This is a research question so the more responses, the better.
Please vote in a comment.Your company manufactures and sells dog houses. Your assembly line in Kansas City builds just seven unique (patent pending) dog house sub-assemblies that can be quickly assembled in a great variety of custom configurations. When you receive an order from a client, a unique set of standard sub-assemblies are shipped to a pre-selected subcontractor in the client's location, who for a firm fixed price (FFP), assembles and installs the dog house according to the order, and then customizes the dog house with a fixed allowance for materials and supplies. As the primary vendor (prime contractor), your business operations include a web-based ordering system, manufacturing, shipping, tracking completion and client satisfaction, multi-year subcontract management, and post-installation subcontractor evaluations. Your FFP subcontractors (one per city) do all of the assembly, installation and customization work. In just three years of business operations, you have over 2400 happy clients in 80 cities (80 subcontractors).
A new client in Kalamazoo, Michigan orders a dog house with electric heat and the web-enabled DogCam options. Your subcontractor's customization allowance includes $1225 for a white brick facade and wood shingles to match the client's house, plus $350 in landscape treatments. The only risk is that a city inspection is required for this order (due to electricity).
Your question: Is your Kalamazoo order a project? For purposes of this (informal) research question, please
decide on your own without reading the comments, and please apply the PMI standard definition: A
project is "a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result."
Please provide your vote (and feel free to elaborate). You may answer anonymously.
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