What RCDD design work costs — and how the number gets made.
We don’t publish a rate card, and here’s the honest reason: scope drives the fee, and pretending otherwise produces either padded numbers or change-order surprises. What you get instead is a fixed-fee proposal from a short scoping call — the number you accept is the number you pay.
Six things that actually drive an ICT design fee.
When you know what the fee responds to, you can shape the scope before the proposal — and you'll recognize a padded quote from anyone, including us.
Scope breadth
Drop counts, telecom rooms, buildings, and systems in play. A single-TR redesign and a campus OSP refresh are different animals, and the fee tracks the animal.
Deliverable depth
A peer-review markup costs a fraction of a full construction-document package with specs, BOM, and standards traceability. We scope to what the project actually needs — not the biggest package we can sell.
Schedule compression
Normal-course work is priced as such. Compressing weeks into days is possible and honest about costing more — and we will tell you when the deadline is achievable before taking the fee.
Coordination load
How many trades, consultants, and AHJ touchpoints the design has to be reconciled with. Coordination is real design work; it gets scoped, not smuggled in as change orders.
Construction-phase involvement
RFI response, submittal review, and live video walks during construction can be in the base fee or a separate CA scope — your call at proposal time.
Revision allowance
The proposal states what review cycles are included. Owner-driven scope changes are change orders — defined ones, priced before the work, never surprises on an invoice.
Three steps, no mystery.
Scoping call
Thirty minutes, free. Bring drawings, a spec, or just the problem. You’ll usually hear a verbal range before the call ends.
Fixed-fee proposal
Written scope, deliverables, milestones, and the number. What’s included is itemized; what would be a change order is named in advance.
Milestone billing
Payments track deliverables through the client portal. No hour-tracking theater, no end-of-month surprises.
The money questions, answered straight.
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Get your number.
One scoping call. A real fixed fee, in writing, usually with a verbal range before we hang up.