Price checkDrilled Shafts & CaissonsPer LB

Reinforcing cage, furnish & set (or set only)

What bidders priced on like-for-like public pay items, from public agency bid tabulations restated to 2026 dollars and a typical job, against ESC’s published rate as a general contractor carries it.

1 published rate
Price book rev 1 · valid through Dec 13, 2026
How the comparison works

Furnish, fabricate and set

+25%

ESC’s rate as a GC carries it, against the median public bid

Furnish, fabricate and set: ESC’s rate as a GC carries it is $3.36/LB — +25% vs the median public bid, and below 14% of 26 public bids on 6 lettings (2013–2024).

Limited evidence: 6 lettings
Bids all years
New England agencies
Restated to 2026 dollars

Middle half of bids
Median bid
Typical low bid
ESC rate, as a GC carries it (gold rule: our low–high range)

ESC published rate: $3.05/LB; Range $3.05–3.25
As a GC carries it: $3.36/LB; Published rate +10% · $3.36–3.58
Median public bid: $2.68/LB; Recent lettings count more; each letting once
Middle half of bids: $2.19–2.89/LB; 25th to 75th percentile
Typical low bid: $2.17/LB; Median of each pay line’s lowest bid
Pay lines where ESC is under even the lowest bid: 0 of 7; ESC’s carried rate below every bid on the line

Price book note: Shop-fabricated cage delivered with spacers, set in the shaft. Per LB of cage steel.

This rate in the price book

01 · The field

Every public bid

Each dot is one bidder’s price on one public pay line for this work: 26 bids on 6 lettings, 2013–2024. Every price is restated to 2026 dollars and a typical job size, so it compares like for like with ESC’s published rate. Point at or focus a dot for its year, agency and rank; the other bids on its pay line are ringed.

Public bid
Older lettings fainter
Middle half of bids
Median bid
Typical low bid
ESC as a GC carries it (gold rule: low–high)

n = 26 bids · 6 lettings · 7 pay linesSource: public agency bid tabulations

Show all 26 bids

02 · Time

Over time

Public bid
Year’s weighted median
ESC as a GC carries it

Each dot is one bid, placed by the year its letting opened. Every price is restated to 2026 dollars and a typical job, so a price bid years ago and one bid last season compare like for like. Ink ticks: each year’s weighted median, where the year has at least 3 bids.

n = 26 bids · 6 years with bidsSource: public agency bid tabulations

Show the numbers

03 · Pay lines

Pay line by pay line

Every public pay line behind this rate. No bidder, project, contract or town is shown: a line is a year, an agency, a printed quantity, a count of bidders and prices.

ESC’s carried rate would have been the lowest price on 0 of 7 pay lines.

Every public pay line for Furnish, fabricate and set, newest first: year, agency, printed quantity, bidders, and the lowest, median and highest bid restated to 2026 dollars, with where ESC’s rate as a GC carries it would have ranked.
Year	Agency	Quantity	Bidders	Low	Median	High	ESC would have ranked
2024	NHDOT	4,300 LB	2	$2.09	$2.39	$2.69	#3of 3
2023	NHDOT	425,000 LB	2	$2.87	$3.94	$5.02	#2of 3
2021	NHDOT	71,359 LB	4	$2.41	$2.51	$2.81	#5of 5
2021	NHDOT	47,694 LB	4	$2.37	$2.46	$2.77	#5of 5
2018	NHDOT	51,316 LB	4	$2	$2.60	$3.10	#5of 5
2016	NHDOT	6,500 LB	3	$1.99	$2.19	$2.19	#4of 4
2013	NHDOT	68,495 LB	7	$2.18	$2.77	$3.28	#8of 8

Newest first · 7 of 7 pay lines

Low, median and high are restated to 2026 dollars and a typical job; the quantity is as printed. The strip shows each bid on the line (dots), its median (ink tick) and ESC’s rate as a GC carries it (diamond), on one scale for every line. “ESC would have ranked” counts ESC as one more bidder on the line.

04 · Agencies

By agency

The same comparison inside each agency’s own lettings.

Furnish, fabricate and set by agency: lettings, bids, median bid, the field of bids against ESC’s rate as a GC carries it, ESC against the median and the weighted share of bids above ESC.
Agency	Lettings	Bids	Median bid /LB	Field and ESC	ESC vs median	Bids above ESC
All agencies	6	26	$2.68		+25%	14%
New Hampshire Department of TransportationNHDOT	6	26	$2.68		+25%	14%

Middle half of bids
Median bid
ESC rate, as a GC carries it (gold rule: our low–high range)

Where these numbers come from

Basis

Furnish, fabricate and set. 26 public bids on 6 lettings and 7 pay lines, from NHDOT (2013–2024; every year is used, because bids from 2019 on leave fewer than 8 lettings). Every bid is restated to 2026 dollars and to a typical ESC job of 9,438 LB. A letting’s weight halves every 3 years, and each letting counts once, however many bidders it drew.

ESC’s rate is compared as a general contractor carries it: the published typical rate plus 10%, because a public pay line is the general contractor’s price, markup included.

Limited evidence: 6 lettings. A comparison is published from 3 lettings; 8 or more count as strong evidence.

Published by Earth Support Corp. from public agency bid tabulations. These are budget comparisons, not a quote or an offer: ESC quotes its earth-support scope to general contractors as a subcontractor, from your drawings.

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Rev 1 · valid through Dec 13, 2026

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