Estimating And Tendering For Construction Work

Author         : Martin Brook
Nº. of Pages : 329 pages

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of figures
Abbreviations used in the text

1 Organization of the estimating function

2 Procurement paths
   Introduction
   Clients’ needs
   Contractor involvement
   Partnering
   Apportionment of risk
   Traditional method
   Design and build
   Management contracting
   Construction management
   Private finance initiative

3 Forms of contract
   Introduction
   Essentials of a valid construction contract
   Standard forms of contract
   Sub-contract forms
   Comparison of forms
   Selection of contract forms

4 Tender documentation
   Introduction
   Coordinated project information
   CPI and the estimator
   Documents used as the basis of a tender
   Formal tender documents

5 Estimating methods
   Introduction
   Single-rate approximate estimating
   Multiple-rate approximate estimating
   Approximate quantities
   Analytical estimating
   Operational estimating

6 Contractor selection and decision to tender
   Introduction
   Competition and negotiation
   Abuse of tendering procedures
   Decision to tender
   Inspection of tender documents
   Competition legislation

7 Project appreciation
   Introduction
   Estimate timetable
   Pricing strategy
   Schedules
   The estimating team
   Visits to consultants and site

8 Enquiries to suppliers and sub-contractors
   Introduction
   Enquiries for materials
   Enquiries to sub-contractors

9 Tender planning and method statements
   Introduction
   The role of the planning engineer
   Method statements
   Tender programmes

10 Resource costs – labour, materials and plant
   Introduction
   Labour rates
   Material rates
   Plant rates

11 Unit rate pricing
   Introduction
   Contents
   Components of a rate
   Method of measurement
   Pricing notes
   Model rate and pricing examples

12 Sub-contractors and nominated suppliers
   Introduction
   Domestic sub-contractors
   Nominated sub-contractors
   Nominated suppliers

13 Fluctuations
   Introduction
   Standard fluctuations clauses
   Calculation of non-recoverable increases

14 Provisional sums and dayworks
   Introduction
   Provisional sums for undefined work
   Provisional sums for defined work
   Dayworks
   Overheads and profit

15 Project overheads
   Introduction
   Pricing project overheads
   Pricing the preliminaries bill
   Example of project overheads

16 Cashflow forecasts
   Introduction
   Cashflow calculations
   Example of a contractor’s cashflow forecast

17 Completing the estimate and final tender review
   Completing the estimate
   Estimator’s report
   Comments on Estimate Analysis form
   Comments on Tender Summary form
   Risks and opportunities
   Overheads and profit

18 Tender submission and results
   Introduction
   Contents
   Completion of priced bills
   Tender presentation
   Vetting of tenders
   Post-tender negotiations and award
   Tendering performance and analysis of results
   Bidding strategy

19 Action with the successful tender
   Introduction
   Information transfer
   Feedback

20 Computer-aided estimating
Introduction
Aims of computer-aided estimating
Software
Electronic exchange of information
Reverse auctions
Computer-aided estimating packages
General purpose software
Hardware
Networking
Implementation
The future
Further reading
Index

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