I'm going to be bidding on a small Fire Alarm job soon. I've worked as an installer on a number of projects, but I have never done a bid before. I'll be submitting myproposal from a set of Simplex Grinell plans that will be forthcoming. I pretty much just plan on putingt in material and labor for pulling the cable and installing the devices according to the plans. Does anyone have any suggestions on other things to look out for on a job such as this?
yeah, you are selling labor, conduit, and cable.
things to look out for? yeah. simplex.
simplex is notorious for shipping short. i had the third floor of a hospital i did in simplex,
they shorted about a third of the devices, and the CPU....!
this, on a fast track with a $5k per day liquidated damages clause written in for the EC.
is it a hospital or health care? if so, and you have to deal with oshpod, take your number
you come up with, and triple it.
i'm not kidding. i'm really not. the simplex job above was a hospital, and i drew up what
i wanted to install in autocad, my as builts as it were, and submitted it, so i installed
my as builts instead of some dorky EE doodle.
oshpod will MAKE you put junction boxes where shown on drawing symbolically.
i also did a main runner down the hallways, with a 1" emt conduit, with a 5 SD box
every five feet, and 1/2" drops branching off to the devices. then, you pull a full house
of cables down the main spine, and pull loops out to each device, with no splices
in the main boxes at all, starting at the end of the hallway, and working back
towards the wire cart.
good luck