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Outsourced fire sprinkler design

Your design queue is full. Ours is the overflow.

Send plans, get fabrication-ready shop drawings and NFPA 13 hydraulic calculations back from US-based NICET-certified designers. The rate card is on this site, so you can price design into a bid without a phone call and without waiting on a quote.

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Minimum project fee $1,750.00. 2 revision rounds included. Taking work in 8 states.

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Design capacity is the constraint

The fire sprinkler designer shortage is not a hiring problem you can solve inside a bid cycle. It shows up as declined invitations and slipped submittal dates.

1 in 3
sprinkler contractors turn down bid invitations because the design queue is full.
6 weeks
is a common wait for an in-house design slot during a busy season.
2 to 1
is the rate at which experienced designers leave the trade against new ones entering it.

How a project runs

  1. Step 1

    Send plans

    A share link to the architectural set is enough to start.

  2. Step 2

    Scope confirmed

    Within 4 business hours, with conforming projects locked at rate-card pricing.

  3. Step 3

    We design

    Shop drawings and hydraulic calculations, drawn to be fabricated from.

  4. Step 4

    You submit

    A submittal package assembled for the authority having jurisdiction.

See the full sequence and what you get

Published pricing

Design work in this trade is quoted case by case after a phone call. We publish the card instead. Rate-card pricing applies to conforming projects, confirmed within 4 business hours of receiving plans.

The calculator on the pricing page produces the same number we invoice, itemized, in about a minute.

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Rate schedule, in part

REV 0 — ISSUED FOR BIDDING
Design fee per square foot for light and ordinary hazard, by total project square footage.
Per SF≤ 15,00015,001 – 50,00050,001 – 150,000> 150,000
Light$0.14$0.11$0.09$0.07
Ordinary$0.18$0.14$0.11$0.09

Minimum project fee $1,750.00. See the full rate card for extra hazard, storage, modifiers and add-ons.

If you run the design department

We are not here for your job. We are here for the third and fourth concurrent project your team cannot take this month. Your designers keep the work worth keeping — the complex jobs, the accounts with history, the buildings they know. We take the overflow that would otherwise be declined.

You stay the reviewer. Nothing goes out under your name that you have not seen.

Capabilities
  • CertNICET-certified designers
  • ReviewPE review available in select states
  • InsuredProfessional liability coverage
  • OnshoreWork performed in the United States

Text badges only. We do not publish client names, logos, project counts, or testimonials.

Price your next bid with a real number

Outsourced fire sprinkler design with published pricing. No quote request, no discovery call.

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