Bills Of Quantities

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We produce accurate and detailed Bills of Quantities for private clients and main contractors tendering on projects to assist them in submitting competitive tenders for their projects

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SERVICE OVERVIEW -

We use Vector Quantity Surveying & Estimating software which provides a fully integrated approach to the preparation and use of documentation for the procurement and control of construction projects and also allows us to produce Bills of Quantities and detailed Estimates for main contractors and sub-contractors.

BHADANIS  Quantity Surveyors can provide a professional Bills of Quantities solution thereby saving contractors and sub-contractors the high costs involved in employing a full time department to carry out this work.

Bills of Quantities which we provide contractors with includes the following benefits:-

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• Detailed and accurate Bills of Quantities produced

• Standard Method of Measurement (SMM7) or New Rules of Measurement (NRM 2) and Agreed Rules of Measurement 4

• Based on Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement 3

• Builders Quantities produced

• Bespoke Measurement in accordance with contractors requirements

• Bills of Quantities can be converted and presented in Excel or CITE formats for importing into your estimating software, or delivered electronically, CD, or hard copy

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TYPES OF BILLS OF QUANTITIES

The main use of a bill of quantities in support of a contract is the traditional and proven means of securing a lump-sum price for carrying out the building works for the client.

SC Quantity Surveyors produce several types of Bills of Quantities which include

• Firm (to obtain a lump-sum price for a fully designed building project)

• Approximate (subject to re measurement as built)

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APPROXIMATE BILLS OF QUANTITIES

BHADANIS Quantity Surveyors can produce approximate bills of quantities which are mainly used when there is insufficient details to prepare firm bills of quantities or where the client has decided that the time and cost of a firm bill of quantities is not warranted. These types of contracts do not provide a lump-sum price, but instead tender price totals (ie. a quantified schedule of rates), since the quantities are subject to re-measurement on completion by the quantity surveyor. In general these contracts are usually subject to greater variation than lump sum contracts and therefore should only be used where time is a limiting factor or where there is great uncertainty in respect of certain elements, such as major excavations and earthworks.

It is important to note that the initial resource cost of approximate bills of quantities is likely to be lower than firm bills of quantities, but the need for re-measurement invariably results in an overall higher resource cost. Although the measured quantities are approximate, the descriptions of work items should be correct in the approximate bill of quantities.

Bills of Quantities that are required for a lump sum contract based on firm or approximate quantities will normally be prepared by the employer’s quantity surveyor, whereas under a design and build contract, the employer’s project team will prepare the employer’s requirements and the Bill of Quantities or quantified schedules of work will be prepared by either the main contractor or, more likely, the main contractor’s work package contractors. In general the choice of who quantifies building works is solely down to the employer’s preference of contract strategy

COMPOSITION OF BILLS OF QUANTITIES

The Bills of Quantities which we provide our clients with can include the following main sections:

• Form of Tender (including certificate of bona fide tender)

• Summary (or Main Summary)

• Preliminaries, comprising two main section as follows:
  – Information and requirements; and
  – Pricing schedule

• Measured works (incorporating the contractor designed works eg. pre-cast concrete floors/stairs, windows etc)

• Risks;

• Provisional sums;

• Credits (for materials arising from the works);

• Dayworks (Provisional); and

• Annexes

DETAILS

We are able to provide our clients including private clients, contractors and sub-contractors with bills of quantities for their project to assist with tendering

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METHOD OF MEASUREMENT

Our bills of quantities can be prepared using (SMM7), New Rules of Measurement (NRM 2) and Agreed Rules of Measurement 4

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BUILDERS QUANTITIES

We prepare builders quantities for contractors and sub-contractors tendering on projects