Package 00
What we build
Five packages of work, and an honest statement of the projects this is the right firm for and the projects it is not. That second part is more useful to you than a claim to do everything.
00Packages
Five packages
Preconstruction is 01 deliberately. On this site the buying is the product, and it starts long before there is a drawing to price.
Building the budget and the bid list before there is a drawing to price. This is where a commercial project is actually won or lost, and it is the one phase most owners are never invited into.
- You receive
- Budget by division, a bid list by trade with expected coverage, a levelled scope matrix
Ground-up commercial buildings in the Denver metro — offices, retail, flex and light industrial — bought as about thirty subcontracts and levelled against each other before any of them is awarded.
- You receive
- Full drawing set, schedule of values, levelled subcontracts, closeout package
Fitting out a shell or a second-generation space against a lease date somebody has already signed. Fewer trades than a new building, and proportionally more gaps between them.
- You receive
- Permit set, landlord sign-offs, certificate of occupancy, closeout package
Expanding or rebuilding a building somebody is still working in. The phasing plan is the project, and the gaps are worse because half the scope is against existing construction nobody has opened yet.
- You receive
- Permit set, phasing plan, schedule of values, closeout package
Work for public and institutional owners, where the procurement is public, the bid tabulation is a published document, and the occupancy date is set by somebody else’s calendar.
- You receive
- Bid tabulation, certified payroll, schedule of values, commissioning record, closeout
Typical spans run from first engagement to certificate of occupancy and assume a normal permitting path and a buildable season.
01Sectors
We have not listed sectors, and here is why
Most contractor websites carry a grid of sector tiles — healthcare, education, retail, industrial, hospitality — and most of those grids are aspirational.
A sector list is a claim about experience, and experience is exactly the kind of claim a reader cannot verify from a web page. So rather than print one we cannot evidence here, this site says what its NAICS classification says and no more: commercial and institutional building construction, which is the work described across the five packages above.
If sector experience matters to your selection — and on an institutional project it reasonably might — ask for it directly, with references you telephone yourself. That is a better test than a tile with an icon on it, and it is the test the about page recommends for every claim on this site.
What the classification actually says
- NAICS
- 236220 (2022)
- Title
- Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
- Covers
- New construction, additions, alterations, maintenance and repairs of commercial and institutional buildings
That is the whole of what this site asserts about what kind of work this is. The disclaimer lists everything else it deliberately does not say.
02Fit
When we are the wrong contractor
Worth reading before you invite a bid. The wrong fit costs you a procurement cycle and costs us a bid we should not have submitted.
| Project | Fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A commercial building where the budget is the hard constraint | Right | The buy is where a budget is met or missed, and it is what this firm is organised around |
| An owner who buys construction rarely | Right | Most of the risk sits in a process you have no reason to know about. We will explain it |
| A project with several thin trades | Right | Glazing, fire protection, millwork, steel erection — the packages that need working, not just sending |
| Work against existing construction | Right | Every bid arrives full of condition exclusions, and the gaps between them are the project |
| A single-trade scope | Wrong | Hire the trade directly. A general contractor adds coordination you do not need |
| Residential construction | Wrong | A different trade with different rules. This is commercial and institutional work |
| A project already bid and awarded elsewhere | Wrong | The buying is done. Our usefulness was two months ago, and we will say so |
| An owner who wants the lowest number and nothing else | Wrong | A number with no contingency and three thin trades is cheaper on paper. Somebody will give you one |
The last row is the uncomfortable one and it is the one worth trusting. A number is only comparable to another number if both were bought the same way, and on this site that is not a slogan — it is the arithmetic in the worked example on the budgets page.
03Before you award
Four things worth reading first
These explain how a commercial building is actually bought, which is a different question from what gets built.
Not sure which package you need?
Most owners are not, and it frequently turns out to be preconstruction rather than construction — because the useful work happens before there is anything to build. Describe the building and we will tell you where you actually are.
Pinkard Construction Co. · 9195 W 6th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80215