Plan & Spec / Hard Bid Mechanical Contracting
Bid-build and public works mechanical scope with the bonding, prevailing wage compliance and submittal discipline those jobs demand.
Plenty of work still comes out as a complete design with a bid date, especially public works. Those projects reward a different set of skills than design-build: reading a specification carefully, bidding the actual scope instead of the assumed one, catching the addenda, submitting approvable products the first time, and running a clean paper trail from award through closeout.
CMI bids plan and spec mechanical work for general contractors, public agencies, school and community college districts, healthcare systems and federal projects. We handle the compliance apparatus these jobs require: bonding, prevailing wage and Davis-Bacon rates, certified payroll, DIR registration, apprenticeship requirements, small and local business participation, submittals and shop drawings, schedule of values, monthly billing and closeout documentation.
We also bid honestly. If a spec has a conflict, an equipment basis of design that will not fit the space, or a sequence that cannot be built, we raise it during bidding or as a clarification rather than burying it and selling it back as a change order later. General contractors keep calling us back because our number holds and our RFIs come early, not because we were the low bid every time.
Scope & capabilities
- Complete plan and spec mechanical bids: HVAC, piping, plumbing, controls and TAB scopes
- Bonding capacity, insurance and prequalification packages
- DIR registration, apprenticeship compliance and labor compliance reporting
- Scheduling input, look-aheads and manpower planning for GC schedules
- Startup, TAB, commissioning support and full closeout documentation
- Public works bidding for agencies, districts and federal projects
- Prevailing wage, Davis-Bacon and certified payroll administration
- Submittals, shop drawings and coordination drawing production
- Change order and RFI management with documented cost and time impacts
The technical envelope
- Contract types
- Lump sum, unit price, task order and IDIQ subcontracts
- Labor compliance
- Prevailing wage, Davis-Bacon, certified payroll, DIR registered
- Bonding
- Bid, performance and payment bonds available
- Self-performed
- Sheet metal, pipefitting, plumbing, controls and startup
- Deliverables
- Submittals, coordination drawings, O&M, as-builts, TAB and training
Facility types
Plan & Spec / Hard Bid — straight answers
- Do you carry bonding for public work?
- Yes. We provide bid, performance and payment bonds and can furnish current bonding capacity and financial prequalification information on request.
- Are you set up for prevailing wage and certified payroll?
- Yes — it is routine for us. We are DIR registered, pay prevailing and Davis-Bacon wage determinations, submit certified payroll on the schedule the agency requires, and meet apprenticeship requirements. Federal and public work has been part of our business for decades.
- Will you bid a project you think is under-designed?
- We will bid it, and we will submit clarifications identifying what we included and what the documents do not resolve. Owners and GCs get burned by contractors who stay quiet during bidding and produce change orders at rough-in. We would rather have the uncomfortable conversation before award.
Get a number you can budget against
We walk the plant before we price it. You get equipment condition, options, phasing and a schedule — not a guess with a contingency wrapped around it.