How the work is sold
Commissioning support is usually bought by the hour, which means nobody knows what it costs until it is over. These are the bands the work actually falls into, per building, for a Level 3 and Level 4 package.
A submittal set and an asset count is enough to place a scope in one of them and put a fee and a date against it — usually inside a day.
Each band is a written scope with a fixed fee and a committed delivery window. What actually arrives is broken down here.
One generator and its transfer scheme, or a UPS lineup, or a switchboard and its downstream distribution. Pre-functional and functional procedures, the reconciled sequence, and the issues log.
The common one. A complete electrical scope for a single building — generation, distribution, UPS, transfer and metering — reconciled into one sequence that every vendor procedure agrees with.
Includes the Level 5 integrated test framework: step loading, load rejection, paralleling and failure scenarios sequenced so the IST proves something rather than merely completing.
Smaller pieces of the same work, for programs that need one question answered properly rather than a full package.
Fees are quoted against the scope, not published as a list. Every building carries a different asset count, a different vendor mix and a different amount of existing documentation, and a published number would be wrong for most of them. Send the set and the number comes back the same week.
Stated as ratios against the band fee, so there are no surprises in the quote.
| Condition | Effect |
|---|---|
| Paralleling or closed transition Multiple sources negotiating onto a common bus | +15% |
| Medium-voltage scope Above 1 kV, with the protection practice that follows | +10–15% |
| Mixed OEMs in one asset class Two vendors, two formats, one sequence | +10% |
| Phased energization Per phase, where the building comes up in stages | +10% |
| Non-standard script platform Beyond CxAlloy, BlueRithm or Excel | fixed adder |
| Ceiling — adders never exceed 50% of the base fee. | |
The first building in a program carries the template work: the reconciliation, the conventions, the sequence narrative that everything after it inherits. Identical buildings after that price at 60% of the first.
Across a six-building program that is a third off the list total. The saving is real rather than a discount — building two is genuinely less work than building one, and the pricing says so.
Partner and channel arrangements are priced separately. Where a firm resells this work under its own name and carries the client relationship, terms are set with that firm directly.
Travel and site time, test equipment and load banks, and any work requiring a licensed professional engineer sit outside the package fee. They are named in the scope rather than discovered at invoice.
A submittal set and a rough asset count is enough to place the work in a band and put a fee and a date against it — usually within a day, and before anybody commits to anything.