Yes, it is too your client and I am not asking you to cover my butt I requesting you do your job. Now if your contract with your client puts this beyond your scope perhaps you will need to get an extra to do it.
I have no idea how things work where you are, but I am pretty clear on the realities here and often the engineering firms client is our client as well and even when there is a GC between us we have a relationship with the client. They look to us as installers and they look to the engineer / designer to do the design.
And that would be the last time you worked for the clients we work with.
it is YOUR job to establish construction means/methods
mine is to spec and size, establish quality level
keep you honest
if we had say 8 elecs bidding
and only 1 asked about something like this we would hope he was not low lol
and assume the others knew the work
We seldom issue a gc contract that includes elec/mech/plumb
in fact law requires 4 contracts for any public money
prevent collusion
gives us more control
lowers cost, no gc mark-up
we still lay project facilities, scheduling and some coord on the gc
And that is why my clients always come back
had a rep with contractors essy to work with
but yet very low co percentage
always came in at/below engineers estimate/budget
I lkked negotiated work where I could pick the contractors
not alot of it though in public work
so every once in a while you'ld get a bum who could not hang a 350 lb xfmr
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