Pricing up eicr and pat

[Thomas123]

I've been asked to give a price per circuit for completing an eicr on a medium sized food factory and also a price per item for in service inspection and testing. The problem is I'm new to pricing as I've only ever been employed.What do you guys normally charge? £15-20 per circuit? Do you charge per board as well? The firm I work for charge per circuit but charge more for distribution circuits to boards so basically every board will have a set charge for testing it and cable feeding it plus the circuits it supplies. I have no idea what they charge as it is all hush hush, would this pricing structure work for a one man band?It will be roughly 500+ items to pa test. I would probably do about 100 a day roughly. I'd want £250 a day for putting up with pat, but do you think £2.50 is a bit much for that quantity?Basically I have no experience pricing my own work, I don't want to over price and lose the work but also I'm not working for nothing either. This trade is devalued enough as it is. I bet they will phone me up and say they got their painter to do the pat, and he was that good that he done it all in one day.

 

[telectrix]

your estimates are spot on, but will you get the pat at £2.50 per item? i'd be inclined to go for £1.50 ish per item. there will be quite a lot of IT equipment which may just require a visual, so swings and roundabouts.

 

[Thomas123]

your estimates are spot on, but will you get the pat at £2.50 per item? i'd be inclined to go for £1.50 ish per item. there will be quite a lot of IT equipment which may just require a visual, so swings and roundabouts.

I thought it might be a bit expensive. I suppose I could drop, how much would you charge per distribution circuit?

 

[telectrix]

i'd have a good look at the site first. will they allow you to power down when you have to? you may need to work around them, do some out of hours. estimate the time needed and x your hourly rate.

 

[Thomas123]

The factory is days regular, so it works a treat for me, I will go there after work and on weekends. But they don't know that

 

[supasparxs]

I don't mean to be the barer of bad news, but the pricing is expensive compared to the company I work on the cards for.

The charge £0.75 per PAT test (work done by PAT testers not Electricians)
and £7 per EICR circuit

writing our reports we all have Meger testers, laptops with Amptec 2012 and we are are suppose to submit our reports within 24 hours of finnishing the job.

I agree £15-20 per circuit would be my normal pricing, but if you are testing full time and get familiar with the software there are short cuts.
such as using reg. 612.3.3 Basically doing a global IR test, if the test passes globally tyhen you don't need to carryout the test on every circuit.

 

[markc123]

£7 per circuit, wtf.

I know its the firm you work for so out of your hands, but imo that is stupidly low. Tell ure boss he is slutting himself lol.

 

[supasparxs]

It's a PLC company,
They work on small margins and are aiming to capture a large market share

 

[markc123]

Sounds about right, basically - they're greedy and don't want anyone else in the area to work lol.

 

[Thomas123]

It's a PLC company,
They work on small margins and are aiming to capture a large market share

Basically the firm your working for is ruining the industry