An 18-truck HVAC company left its field service platform after nine years. The export ran fine. What it contained, and what it left behind, is the part worth planning for.
Somebody collecting three quotes cannot assess the work itself. They can only assess the paperwork, which means the document is doing more selling than the price.
Pricing against a competitor copies their arithmetic without ever seeing it. The number that decides everything is how many hours a year can honestly be billed.
The protection is real, considerably narrower than most owners assume, and easier to lose than anybody expects. The rest of the decision is bookkeeping and habits.