Services

MCG brings a depth of Construction Consulting and Project Management expertise to enhance your in-house capabilities. As a COBID firm, we are an ideal partner for GCs desiring to expand their teams and meet small business utilization goals. We also specialize in collaborating with other COBID and small businesses, providing leadership and team building skills.

Pre-Construction Consulting

  • Estimating

  • Value Engineering

  • Attend Pre-Construction Meetings

  • Assist with Bidding, RFP Responses & Proposal Writing

  • Established Relationships with Vendors for Materials & Supplies

  • Established Relationships with COBID Subcontractors

  • Use of MCG’s COBID Certification for Team Building and Small Business Utilization Goals

Project Management

  • Timekeeping

  • Create / Track / Monitor Invoicing

  • Inspect Contractors’ Work for Compliance with Contract Documents, and Applicable Codes and Reference Standards

  • Record / Track Job Receipts

  • Set Up Accounting Systems to work with our Project Management System

  • Weekly Reports

  • Document / Track RFI Submittals, Change Orders, Subcontractors, and Subcontractor Change Orders

  • Certified Payroll Processing for Federally funded projects (Prevailing Wage)

Construction Consulting

  • Coordination, Quality Control, Scheduling

  • Submittals

  • Safety

  • Review Contract Drawings, Specifications, and Addenda

  • RFIs, Submittals, Project Closeout

  • Issue Warranty Notices

  • Established Relationships with Vendors for Materials & Supplies

  • Established Relationships with COBID Subcontractors

  • Invoicing, Certified Payrolls, Issuing Checks, Prevailing Wage

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training and Facilitation

  • Subcontractor Utilization

  • Workforce Compliance

  • Established Relationships with Vendors for Materials & Supplies

  • Established Relationships with COBID Subcontractors

  • MCG COBID Certified

COBID Experience

We pride ourselves on collaboration with GCs, Owners and Government Agencies to foster successful COBID participation and mentorship. This is in our DNA. As a COBID firm ourselves, we put a high priority on our mutual success. We understand this contributes to the health and success of our community, as well as the economy as a whole. It is part of our mission, and supports social justice and the greater good.

  • We include certified COBID firms on our teams whenever possible.

  • We are a member of OAME (Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs), where we network and do outreach to small, women-owned, and minority-owned firms for subcontractor services.

  • Angela Watkins participates in Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity (MAWE) and Portland Business Development Group (PBDG).

  • We collaborate with and utilize subcontractor services from PBDG, OAME and other local trade organizations for construction and professional services focused on COBID certified firms and small businesses.

  • We maintain good relationships with labor unions.

  • Angela Watkins has mentored and assisted women, small business and subcontractors in enhancing their business skills, including networking, performing administrative tasks, honing the skills of their trade, writing business correspondence, accurate estimating, how to invoice and use pay applications, and generally how to run a successful small business in the construction industry.

  • We keep careful track of COBID participation on our projects and can generate reports for distribution to relevant parties upon request, including the name of the COBID firm, certification number, scope and award amounts


Certified Oregon and Washington firms Angela Watkins has worked with in the last two years:

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