see what defensible looks like

A commercial flooring take-off identifies quantities.

A defensible bid requires more.

It requires a clear understanding of the scope shown in the documents, the requirements buried in the specifications, the conditions that remain undefined, and the contradictions that may create exposure after award.

Compass Global produces estimator-reviewed reports and exhibits designed to help commercial flooring contractors identify those issues before bid submission.

Our reporting is powered by SQUARES AI™ and grounded in the drawings, specifications, schedules, addenda, and related bid documents made available for review.

Estimator-Reviewed | Sheet-Tied Documentation | E&O Insured | Built for Commercial Flooring and Tile

A QUANTITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

The Documents Behind the Number Matter

Flooring contractors rarely lose margin because they forgot to measure the obvious work.

They lose margin when the documents contain conditions that were not clearly identified, properly assigned, or addressed before bid submission.

That exposure may include:

Conflicting finish information
Missing transition details
Undefined substrate conditions
Slab depressions and elevation changes
Waterproofing and crack-isolation references
Mud-bed requirements
Stair conditions
Attic-stock obligations
Buried alternate requirements
Addendum changes
Unassigned responsibilities
Contract-administration obligations

Compass Global organizes those conditions into structured reports designed to support stronger estimating decisions, clearer qualification language, and more defensible bid positions.

HOW THE REPORTING SYSTEM WORKS

Define the Scope

Identify the flooring, tile, concrete-related finish conditions, accessories, and project-specific requirements shown in the reviewed documents.

Identify the Exposure

Document contradictions, omissions, unresolved requirements, coordination gaps, and conditions that may affect pricing or responsibility.

Convert the Findings into Action

Support clarification requests, qualification language, addendum review, and documented bid positions before unresolved conditions reach the field.

CORE PROJECT EXHIBITS

Exhibit A - Scope of Work

Exhibit B - Alternates Report

Defines the Flooring and Tile Scope Identified in the Reviewed Documents

The Scope of Work Report organizes the applicable flooring, tile, concrete-related finish conditions, base, transitions, accessories, and related requirements identified in the bid documents.

Each scope item is tied to the applicable drawings and specifications where the information is available.

Primary Function

Provide a structured, document-driven scope summary before pricing is finalized.

Commercial Value

Helps the contractor understand what is clearly shown, what requires qualification, and where the documents do not provide enough information to support an unqualified bid position.

Exhibit B - Alternates Report

Captures Flooring-Related Alternates Identified in the Bid Documents

The Alternates Report identifies flooring, tile, base, transitions, and concrete-related finish scope expressly associated with documented alternates.

Primary Function

Separate alternate scope from base-bid scope and reduce the risk of missed pricing requirements.

Commercial Value

Helps prevent alternate work from being overlooked, duplicated, or unintentionally carried in the wrong pricing category.

Exhibit C - Attic Stock Report

Exhibit D - Contradictions Report

Identifies Extra-Material and Maintenance-Material Requirements

The Attic Stock Report captures flooring-related attic-stock, extra-material, and maintenance-material requirements identified in the reviewed documents.

Primary Function

Document stated quantities, percentages, ratios, linear footage, square footage, and other material-retention requirements where provided.

Commercial Value

Helps reduce the risk of submitting a material price that excludes required closeout inventory.

Exhibit D - Contradictions Report

Exhibit E - Value Engineering Report

Exhibit D - Contradictions Report

Documents Conflicting Conditions Before They Become Pricing Problems

The Contradictions Report identifies conflicts between drawings, finish schedules, specifications, details, notes, and related bid documents.

Primary Function

Document the conflicting information, explain why it matters, identify the responsible party for clarification, and establish a bid position if the issue remains unresolved.

Commercial Value

Helps the contractor avoid pricing one interpretation while the contract documents support another.

Exhibit E - Value Engineering Report

Identifies Document-Triggered Value Engineering Conditions

The Value Engineering Report captures flooring-related value-engineering items expressly identified in the reviewed documents.

Primary Function

Separate documented value-engineering opportunities from base-bid scope.

Commercial Value

Helps preserve pricing clarity and prevent informal substitutions from becoming undocumented scope assumptions.

Exhibit F - SQUARES RA Risk Model

Exhibit E - Value Engineering Report

Provides a Structured Project-Risk Assessment

The SQUARES RA Risk Model evaluates the flooring and tile document conditions identified during pre-construction review.

Primary Function

Summarize the project-risk level, key commercial concerns, document quality, unresolved conditions, and recommended next actions.

Commercial Value

Helps decision-makers quickly understand whether a project appears straightforward, incomplete, contradictory, or commercially exposed before final bid submission.

Exhibit G - Finish Schedule

Exhibit H - Document Presence

Organizes Flooring and Tile Finish Information

The Finish Schedule consolidates finish IDs, material descriptions, manufacturers, products, locations, and related requirements identified in the reviewed documents.

Primary Function

Create a structured reference point for the finishes associated with the estimate.

Commercial Value

Helps reduce finish-selection errors, missing product requirements, and inconsistencies between schedules, drawings, and specifications.

Exhibit H - Document Presence

Identifies the Documents Ready for Review

The Document Presence Report records whether key project documents were made available, including specifications, finish schedules, finish plans, interior drawings, vertical-circulation details, and other bid-relevant information.

Primary Function

Establish what information was available during the estimating and review process.

Commercial Value

Helps distinguish between scope supported by the provided documents and scope that remains unresolved because necessary information was not made available.

REVISION AND CONTRACT REVIEW reports

Exhibit X - Addendums, Bulletins and ASI's Report (when applicable)

Exhibit Q - Contract Administration Review (when contracts are made available)

Identifies Flooring-Related Changes Between Document Packages

The Addendums, Bulletins and ASIs Report documents revisions, additions, deletions, relocations, and scope movement identified between prior and current documents.

Each report is issued as a standalone review of the applicable addendum, bulletin, or ASI package.

Primary Function

Track documented flooring, tile, base, transition, and concrete-related finish changes before pricing is finalized or revised.

Commercial Value

Helps prevent late changes from being overlooked, partially carried, or priced from outdated documents.

Exhibit Q - Contract Administration Review (when contracts are made available)

Reviews Bid-Relevant Administrative Obligations

The Contract Administration Review identifies administrative requirements that may affect the flooring contractor after award.

This may include supervision requirements, staffing expectations, insurance obligations, platform requirements, notice procedures, schedule conditions, certifications, background checks, payment procedures, change-management requirements, closeout obligations, warranties, and unresolved flow-down exposure.

Primary Function

Identify contract-administration burdens that may not be visible in the flooring take-off.

Commercial Value

Helps the contractor understand obligations that may affect staffing, overhead, schedule exposure, compliance, and project execution.

SPECIALTY CONDITION REPORTS

Slab Conditions Report

Slab-on-Grade vs. Gypcrete Report

Identifies Documented Substrate and Slab Conditions

Captures flooring-related slab conditions, substrate references, elevation concerns, floor-preparation notes, and other concrete-related finish interfaces identified in the reviewed documents.

Commercial Value

Helps separate standard flooring installation from unresolved substrate conditions and qualification-sensitive work.

Slab-on-Grade vs. Gypcrete Report

Separates Slab Types and Associated Flooring Conditions

Identifies areas shown as slab-on-grade, elevated slab, gypcrete, or other substrate conditions where the distinction affects installation requirements, floor preparation, moisture considerations, or bid qualifications.

Commercial Value

Helps reduce the risk of applying one installation assumption across materially different substrate conditions.

Mud Bed & Slab Depressions Report

Slab-on-Grade vs. Gypcrete Report

Mud Bed & Slab Depressions Report

Identifies Recessed Slab, Mud-Bed, and Build-Up Conditions

Captures documented slab depressions, recess depths, mud-bed requirements, slope conditions, and related tile-assembly interfaces.

Commercial Value

Helps identify qualification-sensitive conditions that may affect pricing, trade responsibility, and finished-floor elevations.

Stairs Report

Tub and Shower Report

Mud Bed & Slab Depressions Report

Reviews Stair Treads, Risers, Landings, Nosings, and Related Conditions

Identifies stair-related flooring and tile requirements, finish references, transitions, geometry concerns, and unresolved details shown in the documents.

Commercial Value

Helps prevent stair scope from being reduced to a simple lineal-foot assumption when the documents require a more detailed review.

Tub and Shower Report

Identifies Flooring and Tile Conditions at Tubs and Showers

Reviews tile floors, tile walls, bases, trims, niches, shelves, waterproofing references, crack-isolation references, mud-bed conditions, slope requirements, and related accessory requirements where shown.

Commercial Value

Helps distinguish finish scope from unresolved assembly, waterproofing, substrate, and responsibility conditions.

Unit Counts Report

Tub and Shower Report

Organizes Project Unit Information Relevant to Flooring Review

Captures unit types, repeated conditions, and flooring-related quantity references where the reviewed documents support a structured unit-count analysis.

Commercial Value

Helps support consistent review of repeated room types, apartment layouts, guestrooms, suites, and other recurring project conditions.

COMMERCIAL RISK AND CLARIFICATION REPORTS

Scope Gap Report

Pre-Construction Intelligence Report

RFI Conversion Report

Identifies Commercially Relevant Conditions That Are Not Clearly Defined

The Scope Gap Report documents flooring, tile, concrete-related finish support, and accessory conditions that appear relevant to the bid but are not clearly detailed, fully coordinated, or explicitly assignable within the reviewed documents.

Primary Function

Identify unresolved scope conditions without inventing design intent or assigning undocumented requirements to the flooring contractor.

Commercial Value

Helps prevent silence in the documents from becoming an unqualified scope obligation after award.

RFI Conversion Report

Pre-Construction Intelligence Report

RFI Conversion Report

Converts Critical Findings into Formal Clarification Requests

The RFI Conversion Report transforms contradictions, scope gaps, and critical document changes into structured requests for information.

Each RFI is tied to the applicable drawings, specifications, and identified commercial impact.

Primary Function

Create clear, project-specific questions that support documented clarification before bid submission.

Commercial Value

Helps the contractor move from identifying risk to actively addressing it.

Pre-Construction Intelligence Report

Provides an Executive-Level Summary of the Project Review

The Pre-Construction Intelligence Report summarizes the applicable exhibits and specialty reports produced for the project.

Primary Function

Present the major findings, unresolved conditions, document quality concerns, and bid-critical issues in one consolidated review.

Commercial Value

Helps estimators, executives, project managers, and bid decision-makers understand the project’s commercial exposure without reviewing every underlying report individually.

BUILT FOR COMMERCIAL FLOORING AND TILE

A Specialized Review Process

Compass Global focuses on commercial flooring, tile, concrete-related finish conditions, accessories, and associated bid-risk interfaces.

Our review may include:

Flooring

Carpet tile, broadloom carpet, resilient flooring, luxury vinyl tile, luxury vinyl plank, sheet vinyl, vinyl-composition tile, static-dissipative tile, bio-based tile, rubber flooring, wood flooring, laminate flooring, epoxy flooring, and related accessories.

Tile

Ceramic tile, porcelain tile, quarry tile, stone tile, tile floors, tile walls, tile base, trims, transitions, grout, thinset, mud-bed conditions, waterproofing references, crack-isolation references, and related accessories.

Accessories and Interfaces

Resilient base, stair treads, risers, nosings, transition strips, trims, flash-coving accessories, expansion-control references, access-floor interfaces, and other flooring-related conditions identified in the reviewed documents.

Concrete-Related Finish Conditions

Polished concrete, sealed concrete, stained concrete, slab conditions, substrate references, slab depressions, self-leveling references, and floor-preparation conditions identified in the documents.

Document-Driven. Estimator-Reviewed. Commercially Focused.

Compass Global reports are based on the bid documents made available for review.

Our reports are designed to identify scope conditions, unresolved requirements, contradictions, and commercial exposure.

They do not replace architectural design responsibility, engineering responsibility, legal review, field investigation, or formal clarification by the responsible design and construction parties.

Where the documents do not provide enough information to support an unqualified bid position, the report identifies the unresolved condition and the clarification required.