Cost Plan - Module

Overview | Contract Particulars | Sections and Locations | Construction, Site and Rentables | Measurement     Edit Rate Build-Up | Printouts | Data Import | Print Cost Plan | Generate Tender Documentation

Overview

• Prepare, measure, price and output Cost Estimates and Elemental Cost Plans in Elemental format with all levels of summary of detail
• Cost Estimate and Elemental Cost Plan item rates are built up by linked priced Bill items, or entered as a plug-in Rate
• Take-off functions present in the Cost Plan module
• Onscreen take-off of dims with DimensionX is fully integrated into QSplus
• Fast and easy conversion of Cost Estimates and Elemental Cost Plans to Bills of Quantities
• Elemental Rate Benchmarking provides graphic comparison of the Elemental Rates for the current project, to the relevant building type benchmark
• Regional libraries of Cost Plan rates may be maintained
• The ASAQS Guide to Elemental Cost Estimating is included as a Help File on the system

Overview

• Prepare, measure, price and output Cost Estimates and Elemental Cost Plans in Elemental format with all levels of summary of detail
• Cost Estimate and Elemental Cost Plan item rates are built up by linked priced Bill items, or entered as a plug-in Rate
• Take-off functions present in the Cost Plan module
• Onscreen take-off of dims with DimensionX is fully integrated into QSplus
• Fast and easy conversion of Cost Estimates and Elemental Cost Plans to Bills of Quantities
• Elemental Rate Benchmarking provides graphic comparison of the Elemental Rates for the current project, to the relevant building type benchmark
• Regional libraries of Cost Plan rates may be maintained
• The ASAQS Guide to Elemental Cost Estimating is included as a Help File on the system

Contract Particulars

• Entry of general project data such as project description, client, consultants (selected from central database), cost plan dates, program dates, VAT % and price increase forecast data for auto calculation of escalations from Cost Plan date to project completion
• Setting of percentages or amounts for auto calculation of professional fees
• Setting of percentages or amounts for auto calculation of Preliminaries and Contingencies (Prelims can be measured if preferred)
• Describing additional provisions outside the cost plan

Sections and Locations

• Setup of Cost Plan sections for multi-use building cost plans and locations within each building to further break down the detail, if required. Locations carry a factor which can be amended
• Consultant's drawings can be registered in Contract Particulars
• Professional fees can be set up differently for each section
• Preliminaries and Contingency percentages or amounts can be set up differently for each section for auto calculation
• Program dates defaulted from Contract particulars can be amended to suit phased construction of the various buildings

Construction, Site and Rentable Areas

• Upfront entry of measurements which can be used later for the measurement of cost plan items
• Included on output documents for information and calculation of efficiency ratios

Measurement

Items are selected from the library of items, edited as required and saved in the correct position on the Measure by Element window. Dimensions are entered as listed under Take-off functions

Edit Rate Build-Up

• Each cost plan item in the Cost Plan library is already linked to Bill items comprising that Cost plan item with a formula linked to each Bill item whose variables can be set to reflect the current requirement (e.g. length, height, depth, etc.)
• Edit Cost plan item description to suit your project (such changes do not affect the library)
• Edit Variables in the formulae
• Assign package to each rate buildup item. Packages outside the Principal Contract will produce Provisional Sums when the Bills of Quantities are generated from the Cost Plan.
• Edit Rate for each line item from a central rate file
• Enter plug-in rate to override the built up rate

Printouts

• Dimension Detail
• Dimension Summary
• Cost Plan Abstract
• Package Split
• Locational Summaries

Data Import

• Import items from previous projects, with or without dimensions

Print Cost Plan

• Print the Cost Plan at various levels, viz.
  
  • Project
  • Section (building)
  • Executive Summary/Elemental Analysis
  • Item Detail including or excluding the detail of the rate buildup items
  • Output Executive Summary/Elemental Analysis and Item Detail to Excel

Generate Tender Documentation

• Using the Rate Buildup items associated with each Cost Plan item, this process extrapolates them into Bill data using the quantity measured against each Cost Plan item. Trades, Bill headings, subheadings and items are automatically generated
• The Principal Contract Tender document will automatically include items in the Provisional Sums trade with the correct description and money value for all other packages measured in the Cost Plan
• Bill items cross reference to Cost Plan in full detail