Delivery Method
General Contracting
General contracting is EWB’s founding discipline: taking a complete set of documents and delivering the building — coordinating trades, schedule, quality, safety, and cost from pad turnover to grand opening. We work both negotiated and competitively hard-bid.
Fit
When this method is the right call
- › Documents are complete and the owner wants competitive price certainty
- › A negotiated relationship exists and the owner wants the same team on the next one
- › Program work: rollouts and remodels where the playbook is proven and speed of award matters
- › Public or institutional work requiring competitive procurement
Advantages
- ✓ Price certainty on complete documents
- ✓ Forty-three years of trade relationships in the markets we serve
- ✓ Self-perform backup on schedule-critical finish trades
- ✓ A closeout reputation that turns hard-bid clients into negotiated ones
Approach
How Eleven Western runs it
Hard bids without hard feelings
We bid to win and build what we bid. Much of our negotiated work started as a hard-bid project delivered without contractor-driven change orders.
The buyout is the project
Scope reviews before award, with Project Executive oversight of every buyout negotiation — gaps found at the table cost less than gaps found in the field.
Field leadership with tenure
Superintendents who have run their building type before, backed by self-perform crews on the trades that most often slip at the end of a job.
Process
What to expect, in order
Competitive pricing or negotiated proposal on complete documents
Scope reviews and trade awards with PX oversight
Master schedule, weekly OAC cadence run by the PM, documented QA/QC
Punch, TCO/CO, training, O&M turnover — on the same schedule discipline
One call; the team that built it responds
Who does what
Roles & responsibilities
| Party | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Owner | Provides complete documents; makes decisions on the contractual cadence |
| Architect / consultants | Construction administration under the owner contract; RFIs and submittals on agreed clocks |
| EWB | Total construction delivery: trades, schedule, quality, safety, cost, closeout |
| Subcontractors | Competitively bought, scope-reviewed, and managed to the master schedule |
Risks & how we control them
⚠ Document gaps surfacing as change orders
Pre-bid document review flags gaps before pricing, and our change-order record on hard-bid work is the proof it works.
⚠ Low-bid subcontractors failing mid-job
Prequalification and scope review before award; bid coverage tracked so awards are never desperation picks.
Compare
Other delivery methods
Preconstruction
Budgets, constructability, logistics, and value engineering grounded in 43 years of cost history — the discipline every other delivery method stands on.
Design Assist
EWB joins during design development to price in real time, resolve constructability before bid day, and lock long-lead packages early.
Design-Build
One contract, one team, one number — EWB holds the construction risk and teams with design partners from concept through keys.
Talk through general contracting on your project
A Project Executive — not a call center — reviews every inquiry the same day.