Construction Estimating Services in Tennessee

Separate Price of Work from Price of Time and labor burden

STREAM's December 2024 Modification Procedures distinguish Price of Work, Price of Time and Calculation of Labor Burden forms. They call for raw hourly labor amounts and separately calculated burden, rather than a single billable rate.

Send contractor-approved wage and benefit inputs plus the required forms. Keep measured material, crew hours, equipment and any time-extension basis in separate cost rows. Check whether travel, lodging or tools are already carried in project costs before adding them through a loaded labor factor. Contract limits and entitlement are decided by the responsible parties; the estimate supplies transparent cost support without inventing statewide rates or markup percentages.

Tennessee Department of General Services — STREAM: official reference

Allow for the contractor's specified commissioning participation

STREAM's mechanical/control commissioning section identifies functional-performance testing and test instrumentation as part of the commissioning package.

Provide the incorporated commissioning section, equipment list, controls points and responsibility schedule. Identify specified startup, calibration, test attendance and documentation effort beside installed equipment quantities. Compare a supply/startup vendor quote with the additional field participation required by the contract. Commissioning specialists perform and accept tests; estimating only quantifies and prices the scope supplied, and does not certify building performance.

Tennessee Department of General Services — STREAM: official reference

Keep investigation information distinct from priced abatement scope

STREAM's hazardous-material-data section describes a design-purpose investigation report as outside the contract documents and available for bidder review through the designer.

Send the report, issued abatement design, demolition limits and the specialist's pricing assumptions. Measure only the defined removal/reinstatement scope and label unknown quantities explicitly. A reference report is not a complete abatement specification or proof that every concealed condition has been measured. Later issued findings can change demolition, disposal and restoration quantities; obtain specialist direction rather than asking an estimator to diagnose hazardous materials.

Tennessee Department of General Services — STREAM: official reference

Prepare the Tennessee estimate package

Revised scope and required change-pricing forms

Separate quantity changes from time-related support.

Raw wages, crew hours and approved burden inputs

Avoid hidden or duplicate costs inside loaded rates.

Equipment/startup/testing responsibility schedule

Identify vendor and field commissioning participation.

Investigation report and issued abatement design

Distinguish reference information from measured specialist scope.

Supplier quotes, addenda and restoration drawings

Trace changed material, disposal and reinstatement quantities.

Specify the returned breakdown

Agree Excel trade quantities with separate work, labor-burden and time-support rows where requested. Equipment installation and specified test participation can have different subtotals. Priced revisions should list deleted/added quantities and distinguish a quote update from an issued scope change. Public forms are cost-support inputs, not a claim of STREAM appointment. Complexity, specialist gaps and revision count affect fee and delivery.

Can a loaded Tennessee contractor rate fill every STREAM labor field?

Provide the contract-required raw wage and separately supported burden basis. Reconcile equipment, travel and project overhead separately where requested; the estimator does not determine reimbursement entitlement or create a wage rate.

Does a Tennessee hazardous-material report establish all demolition quantities?

No. Send the issued specialist scope and removal/restoration limits as well as the reference report. Unknown conditions remain explicit assumptions or agreed allowances until the responsible professionals define them.