Home architects Rand Soellner provides Bidding Pricing Negotiating management services if you wish.
These are optional.  These can be provided at any point during the project, but
typically occurs after the completion of the Construction Documents and just prior
to construction. 

Your architect does not actually provide the bids or the prices for your project; that is the job of the licensed contractor(s) who is (are) bidding or otherwise making a pricing proposal to build your project.  Your architect can manage this process for you and help obtain these for you.  You pay for your architect to provide these services; they are not included in any other service and are quite often provided on an hourly basis.  There are many advanatages to having the architect who designed your project be the entity that manages the contractors who are submitting pricing proposals. 

One of the main advantages is that your architect becomes the sole source of knowledgeable information for answering questions.  Your architect also provides a level playing field for all builders, which gives them all the confidence to actually submit a proposal.  Your architect also becomes the information source of questions being asked and answered, insuring that you will come closer to getting what you are paying for than if there are misunderstandings if the architect does not participate in this process.  Most homeowners are not equipped to handle the barrage of questions that builders ask during the bidding of their project and this can also become quite time-consuming of you are otherwise gainfully occupied.  This phase also establishes your architect as your representative in everyone’s mind, in preparation of the next phase: Construction. 

Home architects Rand Soellner can provide you with the following Bidding- Pricing-
Negotiating Services:

- Bidding Pricing Homes:

 Find interested Contractors
  If you have your slate of contractors or have already selected your General
  Contractor, or if you would like our help in finding you possible builders, we can
  and have done this for our clients.
 Solicit interested Contractors
  Obtain the interest of possible contractors to build your project.
 Schedule the Pricing Exercise
  Create a spreadsheet time table for the activities beginning, during and completing
  the pricing.
 Establish requirements for builders
  Indicate the various documentation requested from the builders to ascertain their
  suitability to handle your project.
   Proper licensure
   Insurance types
   References
   Project examples
   Interviews
 Provide Documents for Pricing
  Print & Reproduce our documents for the builders to price.
  Distribute our documents to the buidlers.
 Answer Contractor Questions.
  By phone, e-mail or in-person.
  Copy responses to all participants.
 Obtain Pricing at a specific date and time
 Evalulate Pricing using our spreadsheet analytics, we review the overall pricing and each division price  to ascertain if each number appears reasonable.
 Discuss Results with you, review the pricing results and discuss your options, to establish a logical  direction for your choices.

- Negotiation

 Review with contractors the pricing for your project to arrive at a good choice and value for you.
 We can also review contract forms with your attorney.

Review discounts for certain situations.

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We are home architects, luxury residential architects, custom house designers, and castle planners.  We also are log home architects, mountain home architects, and small house designers.  We provide mansion architecture, healthy home design, and green home analysis.  We are certified by the US DOE-EPA as energy star architects.  Being in the Western North Carolina area, we are Cashiers NC architects and a Highlands North Carolina architect.  We are serve Glenville and Seneca SC.

We provide our services all over the USA and the World, including: Franklin, Sylva, Lake Toxaway, Lake Lure, Lake Hartwell, Lake Lanier, Atlanta GA, Buckhead GA, Brevard NC, Etowah, Asheville, and Charlotte.  We are here to help you obtain your dream house design.

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