I’m asking my friends, how do you negotiate the design fees for your projects?
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Dear bosses in the engineering area: We are all friends on the road. Let’s talk about it. How do you negotiate prices with design institutes? How can we bring the price to the lowest point? For example, according to the ratio of 4%, it is reduced to 0.5%.
Design it yourself and get stamped by the design institute. Remember, you get what you pay for. Too low cost means low quality
Hahaha, what you said above makes sense. If you can't even pay a little design fee, then what kind of project will you do? Therefore, owners should consider how to incorporate the design institute’s personnel into their projects so that they can truly become a member of the project, as if they are working for themselves. This is the owner’s greatest benefit. If you just focus on the design fee, don’t you know that if it is reduced by 1-2 percentage points, the owner will need to bear the risk of more than 98% of the cost.
The relatively fair price in the world is about 10% of the total cost. Depending on the difficulty, it can sometimes reach 25%, but it is difficult to get below 8% unless the international engineering company goes crazy with the project.
Let me tell you a story. The waste materials we have here are entrusted to a waste disposal company to crush them under supervision, including CDs, and then we pay a certain fee. Later, a Shandong company bid for it and said that it was free of charge, as long as the waste paper was taken away (other companies asked for money but also paper). The general manager of the company said that companies that don't pay for it can't use it, which means that the service quality is not good. In the end, they had to ask for money, but they only provided some more services than others, such as cleaning up in a shorter time.
Design it yourself (that is, do all the work yourself), and get it stamped by the design institute. Our company's technical transformation after its establishment has basically been like this, and the design fee has become a stamping fee.
No matter how much money you pay, how much work you do, the design institute also needs to eat.
You must know that if the design quality is inferior, the owner's investment will not be the same. Design has a much greater impact on costs than the procurement and construction stages.
Looking for a small place, with few design tasks, only 0.5% of the grass-roots team affiliated with the compound is estimated to be too few, not enough for them to hand over
You can ask a private person to design, and you must be a senior person in the industry. Then get it stamped by a design institute, saving money and worry. Worth it
Not to mention what I designed. If you go to a design institute, your bargaining will be too harsh. Compared with international standards, the domestic design ratio is already low, not to mention competition regardless of cost in some cases. If there is no specially designated design institute, it is not difficult to find a suitable one by shopping around and considering the qualification level and price. If it is just for the sake of saving money, then look for someone who accepts private work, and finally take the things to get them stamped. But in this case, you should pay more attention to word of mouth. After all, you can't be careless when it comes to engineering.