I VE almost 80% of all my jobs, its standard practice to offer VE on all my quotes.
Few if any engineers have any field experience, more often than not use a canned spec their office produced 10 year ago, did not even visit the job site prior to producing a set of drawings, and may not know your local building criteria.
Service relocation, alternate fixture packages, MC in lieu of EMT, AL feeders, are all popular VE options.
The way you get paid for your engineering is only offer about 75% back.
