Tony,
We don't do this work, however it would be based on your cost for labor and materials @ 1 week for two men for 12 months.
I'd say if you are charging $60.00 per man hr. that equates to $240. per man per week, @ 2 men = $480. per week @ 1 week per month X 12 months = $5760. + materials. Other variables that come into play is travel time and profit. Thank you.
Terry,
Good call on my competition's man-hour rate.
Here's the way it works out.
Industry standard is approximately 1 minute per filter. We usually hit .65 minutes per filter in a facility like this.
This facility has 4900 filters.
That's 4900 minutes or about 80 hours 12 times per year = 2 guys -avg 1 wk per month.
980 man-hours total @ $60/hr = $58,800
Filter cost approx. $60,000 (at absolute maximum)
$118,000 is what the bid should be and that is only $740 away from the bid as it was awarded 2 years ago.
$121,548 is the actual amount of the contract with the City of Las Vegas for this year.
If we can keep our normal .65 minutes per filter we can underbid the competition by 10% and still make $77.00 per man-hour vs their $62.00.
I probably won't be able to circumvent the "time in business" requirement for this type work till next year though.
What I might do is sell the patented filter that I distribute to my competition which will allow them faster service and more $$ per man-hour.
There's more to the story of why my competition would want to buy my filter but I can't say more about it online. PM me if you want to know more about that.
I actually would rather sell the filters to my competition because logistically its the most sensible thing to do.
Good guess, just a little underestimating on the amount of filters. A very loose, general rule of thumb is 1 filter for every 600 square feet in this climate. That comes out to 5333 which means some of the building is probably not air conditioned.