Fixed-Price or Time-and-Material Demolition

DSI works with GCs, owners, and project managers to structure billing in whatever format fits your project and accounting requirements — fixed-price lump sum or time-and-material.

Fixed-price contracts give you certainty for budgeting. T&M hourly is right for projects with undefined scope, change-order-heavy environments, or when you need to put boots on the ground fast without waiting for a formal estimate.

A lump sum contract sets one price for a defined scope. It gives owners and GCs budget certainty and puts the production risk on the subcontractor. It works best when the drawings, quantities, access and schedule are clear enough to price accurately.

• Best for: defined demolition, removal and cutting scopes with good drawings
• You get: one number for budgeting and a clear scope of work
• Watch for: unknown conditions such as buried footings or unknown slab thickness, which become change orders

A time and material contract bills the actual labor hours, equipment time and materials at agreed rates. It is the right fit when the scope can't be fully defined in advance, when work is driven by changes in the field, or when you need a crew on site quickly without waiting for a formal estimate.

• Best for: undefined scope, change-order work, emergencies and on-call crews
• You get: speed and flexibility, paying only for what is used
• Controls: daily tickets signed by your superintendent, and a not-to-exceed amount when you need a ceiling

Some scopes are priced per unit: per core hole by diameter and depth, per linear foot of saw cut, per load hauled. Unit prices suit work where the type of work is known but the final quantity isn't, such as core drilling hole schedules that keep growing.

• Clear drawings and quantities: fixed price
• Known work, uncertain quantity: unit price
• Unknown conditions or fast start: time-and-material, with a not-to-exceed if needed
• Mixed projects: a fixed price for the defined scope plus T&M rates for extras

We will recommend a structure when we review your scope, and we can price it more than one way.

1. Drawings, a marked-up plan or photos of the work
2. Location, access and working-hour limits
3. Schedule and phasing
4. Whether haul-off, bins, scanning and cleanup are in our scope
5. Whether the project is prevailing wage public works

Send it to our estimating team or call (951) 737-2077. We respond within one business day.

DSI provides fixed-price and hourly work from our Riverside yard across the Inland Empire, including Corona, Ontario, San Bernardino, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Moreno Valley, Temecula, Jurupa Valley, and on larger projects in Southern California, the High Desert, Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, the Central Valley, Northern California. See all California service areas.

Call (951) 737-2077 or send your scope for an estimate; we respond within one business day.