PPM Services, Inc. is unique

Wes Driggers literally grew up in the construction business. He started working for his father as a young man of 17. Dad was an old school, no non-sense, do it right Master Carpenter. It was a time when quality counted and craftsmen were proud of their work. Wes continued working with his father and brothers in the construction industry learning every aspect from the best of the best.

Wes went to work as a project manager for another general contractor for the first time when he was 35 years old. That’s when he discovered how valuable his training was. He worked for them for almost 5 years before starting his own business in 1992. He sold out and retired from the contracting business in 2000.

Wes opened W.D. Const. Consulting Services, Inc. not long thereafter providing consulting services to other general contractors all over Florida as well as in other states.

At the urging of others in the industry he developed The PPM construction management system. No one in Florida is offering anything like it.

Now you can take advantage of PPM Services, Inc.
A company with integrity, passionately dedicated to saving you money

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Here are Wes' own words on the basics of how he saves you money

The raw cost of the construction is what it is.

On your behalf I will solicit multiple bids from our database of reliable contractors in every category of work involved in your project. This will include the required items; site work, concrete work, masonry work, steel, etc., etc. We'll select the lowest, responsible bidders and I'll issue subcontracts or purchase orders to them. That takes care of the actual job costs.

Other construction management firms will do the same thing.

But then there is the matter of the CM's overhead & profit or Fee. That's where my firm is so different.

My fee is not based on a percentage of costs. I think it makes more sense for the fee to be based on my actual time involved in the project, plus a small monthly fee once the permit is acquired.

My total combined fees are substantially less than most other contractors.

After we meet and discuss your project, I will prepare a preliminary time line for your project as well as what you can expect my fees to be. I even guarantee that my fees will not exceed a certain amount.

Prior to acquiring the permit, I may be providing many pre-construction services. The scope of these services will vary depending on how far along you are in the planning phase. I will provide estimates, budgets for you to present to your lender, help you find a lender to fund your project, permitting, etc. All of these services are provided on an hourly basis and invoiced monthly. The time line and fee proposal will show you what each month's fees will likely be.

Once I pull the permit, in addition to my hourly fee for my time involved managing the project, I then charge a monthly fee. The amount of this fee will also be provided in advance along with the hourly rate on the time line. Depending on the size and scope of the project, this fee could be anywhere from $2,000 up to $5,000 with most projects being around $3000 - $4000 per month.

The combination of the hourly fees and the monthly fixed fee will again be substantially less than what other contractors will charge you.

HOW I DO IT

You may be wondering how I can possibly make such an offer. That's a fair question and deserves an answer.

To answer that question I need to paint you a scenario. Let's suppose you were considering hiring some large commercial general contracting firm to build your project. The fees you will pay them are pretty substantial. Will you get anything more from them than you will from me? Absolutely not !! In fact, the service you'll get from me will actually be better.

Let's think outside the box for a minute. That large GC firm has an impressive office, office personnel such as estimators, accounting staff, office managers or administrators, project managers, secretary, etc. in addition to the actual licensed contractor, who is typically the owner of the company. The overhead expense they carry each month is a staggering amount of money. The question you should ask yourself is this... do all of those things (that you will be paying for) actually benefit you?

The answer is...NO !! And here's why.

The license holder of that large firm could get rid of every single employee, his office, equipment, vehicles, and everything else and could manage your project all by himself. He doesn't need any of it to build just one project. All the other expenses are for someone else's benefit.

There are two reasons they have all that overhead expense. They have many projects in progress and the license holder could not possible handle them all by himself. Many of the office personnel are dedicated to seeking out new work and getting new contracts. None of these things benefit you one bit.

If you hire that firm, you are going to help pay for all of it. That's why they have to charge a high fee. It has nothing to do with your project. You are helping to fund their cost of managing other owner's projects and helping them cover their cost of going after other contracts.

My overhead is low, I never take on more projects than I can manage. My rates are much lower than the larger firms and the quality of my services are higher.

Another important thing to consider is this. With the large firm you'll likely be assigned a project manager to manage your project. The license holder is generally too busy with the overall management of his company to be very involved in any one project.

When you hire me to build your project, you'll have the license holder, a seasoned professional with 35 years experience, to manage your project.

It gets even better

RISK FACTORS

As the owner, when you hire a general contractor to build your project you face many risks. Your lender will also be very concerned about how to eliminate these risks.

There are two main risk factors at work. One has to do with making sure every sub or supplier gets paid and that no liens are placed on your property. The other has to do with making sure your general contractor doesn't desert the project and leave you hanging.

Sometimes lenders may require the GC to provide a Performance and payment bond to cover these risks. However, not only will you have to pay for the bond which will generally add an additional 1% to your project cost, but it is not a fail safe system. One percent may not sound like much but on a 10 million dollar project that will add $100,000 to your cost.

In most GC contracts, the owner, or lender pays the GC once a month and the GC then pays the subs and suppliers what they are due and keeps the difference for himself.

This system leaves way too much room for problems to arise. The GC may be slow paying subs which could cripple the subs ability to properly perform on your project. If the GC does not pay them they will file a lien.

There have been thousands of GC's through the years that have collected money from the owner or lender and then skipped town abandoning the project without paying anyone. Occasionally you hear about these kinds of stories in the news but it happens a lot more than you may think.

PPM has a better way

With my system, I prepare a payment request each month on your behalf. The lender issues payment to you or they may issue a joint check to you and my company. If so, I endorse the check and give it back to you and you deposit the funds in your account.

Then we sit down once a month and after I've reviewed and approved the sub and supplier invoices, you'll write a joint check to the sub and to my company, I endorse the check and hand it to the sub in exchange for lien waivers.

Most GC's won't do this because they want the money to go into their bank account so you will not see how much profit they are making and where they can earn interest on it until it's dispersed to subs.

Since the money does not flow through my firm, you and your lender are assured that every sub and supplier is getting paid and paid quickly.

This also takes away any incentive to abandon the project. 99.9% of project abandonment is because the GC has collected funds on numerous projects, failed to pay subs and suppliers and runs off with the money. That simply would be impossible with The PPM Services, Inc. system.

Please feel free to calll with any question anytime. We look forward to working for you and saving you time and money on your next project.

Wes Driggers, PPM Services Inc. 813.843.6692