Bidding earthwork and concrete on the same job: pricing, risk, and the GC question

Self-perform contractors who do both scopes leave money on the table by bidding them like they're separate jobs. They're not.

If you self-perform both earthwork and concrete on the same project, you have a structural advantage over the GC who's hiring two subs. You also have a structural temptation: bid each scope as if the other isn't there.

The earthwork crew that grades your foundation pads is the same crew that's going to be paid to wait if your concrete forecaster underestimated the cycle. Bid the sequence, not the scopes.

Bedrock's bid pipeline lets you tag both scopes against the same project, with a shared address, GC, and due date — so when you're rolling forward, you see the job and not two duplicate cards.

A 320 excavator on the dirt scope is the same machine you'll use to backfill your foundation perimeter. If you load full equipment hours into both bids, you're double-charging the GC and inviting them to value-engineer one scope away.

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