Cost Plan & BOQ Formats
Pricing Process
The basic pricing process of any business is that you walk through three steps to a point that you can have actual data at the completion of the project. Then by basic math – you can interpolate those costs $X/m2 over the footprint of the building. Now if you can take out all the variables of a project and bring one project back to apples for...
Phone calls
Ensure the Subbie IS engaged
1. I can give you a scenario in most tenders where I hear – ” I didn’t submit a tender because ….” or even worst “I didn’t know you guys were tendering” the reasons for email not hitting their targets include:
Subcontractors and suppliers have varying degrees of computer know how.
Addenda can be missed if the subbie doesn’t read the...
Vetting & Subbie Comparison
VETTING COmpliant Quotes
“Vetting” is the term where an estimator uses his or her BOQ or an SOW to ensure that a trade package is compliant.
When a trade looks at a set of drawings they want to price everything that they feel comfortable pricing. Now sometime this is really helpful but sometimes if a subbie detours off the requested scope it can be...
Subcontract & Supplier Tender Close
“The last 2 weeks of a tender is pretty much a sprint to the finish line. The Subcontract Close is a huge Milestone in the life of a tender.”
The Push
“The Push” is normally the last two weeks of a medium-sized tender however on Tier 1 projects the could Day and night for months. To explain the process –
Most tenders in the Tier 3 sector...
Supporting Documents & Preliminaries
CAN YOU MANAGE THE PROJECT?
This a perfectly good question that every client asks. So the industry-standard method is the use of supporting documentation in the form of schedules. These schedules are then split into price-related schedules and non-priced schedules. The non-priced and priced schedules in most cases are submitted with the tender submission however some...
Non Priced & Priced Criteria
TENDER SCHEDULES
Clients have a few chooses in finding a builder now if they haven’t gone down the Pre-Qualification route. This is when you get a builder to basically submit a resume prior to a tender even being sent out to market. This basically helps the client to match the project to a likely builder.
There are two sides of any tender – Non priced Criteria...