Not a procurement transaction. But every hour you spend chasing POs and freight is an hour off the billable work you actually sell. DAF is a procurement rail built behind studios — you spec the room, we run everything after the signature, through DAF Global Connect.
A dealer folds 35% into every piece and calls it the price. DAF charges 20% on landed cost and prints it as its own line. Same furniture. The difference is what your client keeps — and the transparency is what they remember.
The worked example at the 400K stop is the corpus case: dealer $540,000 against DAF $456,000.
The markup rides inside every line item. Your client never sees it — and never sees you saw it.
The plan can be read aloud to the client. Supplier price, freight, fee — every line in the open.
Same furniture cost, $30,000 difference — about 11.1% off what the client pays. Illustrative: dealer at the standard 35% markup, DAF at the flat 20% on landed cost.
Everything after the signature, off your desk.
- Sourcing
- Qualified makers for your spec list, through DAF Global Connect.
- RFQ management
- Quotes solicited and compared against your spec and budget.
- Purchase orders
- Issued and tracked on your behalf, supplier to closeout.
- QC coordination
- Third-party pre-shipment inspection arranged; its cost is a project expense.
- Logistics coordination
- DAF coordinates the project's forwarder and customs broker. DAF is neither.
- Delivery + closeout
- Last mile to the site's receiving location, then the closeout package. One contact throughout.
Your name stays on the plan and the invoice. The purchase orders, the freight forwarder, the customs broker — DAF coordinates them, so you never manage one.
- Replies
- Next business day
- Scope
- Brief to closeout package
- Your role
- Designer of record
Send the FF&E list
From a live project — any format. PDF, spreadsheet, a schedule in the drawing set. Named pieces or named intentions, either works.
It comes back costed
The supplier named on every line, landed cost and lead time per piece, DAF's 20% shown on each. Five business days. Free, no meeting attached.
You present it
The sheet is built to be read aloud to a client. Your name on it, the fee visible, nothing hidden in the line items.
Then it runs
Approve and the plan becomes the project: POs, freight, customs, delivery, closeout. You stay the designer of record.
Trade terms.
- Fee
- Flat 20% on aggregate landed cost
- Install
- Coordinated on request, billed at cost, no fee
- Attribution
- Your studio's name on the plan and the invoice
- Referrals
- Referrals between studios stay yours
- Repeat clients
- The relationship is yours, by design
- Replies
- Next business day, every message
The fee is the only revenue. Nothing is folded into a piece price, and nothing on this page changes between the first project and the tenth.
Send one FF&E list. See what comes back.
The sample plan costs nothing and attaches to no meeting. If the numbers hold, the rail is already running.