We have walked sites with hundreds of commercial GCs.
Most of the time, we are not the first landscaper they have hired on a project. We are the second. Or the one called in the week before CO when the first crew stopped showing up. Each one came in cheaper than the last. Each one cost more than the last.
By the time a PM calls us, the conversation is rarely about plants. It is about a slipping CO, a draw that did not clear, and an owner who wants to know what happened to the schedule everyone signed off on in February.
It does not have to go this way. The first landscaper can be the right landscaper.
That is the whole reason we wrote this. The exact questions we wish every PM had asked the company before us. The RFP language that would have prevented the change orders. The way to read a landscape proposal so you know what you are actually buying before the trees show up half-dead.
Read it before your next bid award. Even if that decision is not us.