Pricing

Flexible civil CAD, BIM, and digital-delivery support.

Choose on-demand consulting, reserved monthly capacity, an annual support plan, or a three-year strategic partnership. Longer commitments include more consulting hours, faster support priority, and lower rates for additional covered support.

On-Demand Consulting

$275per hour

For focused troubleshooting, independent reviews, and specialized technical questions without a recurring commitment.

✓Priority 3 scheduling
✓Senior CAD/BIM and digital-delivery consulting
✓Workflow, standards, ProjectWise, and QA/QC guidance
✓Best for one-time or clearly defined requests

Monthly CAD/BIM Support

$2,500per month

Reserved remote support for production teams that need dependable senior expertise throughout the month.

✓10 consultation hours per month
✓Priority 2 scheduling and one-business-day response target
✓One designated client contact
✓Additional covered support at $150/hour
✓Recommended three-month initial commitment
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Annual Digital Delivery Plan

$30,000per year

Flexible annual capacity for firms supporting multiple teams, projects, platforms, or internal standards.

✓120 consultation hours per contract year
✓Priority 1 scheduling and same-business-day response target
✓Quarterly workflow and standards reviews
✓Annual CADD-system health assessment
✓Additional covered support at $135/hour
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Three-Year Partnership

$30,000per year

A $90,000 total commitment that provides systems continuity, reserved capacity, and the strongest support pricing.

✓150 consultation hours during each contract year
✓Highest scheduling priority
✓Quarterly technology and workflow reviews
✓Annual workspace and standards assessment
✓Up to 30 unused hours may roll into the following contract year
✓Additional covered support at $100/hour, limited to 50 hours per year
✓Annual price fixed during the initial term

What your consulting hours can be used for.

Included hours cover remote advisory, troubleshooting, targeted reviews, minor configuration updates, and short knowledge-transfer sessions. Larger production assignments, implementations, custom development, and formal training programs receive a separate scope and fee.

OpenRoads Designer

Support for terrain models, geometry, profiles, corridors, templates, superelevation, cross sections, quantities, annotations, sheet production, references, and troubleshooting. Assistance focuses on production workflows and model health; engineering design decisions remain with the responsible design professional.

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Guidance for templates, styles, surfaces, alignments, profiles, corridors, pipe networks, data shortcuts, plan production, and file troubleshooting. Support may include targeted template or style corrections when they fit within the plan hours.

OpenBridge Designer

Roadway-and-bridge model coordination, file organization, reference strategy, model review, and production support. Structural analysis, bridge engineering decisions, calculations, and sealed deliverables are not included in the listed support plans.

MicroStation & Navisworks

DGN production support, references, levels, display standards, sheet composition, model aggregation, coordination review, clash-review workflows, viewpoints, and issue communication.

ProjectWise & Digital Delivery

User and file support, folder structures, workflows, permissions, attributes, naming, version control, integration troubleshooting, document control, and deliverable packaging. A new ProjectWise environment, migration, or major configuration effort is quoted separately.

Workspaces, Standards & SOPs

DGNLIBs, cells, feature definitions, annotation groups, sheet seeds, templates, configuration review, standards governance, checklists, and minor updates to existing manuals or procedures. Full workspace builds and new manuals are fixed-fee projects.

Model & Deliverable QA/QC

Targeted checks of file structure, model health, references, levels, naming, standards compliance, sheet-to-model coordination, and delivery readiness. This is a technical CAD/BIM review, not an engineering design review or approval.

Production Guidance

Screen-share assistance with corridors, terrains, profiles, sections, drainage workflows, quantities, annotations, and sheets. Substantial hands-on modeling, drafting, plan production, or backlog reduction is quoted as project work.

Training & Team Enablement

Short remote coaching, workflow demonstrations, troubleshooting sessions, and knowledge transfer are covered by plan hours. Formal classes, custom curricula, manuals, recorded courses, and on-site training are priced separately.

Automation & Reporting

Workflow review, automation strategy, macro troubleshooting, and minor reporting improvements may use plan hours. New VBA tools, macros, integrations, dashboards, or custom reporting workflows require a defined project proposal.

License Analysis

Inventory review, utilization analysis, cost and allocation observations, and software-management recommendations. A documented license analysis with findings and an implementation roadmap is offered as a fixed-fee engagement.

Defined deliverables with a separate scope, schedule, and fee.

These ranges are planning estimates. Final pricing depends on the number of users, software environment, model and sheet complexity, existing standards, required deliverables, review cycles, schedule, and client responsibilities.

CADD license-utilization analysis$2,500 – $25,000
Digital-delivery assessment$7,500 – $15,000
ProjectWise workflow and governance setup$7,500 – $20,000
OpenRoads/Civil 3D workspace implementation$15,000 – $35,000
CAD standards manual or SOP package$7,500 – $30,000
Custom automation or reporting workflow$5,000 – $25,000
Two-hour technical workshop$1,500
Half-day technical training$2,750
Full-day technical training$4,500
Custom curriculum and course manual$7,500 – $25,000
CADD modeling and sheet productionQuoted by project
On-site, rush, or after-hours supportQuoted separately

Contract-ready support for government and infrastructure assignments.

Retainer plans are corporate-support agreements and are not billed to a public owner as unused project capacity. For a public-sector project, Nexus documents actual authorized hours under the prime agreement using the approved labor classification, task, function or activity code, and not-to-exceed amount.

Project rates are negotiated based on scope, committed hours, contract requirements, and approved classifications. Engineering decisions, responsible charge, calculations, and sealed deliverables remain with the responsible registered engineering firm and licensed professional unless separately authorized and legally permitted.

Senior CADD productionFrom $125/hour
Advanced OpenRoads/Civil 3D modelingFrom $175/hour
Utility modeling and coordinationFrom $180/hour
ProjectWise and digital deliveryFrom $185/hour
Standards and deliverable QA/QCFrom $225/hour
Senior technical advisory$250/hour

Clear expectations before work begins.

✓Retainer fees are invoiced in advance and reserve professional availability; they do not provide unlimited services or guarantee a specific quantity of deliverables.
✓Meetings, email, coordination, research, file review, documentation, and technical work count toward included hours.
✓Additional hours require written authorization. Discounted additional-hour rates apply only to covered remote support services.
✓Monthly and annual unused hours expire at the end of their allocation period. Three-year rollover is capped at 30 hours and expires after the following contract year.
✓Travel, on-site work, specialty licensing, printing, rush work, and after-hours services are separately authorized and invoiced.
✓Major production, custom development, formal curriculum, migrations, and implementations require a separate proposal.

Start with a scope review.

Share your software platforms, immediate problems, expected demand, project requirements, and desired response time. Nexus will recommend the most economical support plan or prepare a defined project proposal.

Request a Scope Review