My organization is building a new facility.
I am the organizations internal project manager for the IT and special systems of the new construction.
After getting bids finalized I have all SS ready to go.
I have intercom paging, fire evac, A/V, cabling, fiber, switches, UPS's, phones, security cameras, and access control spec'd at
$516k
Overall budget for facility is $6.2mil. I'm getting pushback from the budget committee saying that my side of the project is too expensive.
The entirety of IT for this building start to finish is only 8.32% of the overall budget. I'm being told I need to shave off $200k !!!
I don't know where I'm going to find that amount of shaving.
Is my 8.32% typical of other projects of this size? (keep in mind I've already submitted a very lean budget. I don't over engineer more than about 5-10%, so when I submit a proposal I've already gone back and forth with the vendor several times reducing costs and pulling things out that aren't essential)
I am the organizations internal project manager for the IT and special systems of the new construction.
After getting bids finalized I have all SS ready to go.
I have intercom paging, fire evac, A/V, cabling, fiber, switches, UPS's, phones, security cameras, and access control spec'd at
$516k
Overall budget for facility is $6.2mil. I'm getting pushback from the budget committee saying that my side of the project is too expensive.
The entirety of IT for this building start to finish is only 8.32% of the overall budget. I'm being told I need to shave off $200k !!!
I don't know where I'm going to find that amount of shaving.
Is my 8.32% typical of other projects of this size? (keep in mind I've already submitted a very lean budget. I don't over engineer more than about 5-10%, so when I submit a proposal I've already gone back and forth with the vendor several times reducing costs and pulling things out that aren't essential)