Yes, and such companies usually are
- construction engineering companies (doing planning, calculation, supervision, controlling etc. but giving all the physical site work to contractors)
- civil construction companies (doing all the same plus the physical site work or at least a part of it)
I don’t know a company which solely executes such contracts, all the ones I am aware of do this as part of their business. And as I said before, this is a special form of contract stipulated by the client and not a subdiscipline of construction business.
Any company taking over such a contract acts as EPC contractor (in german Generalübernehmer = 1. or Generalunternehmer = 2. whereas in english this difference is not made afaik).
The company I have been working for many years called itself “construction company” and “construction” was even part of the name. We did act as
- general contractor (doing all the physical site work but not the engineering part)
- subcontractor (doing parts of the site work for another general contractor)
- partner in joint venture contracts
- partner in PPP projects (public-private partnerships)
but we also handled many EPC contracts and moreover acted form time to time as real estate developer (where the company executes a project completely on its own, not as a contractor for a client).
To my understanding we are only talking about 3 different kinds of business here:
- construction engineering
- construction company/contractor
- real estate developer
whereas the kind of contract handled should not be subject to tagging.