Scoping tool

Build vs. Buy Decision Tool

Buying framing isn't one decision, it's five — components, cut-to-length, a sub-assembled kit, design support, or a fully installed system. Picking the wrong one is how projects end up with a pile of extrusion nobody has time to assemble, or a turnkey invoice for work your team could have done in an afternoon. This matches the scope to what your shop actually has capacity for.

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Scope of Supply Recommendation

1. How well defined is the design?

2. What can your shop actually do?

Capacity, not capability

3. Timeline and risk

4. Scale and repeatability

Repeat volume is the strongest argument for paying for design once and properly.
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Recommended scope of supply
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Fit by option

Pairs well with the cut charge calculator if you're weighing doing the cutting yourself.

The mistake this is meant to prevent

The usual failure isn't choosing wrong on capability — most shops can assemble framing. It's choosing on capability when the binding constraint is capacity. A maintenance team that could absolutely build this, but is already fully committed, will take four months to do three days of work, and the project quietly becomes a pile of extrusion behind the tool crib.

The second failure is buying turnkey for a simple bolt-together job because a date slipped. That's usually a 2–3× premium for work your own people could have done, and it sets an expensive precedent for the next project.

This tool produces a scope-of-supply recommendation from the inputs you provide. It is not a quotation and does not assess whether any particular design is safe or compliant. Where guarding is subject to inspection, guard design and interlock selection must be established by a competent person.