Independent quantity surveys and cost estimating for utility, wastewater, and site work — for federal agencies and design teams, the contractors bidding the job, and the owners paying for it.
Illustrative profile, 1,160 LF of roadway reconstruction over a sanitary sewer — roughly 3,200 tons of plant mix. One corridor, three trades, and the quantities have to agree with each other.
SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS
A contracting officer, a bidder, and a buyer each need the same quantities to hold up — for completely different decisions.
FEDERAL AGENCIES AND A-E TEAMS
Independent quantity surveys supporting government cost estimates, and biddability and constructability review that finds plan-spec conflicts and bid-schedule gaps before solicitation rather than after bid opening.
CONTRACTORS
Quantities you can price — earthwork volumes, site balance, and a takeoff organized around how you'll build the job rather than how it was drawn. Delivered in your own estimating system, not ours.
OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS
A site that doesn't balance can cost more to prepare than the land cost to acquire. We model the grade before you're committed and show what moving the material involves.
Most clients buy one phase, not all four. The work is built so you can start anywhere in it and stop where your own people pick up.
Biddability and constructability review turns up plan-spec conflicts, quantity gaps, and bid-schedule ambiguities before the package goes out. Independent quantity surveys in support of government cost estimates, and cost opinions that tell an owner whether a site is worth pursuing at all.
Plan room screening, takeoff, quote solicitation and leveling for the bid, addenda tracked and quantities re-issued, bid form assembled. Delivered inside your estimating system so nothing gets re-keyed on bid day.
The bid was built on quotes taken under a deadline. At buyout they get leveled again, this time against the awarded scope — so every line carried in the estimate actually gets bought, and the gaps nobody priced surface now instead of becoming change orders you eat.
GPS and machine control models built from the design, and monthly quantity verification against the base model — so pay applications reflect what actually moved rather than what someone estimated moved.
What we don't do is run your job. No superintendence, no scheduling, no submittals, no project management. The work stops at quantities, models, and the numbers that come off them — which is exactly why it doesn't compete with the people already doing the rest.
THE DELIVERABLE
Every quantity on this site comes off a model you can look at. Cut in magenta, fill in cyan, and a number you can trace back to a specific piece of ground.
Deliverables, not reports about deliverables. Work is delivered inside your existing estimating system wherever possible — you shouldn't have to adopt our tooling to get our numbers.
Quantities that reflect how the job actually gets built, documented well enough to defend when somebody asks where the number came from.
Red Clay Group comes out of time spent in the field and in the office of a civil contractor — earthwork, underground utilities, and infrastructure — alongside six years as a U.S. Army officer.
We don't design and we don't stamp. We price what other people draw, and we do it carefully.
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Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle, including Fort Novosel, Moody AFB, Tyndall AFB, and USACE Mobile District. Remote support nationwide.
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Spencer Rapp, Owner
1015 Hardy Rd, Dothan, AL 36301