subject: Commercial Moving – The Cold Hard Facts of Selecting an Office Mover [print this page] Commercial Moving The Cold Hard Facts of Selecting an Office Mover
By the time people are ready to interview and then hire a mover, quite often they are burned out from dealing with searching for the "right" building or property, leasing issues, TI contractors, cabling vendors, purchasing of new furniture, new phone systems, upgrading their network, etc. After all of that, hiring a competent office mover can be become an exhausting and daunting task. Hopefully, the information provided below can help you sort through some of the preliminary decision-making. Ensuring you have the Right Mover to begin with is almost 100% of the battle!
When its time to select the mover, quite often companies are "broke" from all of the tasks listed above. Even in these days of moving allowances and incentives from the landlords, the entire process can be quite draining. Note: if you need the name of a broker than can help mitigate some of these "pains" - we know people!. The cost differential between hiring a very good mover and a "price" mover is typically negligible (literally and figuratively); especially when you find out that the "price" mover has not included many services that the better mover considers to be standard. The "price" mover will almost assuredly add these extra costs in at the end.
In a full-blown move - after factoring in all the TI issues, new furniture, new telephone systems, network issues, etc. - the actual cost of the move in the total budget is usually less than 4%.When you start to look at the difference in price between the cheapest and highest "starting" bids that a customer receives, and compare that difference to the total budget, you are almost always looking at a number less than one percent of the total move cost. While a higher price does not guarantee a successful project, the higher price DOES give the moving company flexibility to address almost any concerns or needs the customer has without having to get into yet another price change order negotiation. During the move, you as the customer want people to say "yes" when you need something (perhaps something additional or special) accomplished.
You need your company to be back in business when it's supposed to be back in business....a good mover can make that happen, and make you look good at the same time. Moving is a service industry, there are no "widgets", you need someone working with you that has enough profit in the game to give you the level of service you deserve.
