Bills of quantities may prevent contractors from developing effective cost control systems.

The quantity of work can be extracted from the bill of quantities if available.

This would compare directly with the breakdown of a traditional bill of quantities.

I want you to go over the bill of quantities with him and show him where we are being robbed.'

The surveyor may fail to abstract the available data into a suitable form to compare directly with the bill of quantities or estimate.

The contract documents, however, may include not only drawings and specifications or a schedule of work but also bills of quantities.

Some builders and sub-contractors, however, retain the bill of quantities as the basis of agreeing rates.

The value of the work done in some cases (although less frequently in industrial construction) is calculated from bills of quantities.

Document preparation especially bills of quantities.

Where the bill of quantities or schedule of rates is not a contract document the rates shall still apply.

The bill of quantities may be of limited use because many items of the work will be presented in a summarised form.

A QS employs standard methods of measurement to develop a bill of quantities.

A Contingency sum is an item found within a Bill of quantities (BoQ).

The design, which would be completed before any contractor involvement, would normally be incorporated in drawings, specifications and/or bills of quantities.

The majority of sub-contractors either price an extract from the bill of quantities or prepare an estimate from the drawings and specification.

(a) A breakdown of the bill of quantities or original estimate for each priced item into labour, material, plant, overheads and profit.

Bills of quantities compounds labour and material costs by combining them into a single rate that is then adjusted in regards to material quantities.

As a main contractor or subcontractor, you will need to prepare a bill of quantities as part of your MLP.

CAWS defines an efficient and generally acceptable arrangement for specifications and bills of quantities for building projects.

This form of document contrasts with that of bills of quantities in which such tendering and estimation is limited to the materials in the completed work.

It assumes that bills of quantities are unnecessary, that fluctuations in prices need not be allowed for, and that the nomination of subcontractors is not required.

These are not entirely satisfactory as they are simply crude adaptations of the basic forms in which a specification is substituted for references to bills of quantities.

Even in small companies computers are an essential tool, particularly in the preparation of estimates and in pricing bills of quantities, where extensive calculations are involved.

It involves the engineering services of the building like air-conditioning, electrical, lift services and others where prime cost sums are to be included in the bills of quantities.

Bill of quantities (BOQ) - a document used in tendering in the construction industry in which materials, parts, and labor (and their costs) are itemized.