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• Preliminary Cost Advice
• Procurement Methods
• Tendering & Contract
• Preparing Tender Documents and Negotiating Contract Prices
• Preparing Contract Documents and Participating in Contract Administration
• Value Engineering Process
• Contractual Advice
• Valuation of Construction Work
• Valuation of Variation order and Financial Claims
• Finalization of Account

In both the public and private sectors the Quantity Surveyor (QS) is an important member of the design team. The needs of a Quantity Surveyor in a project are becoming more essential and demanding especially with the increasing project volume and complexity He is essentially a Building Economist, advising Employers and Architects on the probable costs of alternative designs. His advice enables design and construction at all stages to be controlled within pre-determined limits of expenditures.

Major Role:

• Advises on procedures for arranging building contract.
• Prepare bills of quantities
• Where appropriate, negotiates contracts with Contractors
• Prepare forecasts of final cost and valuations for payments to the contractor as work proceeds.
• Responsible for measurement and valuation of variations in the work during the contract.
• Preparation and agreement of the Contractor’s final account.

In relating to the construction progress, a Quantity Surveyor’s activities can include as:

• Collecting information on the cost of various alternative product / material in order to prepare precise details of the product /materials required for the contracts in hand.
• Preparing interim costing and make sure the financial positions of the contract can be ascertained
• Planning contracts and preparing progress charts in conjunction with site management.
• Making application to the Architect for variations and sub-contractors’ accounts
• Comparing the costs of alternative methods of carrying out various superintending Office’s instructions so that the most economical can be adopted.

The Quantity Surveyor’s role is to ensure that the resources of the construction industry are utilized to the best advantages of every party in the industry by providing the financial management for projects and a cost consultancy services to client and designer during the whole construction progress.

Firm Price Contracts

Fixed price contract, sometimes also call lump sum or entire contracts, can be formulated with various methods of documentation. An important decision is whether or not the work should be quantified in a Bill of Quantities or in a form in which quantification follows later, such as with a bill of approximate quantities or a schedule of rate. Where no quantification takes place, the written documentation consists of drawings and a specification.

The inclusion of quantities reduces the Contractors’ estimating risks, ensures fairer competition, reduce contractor’s tendering cost, and provides improved cost feedback and a basis for valuing variation.

Bill of Quantities

There are distinct advantages in incorporation full and accurate Bill of Quantities in the contract documents for substantial building projects. The principle advantages stemming from their use are as follow:

• Bills avoid the need for all of the tender contractors to measure the quantities themselves before preparing an estimate. If all tenderers have to measure the works there is wasteful duplicate of effort and an increase in the contractor’s overheads, which equally has to be passed on the Client.
•  Bills, prepared in accordance whit the Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works (SMM), ensure that an adequate description of the work is given to all tendering contractors and therefore all tender on the same basis. The absence of bills leads to greater variability, increased risk in estimating and consequently more dispute in the construction works.
•  The detailed breakdown of the contract sum permits proper financial management of the contract.

The Bill of Quantities is designed primarily as tendering document, but it also provides a valuable aid to the pricing of variations and computation of valuation for interim certificates. It provides a good basic for cost planning and, helps in locational identification of the works.

The Bill of Quantities normally comprises:

• Preliminaries
• Preambles or descriptions of materials and workmanship
• Measured works
• Provisional Sum and Prime Cost Sum

The Preliminaries define the scope and nature of the work; contain details of the contract conditions, list of drawings and any special instruction to the contractor on pricing.

Prime cost sum will be inserted in the bill of quantities for work to be carried out by nominated sub-contractors or for goods to be supplied by nominated suppliers, and for which estimates or tenders have usually been obtained. Provisional sums cover work for which details have not been finalized or for which costs are unknown at the time of preparing the bill.

Tender with Bill of Quantities, however, has one disadvantages in that full documentation involving the preparation of accurate Bill of Quantities is of necessity a lengthy process.

Quantity Take-Off

Quantity take-off (QTO) is an activity performed by Cost Consultants, and Quantity Surveyors in the construction process which related to a detailed measurement such as labour and building materials needed in completion of a project.

This involved counting no.of items with a particular for a development/ construction project, which will determine the total of materials, labour costs involved, and formulate a bid with estimation in the bidding process. It applied to a pricing process. Cost consultant or QS will review drawing s and specifications to find out the quantities based on the counting and calculation.

QTO is a tedious and time-consuming job as it need to go through the whole construction drawing to count all the material needed. All the quantity need to be measured as it will be used for pricing in the later phase of estimating process.