Pricing commercial landscape work
How to build a price you can stand behind: rates, preliminaries, overhead, margin and contingency.
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How do you price the landscape maintenance or establishment period in a tender?
Read the maintenance specification for the period length, visit frequency, tasks, watering, plant replacement obligations and handover criteria.
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How do you add overhead and margin to a landscape tender?
Build the direct cost of the job first: measured work plus preliminaries. Add overhead recovery at a rate worked out from your own accounts, then a contingency sized to the risk...
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How do you quote softscape vs hardscape in a commercial landscape tender?
Quote softscape and hardscape as separate trade sections in the bill of quantities.
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What preliminaries go into a commercial landscape tender?
Preliminaries are the costs of running a commercial landscape job that do not belong to any single measured item: supervision, site establishment, mobilisation for each stage,...
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How to price a commercial landscape tender
Pricing a commercial landscape tender means measuring every item off the drawings in a quantity takeoff, applying current supply and labour rates to each one, then adding...