The short answer is no. Proportional Facilities Management Solutions is not a general contractor. We do not hold a general contractor license, we do not contract to deliver construction, and we do not act as the builder of record on any project. That distinction is not a technicality. It defines what we are responsible for, what the licensed trades are responsible for, and which side of the table we sit on.
The confusion is understandable. When an owner sees a single point of contact coordinating multiple trades on a project, that looks a lot like what a general contractor does. The difference is in who carries what, and it matters to every owner deciding how to run a project.
What a general contractor is
A general contractor contracts to deliver the construction itself. The GC holds the means-and-methods responsibility for how the work gets done, carries the licensing the work requires, pulls construction permits as the builder, and either self-performs the trades or subcontracts them. When an owner hires a GC, the owner is buying a finished result and the GC owns the path to it. That is the right model for ground-up construction and large, complex builds, and it comes with the licensing and insurance structure built for exactly that.
What Proportional FM is
Proportional FM sits on the owner's side of the table. The role is owner-side oversight and coordination: defining and documenting scope, vetting and coordinating licensed trades, verifying their work against what was agreed, tracking schedule and budget, and reporting to ownership throughout. The licensed trades perform the work under their own licenses and insurance. Proportional FM does not hold trade licenses and does not perform trade execution in-house.
Put simply: a general contractor is accountable for building it. Owner-side oversight is accountable for making sure what gets built matches what the owner agreed to and paid for. On projects that warrant it, the work follows PMP-grade project methodology, scope defined before work begins, documentation produced throughout, cost tracked against what was approved. That is project management from the owner's vantage point, not construction delivery.
Why the distinction matters to an owner
When the roles are clear, accountability is clear. The licensed party carries the licensed responsibility for the work it performs, and the owner has an independent representative whose only job is to protect the owner's interest in scope, quality, schedule, and budget. Those are two different functions, and collapsing them does an owner no favors. An owner-side representative who also held the construction contract would be checking their own work.
Keeping the line bright is the point. Proportional FM holds the relationship and the oversight; the licensed trades and contractors hold the license and the execution. That separation is consistent across everything Proportional FM does, and it is documented in full on the Scope and Boundaries page.
When you need a GC, and when you do not
Some projects genuinely require a licensed general contractor: ground-up construction, major structural work, and large permitted multi-trade build-outs where one party needs to hold the construction contract and carry the licensing. In those cases, retain a GC. Proportional FM can provide owner-side oversight alongside that GC, representing the owner and verifying the work, but it does not replace the contractor.
Plenty of smaller commercial work does not require a GC. A well-defined scope with a manageable set of trades needs project discipline applied to the trades, the schedule, and the documentation, which is exactly the owner-side function. That distinction, when a small commercial project needs a GC and when it needs owner-side oversight instead, is worked through in detail in running a small commercial project without a general contractor.
The line, stated plainly
Proportional FM is a facilities management firm that provides owner-side assessment, coordination, and project oversight. It is not a general contractor, does not hold a GC license, and does not perform or contract construction as the builder. Licensed trades and, where a project requires one, a licensed general contractor perform the work. That is the model by design, and it is the model that keeps accountability where it belongs.