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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Mark It Up!

Rory Woolsey

“ What are the” appropriate” markups for overhead, profit and contingency when budgeting facilities construction projects?” Beyond this, the installing contractor’s overhead(s) and profit will need to be added. Overhead: Overhead is the markup for the general contractor’s home office overhead.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Costing Construction

Rory Woolsey

The first crisis will occur when the contractor bids are greater than the budget estimate. Bare is exactly that; it is the bare cost of the direct activities less any mark ups for labor burden, taxes, bond, overhead and profit. All direct costs are then adjusted to include home office overhead and profit for the installing contractor.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Losing Your Shirt.

Rory Woolsey

A project cost should also include the indirect costs such as site specific overhead (indirectly attributable to all the project direct costs and can be 5% to 15% of project cost), home office overhead, profit, bond, sales taxes and even certain contingencies.