Pricing
CADViz Ltd Pricing
Unlike many of our competitors, we believe in fairness. We generally don't recommend fixed-price lump sum contracts, as one way or another, it's not going to be fair to one of the parties involved. For example, would it be fair to you if we charged you enough to account for all the worst-case scenarios on your job when your job doesn't necessarily involve drain-bridging, flood plains, overland flow paths, iwi consultation, acoustic reports due to flight path restrictions, heritage overlays, asbestos contamination, or illegal works, just to name a few? We don't think so.
We also don't believe it's necessarily fair to arbitrarily charge a percentage of the value of works. We do use the value of works as a rough indicator of required man-hours sometimes, but generally, it's more complicated than that. You can have very tricky low-value jobs, and our fees need to be a higher proportion of the build cost to simply get it through the council. Likewise, you can have very simple high-value jobs.
So, what do we do, you may ask? We have a finely tuned system to generate a custom proposal of fees based on the elements of your job and the complexity of each element. Our fee proposal effectively becomes a cost cap for the scope of works listed. Should the scope change for any reason, such as client revisions, finding out you need iwi consultation for your project, or any other unforeseen circumstances, then we will require additional time to complete your job. Does that sound fair? We hope so. Our proposal of fees generally has the following stages:
- Existing Conditions
- Concept Design
- Developed Design / Resource Consent
- Detailed Design / Pricing
- Building Consent Documentation
- Construction Issue