A firm organised around the buy

A commercial general contractor subcontracts most of what it sells. That is not a criticism of the trade; it is the structure of the trade, and it means the firm you hire is doing something other than building.

It is buying. Thirty-odd subcontracts, each solicited, chased, received, compared against bids that are not comparable, and awarded with the boundaries written down. The quality of that work decides what your building costs far more than anything that happens with a hammer.

So this firm is organised around it, and this website is about it. Not because procurement is glamorous — it is the least glamorous thing in construction — but because it is where an owner’s money actually goes and almost nobody explains it to them.

What we actually do for you

Build the bid list early, during design rather than two weeks before bid day, so the firms worth having have capacity to bid.

Tell you which trades are thin, before you are committed, and what the four legitimate options are on each one. The coverage register publishes the starting point.

Read every exclusions block against the trades on either side of it, which is the step that finds the scope nobody bought, and which takes an afternoon and saves roughly ten times what it costs.

Close the gaps in writing before award, with the scope matrix attached to each subcontract, so a disagreement at month seven is settled by a document rather than by a memory.

And then build it, which by that point is the straightforward part.

Who the work is for

Owners of commercial buildings and businesses in the Denver metro who need a building, an expansion or a substantial remodel and have no in-house construction department. Developers and property managers who have bought construction before and are specifically trying to avoid the change orders that come from nobody having bought the thing between two trades. Tenants with a lease date already signed. And lenders, brokers and boards who need a number before there is a drawing.

We also do institutional and public work, where the procurement is public and the bid tabulation is a published document — which makes it the one setting where the argument on this site is already conceded.