Scope & quote — Datacenter Worker

01 — How it works

One number. Priced by people who've done the work.

No bidding, no auction, no race to the bottom. We read the scope, price it against what it actually takes, and put the right person on it. You get one number and one accountable party.

Send the scope

Equipment, deliverable, timing, and what documentation you can provide. Three minutes.

We price and match

One business day. You get a fixed price or an hourly rate with an estimate, plus the credentials and relevant hours of the person assigned.

Approve, then pay

Funds held by our payment processor and released when you approve the deliverable. You work with your assigned expert directly throughout.

Already have a budget? Send the number instead of a scope. We'll accept it or tell you what it needs to be, in two business days, with no proposal cycle. How that works →

Why we don't run an auction. Open bidding turns skilled trades into a price contest and drives out exactly the people you want. We price the scope once, pay our experts properly, and carry the accountability ourselves — which is what you're actually buying when the work touches energized gear or a live loop.

02 — Typical ranges

What work like this usually runs.

Ranges, not a rate card. Every scope is priced individually against the work, the timing and who has to do it. Rush, travel and specialized scopes price above these.

Scope	Typical range	Basis	Notes
SME advisory, short form	$375–600/hr	Hourly	Two-hour minimum
Site-specific procedure	$895–2,600	Per document	Multi-path and lineup work at the upper end
Procedure or EHS package	$1,750–6,200	Fixed	Several documents plus the frequency matrix
Asset registry & index	$115/asset	Per asset	Scoped to counts, change-ordered if they move
Commissioning support	$210–335/hr	Hourly	Owner-side or contractor-side, L4–L5
Field deployment crew	$135–195/hr	Hourly, per person	Whips, TCS loops, energization. Travel separate.
Readiness assessment	$30,000–60,000	Fixed	Liquid cooling and operational readiness

Travel, per diem and mobilization are always separate line items and never buried in the rate. Fixed-price scopes are fixed — if the scope moves, that's a written change order before any additional work starts.

03 — What the price covers

One price, one accountable party.

You're not paying a platform fee on top of a contractor rate. You're paying for a scoped deliverable from a firm that carries the insurance, vets the people, and answers for the work.

Vetted

People, not profiles

Chief engineers, CFMs and SMEs we've worked alongside or verified directly.

Insured

E&O and liability

Certificates on request. We're the contracting party, not a referral.

25% / 75%

Deposit, then on approval

25% engagement deposit secures the crew and the calendar. The balance is held by our processor and released when you accept the work.

Fixed

No scope drift

Written change order before any additional work. Never a surprise invoice.

Engagement deposit — 25%, non-refundable. Once a scope is accepted we assign specialists, hold calendar dates, and turn down other work for that window. That cost is incurred whether or not the engagement proceeds, so the deposit is non-refundable from the point work is scheduled. The remaining 75% sits with our payment processor and releases only when you accept the deliverable.

The one exception runs in your favour: if we fail to deliver or cancel the engagement, the deposit is returned in full. You are never charged for our non-performance.

Licensed and accredited, per trade. Every specialist we place or assign holds the licensure and accreditation their discipline requires — electrical and HVACR contractor licenses, PE seals where work requires a seal, NETA and BCxA credentials, and current OSHA and NFPA 70E training. We verify standing before assignment and re-verify annually. Certificates and license numbers on request.

Under what an agency charges, above what an agency pays. We don't carry a recruiting floor, an office, or a sales team. That gap goes to the client on one side and the expert on the other — which is why our people take our work first.

04 — Recent scopes

The kind of work we take on.

Representative engagements. If yours looks like one of these, we've priced it before.

UPS maintenance bypass MOP — 2N lineup

Per document · West Texas · Documentation available

$1,950–3,100

Need a site-specific bypass and return MOP for a 2N UPS configuration ahead of a scheduled battery replacement. One-lines and OEM manuals available under NDA. Must include abort criteria and load verification at each step.

ElectricalMOP2NNDA required

Priced in 1 business day Scope something similar

TCS loop balancing and flow verification — 4 halls

Hourly · ERCOT West · 3–4 week engagement

$135–180/hr

Direct-to-chip deployment. Need per-branch flow and volume verification with documented results before IT load. Crew of two to three, per diem and travel separate. Badging through the GC.

Liquid coolingFieldTravelISN required

Crew of 2–3 · mobilized in 5 days Scope something similar

Fire ITM frequency matrix build — operating colo

Fixed task · Remote · 2 week turnaround

$3,400

Build the ITM schedule from our installed systems and adopted code editions, cited per row, in a format our CMMS planner can load. Insurer audit in Q1 is driving the date.

EHSRemoteCompliance

Delivered in 2 weeks Scope something similar

Representative scopes. Send yours below and we'll price it against the same basis.

05 — Get started

Send a scope, or join the bench.

I need work done

Send a scope

Free. You get a price and the assigned expert's credentials within one business day.

I do the work

Join the bench

We bring you scoped, priced work — you never bid, never negotiate, and never chase an invoice. Identity is disclosed to the client only when an engagement forms.