Hi Robert, I have been looking at this issue for a modest project, and I note that you suggest not signing up for long term agreements, as a possible option. With landscape maintenance contracts and work related to setting up and running those, a five year span is a common minimum and certainly for that type of work I suppose we have to try and sort out which is the best way of accommodating the price increases, I have told my client I am going to use the consumer prices index to review my fees on an annual basis.
Penny Bennett