If you put a heading "Exclusions" in your proposal and list such unknown things as supplying fixtures to be selected by owner, those high dollar fixtures won't haunt you.
If you have a suggestion for a fixture, or one is iffy, it can be listed as an adder under "Alternates" to your original bid price for the rough and hang. We usually just supply the labor to hang the fixture that the customer provides in a case like this, and pray it doesn't weigh 250 lbs. when they select it.
And yes, by all means charge for your design time. If you've got to do the engineering, then it's part of the work and should not be given for free so somebody else can do the work.
[This message has been edited by electure (edited 05-14-2001).]
