What Our Price Includes
We only work with fixed-price contracts. Staff-hours are used to calculate the price. The Budget is the amount of required staff-hours multiplied by the price of one staff-hour.
The price per staff-hour includes direct expenses, indirect expenses, and our profit. Depending on the size of the project and cost of technical specialists' efforts price per hour may vary in interval between $25 and $60.
Direct expenses include:
- Expenses for technicians/suppliers;
- Salary and bonuses of project manager;
- Our expenses for project management software development;
- Equipment rental;
- Local and state taxes.
Indirect expenses include:
- Corporate QA services;
- Process improvement;
- Free defect removal services;
- Mistakes in estimates that may result in project cost overrun;
- Management reserve.
You approve a Budget as the fixed amount of staff-hours and monetary value required to complete the project. The Budget is never changed if scope of the work is not changed.