Apex is the design and procurement arm for hotel owners. We draw your guestrooms and public space, bid the package, write the purchase orders, chase the containers, and we are still in the room on the day the last piece gets set. It is one firm on one contract from specification through punch, and because we own and operate hotels ourselves, we look after your budget the way we look after our own.
AC Hotel by Marriott · Kansas City Downtown, Missouri · 906 Grand
Interior design
Our designers spend this stage on the fabric grade, on the lamp that carries the power module the brand asks for, on a carpet the franchisor signs off first time. None of it costs anything while it is a drawing, and all of it does once a factory is running.
Hampton Inn & Suites · Conway, Arkansas
The finish board
Choosing a finish is the happy part of this work and the fussy part at once. It has to look right, price out, get the brand's blessing, and still be in production the month the truck comes.
StoneMaterial study
VeneerMaterial study
BroadloomMaterial study
BrassMaterial study
Procurement
Design is the half people ask to see first, and we have never minded that. Buying is the half that decides whether the doors open on the day the note says they open, and it is quieter work, mostly confirmations and phone calls and a folder that has to be right. It is the half we love most.
AC Hotel by Marriott · Kansas City Downtown, Missouri
The ledger
| Property | Brand | Scope | Purchased |
|---|---|---|---|
| AC Hotel Kansas City DowntownKansas City, MO | Marriott | FF&E · OS&E · Equipment | $4,533,480 |
| Home2 Suites Little Rock WestChenal Parkway, AR | Hilton | Casegoods · FF&E · Fitness · AV | $1,223,184 |
| Home2 Suites Little Rock MidtownLittle Rock, AR | Hilton | Design · FF&E | $1,495,000 |
| Holiday Inn Express Little Rock DowntownLittle Rock, AR | IHG | FF&E | $1,161,500 |
| Hampton Inn & Suites ConwayConway, AR | Hilton | Design · FF&E · OS&E · Guest supply | $784,621 |
| Residence Inn by MarriottRidgeland, MS | Marriott | Design · FF&E · OS&E | $735,076 |
| Invoiced across six hotels2019 – 2025 | $9,932,861 |
Invoiced purchase value on projects Apex procured; design fees, freight and tax are excluded. Where a draw restated an earlier one the money is counted once, and one purchase order that may have been subsumed by a later one is left out entirely. The total is deliberately conservative.
Installation
There is a sofa in this photograph, and a casegood, a table lamp, a side table, framed art, a window treatment and the carpet underneath all of it. Seven purchase orders, and we wrote every one, chased every one, took delivery into a building that was still a construction site, and set them here in the right room in the right week. Then we did it again for the next room.
Hampton Inn & Suites · Conway, Arkansas
What a line item looks like
On a budget, FF&E is one line with a number beside it. Open that line up and you find a pendant with a lead time, a fabric grade the brand standard names and will come back to check, a lamp whose power module has to match a sheet signed off long before the room existed, and a long tail of decisions just like them. Every one of these was drawn, priced, ordered and set by the same people, who are all still quite attached to it.
Photographed at the Hampton Inn & Suites, Conway, Arkansas.
Two halves of one job
01
We start with how the room ought to feel and work back from there, through the finishes, the specification and the franchisor submittal, with one eye the whole way on a budget that still has to be standing when the bids come back.
02
We bid the package and place the orders, then spend the long middle of the job on freight, warehousing and landing everything at the site in the order the building can take it. Your lender's draw reporting comes out of those same records, so it is ready when you need it.
The flagship
Marriott · Kansas City, Missouri
Apex bought the whole of 906 Grand: every guestroom and every public space, the FF&E and the OS&E, and the operating equipment right down to the kitchen and the laundry. We were on it from the first specification sheet to the punch list, which is a long time to spend with one building, and we got fond of it.
Photographed at the AC Hotel by Marriott Kansas City Downtown: the guestrooms and public spaces those purchase orders paid for.
Why owners use Apex
We have opened the doors on our own buildings, walked the lobby the week before with the film still on the glass, and then lived with what we bought. Some line items are worth going back to a vendor over more than once, and some are better let go so the schedule holds. Knowing which is which is most of this job.
One firm carries it from the first finish board to the last piece set in the last room, so there is no seam where a designer hands off to a purchasing agent, who hands off to an installer who has never spoken to either of them. You walk punch with the people who drew it and bought it, and that is a far better conversation.
We are buying across Hilton, Marriott and IHG more or less continuously, so when a quote lands we usually already know what that same chair cost us recently, and we say so. The vendors know us and we know their lead times, and both of those turn into money on a package this size. It is not a dramatic advantage, but it is where most of the savings actually live.
Vendor bench
How we price it
Our fee is quoted per project against the approved FF&E and OS&E budget, not against total project cost and not against construction. It is worth checking the basis on every proposal you are reading, ours included, because the same percentage on two different bases turns into two very different numbers.
Send the PIP, or whatever scope you have even if it is still rough, and we will come back with a number and a schedule.
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Apex Procurement, LLC · 119 South Izard Street, Suite 200 · Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
Email ApexNayan (Nick) Nagin
President
Lesley Edmonds
Design & Procurement
Rocky Govind
Ownership
