Our small five-person A/E firm would like to submit a proposal to provide a five-year Facilities Master Plan for a New Mexico mid-sized school district which has ten school campuses from elementary through high school to expand our A/E/P professional services - we design schools and other public buildings and base our fees on a percentage of construction cost as most firms do - we now have a Principal Architectural Planner on staff with an extensive architectural and civil design background so we feel confident that we can handle this project as this planner has a degree in Community & Regional Planning and a Masters in Public Administration - he will work with our architect staff on that portion of the AutoCAD/Rivet work - these are existing schools so the pricing model used for new construction doesn't work - it is understood there is much public meeting time as well as facility user surveys - we will laser survey all the schools and this goes into Revit for 3D animations and these drawings are now the referenced building documents for the many layers of administrative planning work that go into Facilities Master Plans - the high-definition surveying (HDS) and CAD work is about $10K per school as a known - the RFP is requesting a flat fee and I am thinking $26K per school - I would appreciate your thoughts on the reasonableness of this per-school fee structure from those that have completed one of these school district's facilities master plans for existing campuses - Thank you ...
sameolddoctor
Apr 18, 22 2:53 pm
26k seems really low, have you factored in the number of hours X personnel x hourly fee?
Chad Miller
Apr 18, 22 5:00 pm
If each school campus is say 120,000 sf
$26,000 fee at $100 / hr = 260 hours each school or roughly $0.17 per sf of work.
Our small five-person A/E firm would like to submit a proposal to provide a five-year Facilities Master Plan for a New Mexico mid-sized school district which has ten school campuses from elementary through high school to expand our A/E/P professional services - we design schools and other public buildings and base our fees on a percentage of construction cost as most firms do - we now have a Principal Architectural Planner on staff with an extensive architectural and civil design background so we feel confident that we can handle this project as this planner has a degree in Community & Regional Planning and a Masters in Public Administration - he will work with our architect staff on that portion of the AutoCAD/Rivet work - these are existing schools so the pricing model used for new construction doesn't work - it is understood there is much public meeting time as well as facility user surveys - we will laser survey all the schools and this goes into Revit for 3D animations and these drawings are now the referenced building documents for the many layers of administrative planning work that go into Facilities Master Plans - the high-definition surveying (HDS) and CAD work is about $10K per school as a known - the RFP is requesting a flat fee and I am thinking $26K per school - I would appreciate your thoughts on the reasonableness of this per-school fee structure from those that have completed one of these school district's facilities master plans for existing campuses - Thank you ...
26k seems really low, have you factored in the number of hours X personnel x hourly fee?
If each school campus is say 120,000 sf
$26,000 fee at $100 / hr = 260 hours each school or roughly $0.17 per sf of work.
That seems really, really, low.