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Assignment E
P9.5 Show how you would deal with each of the following in a Bill of Quantities and in each of them, explain how the tender price may be affected. a) Reinforcement to be supplied by a nominated supplier and fixed by a main contractor. b) Sanitary appliances to be supplied and fixed by a nominated subcontractor. c) Joinery shelving is required but the designs have not yet been finalized although the type of work can be identified. REF 9.5a DESCRIPTION Supply of Reinforcement Supply only of high yield / mild steel reinforcement bars, supplied by NJM Limited 650.0 0 425.0 0 164.0 0
12,500.0 0 75,300.0 0 9,800.00

CONT R. QTY

UNIT

RATE

TOTAL VALUE

A52.1.1.1

tns
800.00

(i) T25, straight in 12m lengths

tns
700.00 1,000.00

(ii) T12, straight in 6m lengths (iii) R6, links, 400 by 400

tns

A52.1.2

Main contractors profit on EP Limited, Nominated supplier, as above

97,600.0 0

Fixing of Reinforcement
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E30.1

Fixing only of high yield / mild steel reinforcement bars, supplied by NJM Limited 650.0 0 425.0 0 164.0 0

E30.1.1.1 E30.1.1.1 .3 E30.1.1.4

T25, straight T12, straight, vertical, 6.00 9.00m R6, links

tns tns tns

9.5b

Supply and Install Sanitary Ware Supply and install in place complete bathroom sets from NJM Limited catalogue reference 357.8c, beige, including all necessary fixtures and fittings as below.

A51.1.1. 1

300.00

20,250.0 0 17,300.0 0

WC complete with flushing, HD seat, angle valve, flexible and toilet connector.

360.00

125.0 0

Nr.
18,000.0 0

280.00

WHB complete with pedestal, fixing hooks, 2 angle valves, 2 flexible and single lever mixer (cat. Ref. 974.5d).

125.0 0

Nr.

130.00

7,950.00

Bath tub complete with leveling legs and single lever stainless steel mixer with shower (cat. Ref. 638.7a)

125.0 0

Nr.

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Bathroom wall mounted accessories including towel holder, towel ring, toilet paper holder, WHB soap holder and bath soap holder. Main contractors profit on NJM Limited, as above

125.0 0

Nr. 80.00 10,000

A51.1.2

51,250

9.5c

Supply and fix joinery shelving Supply and fix joinery shelving to be fixed to limestone single walls capable to take a minimum load of 32kg, design and material yet to be defined. 2.00 PRO V

A54.1.1

Approx. 2,500 linear meters

7,164

14,328

The client would go to the main contractor, supplier or sub-contractor and selects that person who he would like to do the works. After the selection these person/people, they must stay in contact with the main contractor. The only thing that the supplier could be affect is the cost of the material. The last factor is the provisional sum. The value of the provisional sum could change because of the changes occurring during the work being done. This could result in material, overheads, labor and the profit to increase.

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P9.6 Give examples of three different methods of tendering that can be used for the main contract, sub-contract works or supply packages and explain how these may affect pricing strategies. The three methods of tendering are: The Open Tendering, This type is used where it could create or provide benefits for the potential providers. Benefits of open tenders are: Ensuring fairness to potential providers. Improving decision making by considering a range of potential purchasing options. Identifying new potential providers. Assisting to establish reasonable prices for services. Using competition to improving the efficiency and quality of services for clients. If opting for an open tender the number of potential responses is larger and as so the lead agency may use a multi-stage tender comprising requests to guarantee that the responses is manageable and as big as possible so that the costs are kept to a minimum. The Selective Tendering, A selective tender takes place when the client selects which company or companies will be invited to tender for the business. An example of such could be that a particular company could have left its contact details to this particular client in the past and when that same client started a project he would choose them. The Negotiating Tendering The Negotiating tender method is a simple method of how to do the work. Here the same people who do the tender decide on a contractor. After the contractor is chosen, they would set up a meeting regarding the tender. By using the

negotiating tender one could distinguish the difference in prices that other contractors would have given them for that tender. In such situations the
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client would know the people and companies selected and as so many times work are carried out faster and better.

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M9.4 From the given sheet, prepare the relevant Bar Bending Schedules for the required reinforcement. From such schedules prepare appropriate Tender BOQs and explain how your chosen method of tendering matches the different nature of each project listed below: a) The supply only of all reinforcement and related accessories b) Sub-contract works for all the cutting and bending of all the required steel, and c) The main-contract package including for the supply, cutting, bending and fixing on site of all the required concrete, formworks and reinforcement.

Project Name: QS Name: Kurt Spiteri ____________________ Val Ref: ____________________ Date:

File Ref:

Sheet No:

____________________

Description / Ref:

Description / Ref:

2/2.2 0 2/2.4 0.45 0 4.1 4

Formwork Footings

for

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2/6.8 1.05 14. 28

Formwork for Walls

Concrete Footings 2.40 2.20 0.45 2.3 76 cm

Concrete Walls 2/1.6 5 2.1.4 5 4/0.1 5 1.0 71

cm

REF
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DESCRIPTION

CONTR. QTY

UNI T

RAT E

TOT VALUE

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9.4a A52.1.1. 1

Supply Only

Supply only of high yield / mild steel reinforcement bars, supplied by SL Limited (Nominated Supplier) Bent (i) R6 (ii) R10 (iii) R12 (iv) Y20 Straight (i) R6 (ii) R10

0.01 0.03 0.04 0.16

tns tns tns tns

0.02 0.05

tns tns %

A52.1.2

Main contractor s profit on SL Limited, Nominated supplier, as above

9.4b A51.1.1. 1

Cutting and Bending of reinforcement Cutting and bending of reinforcement from YC Limited (Nominated Sub-contractor) Bent (i) R6 (ii) R10 (iii) R12 (iv) Y20 Straight (i) R6 (ii) R10

0.01 0.03 0.04 0.16

tns tns tns tns

0.02 0.05

tns tns %

A51.1.2

Main contractors profit on YC Limited, Nominated sub-contractor, as above.

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9.4c E05.1.0. 0.1 E05.7.1. 0.1

Supply, Cut, Bend, Fix of concrete, formworks and reinforcement In situ concrete, foundations, reinforced In situ concrete, walls, thickness 150 mm, reinforced 2 m3

m3

E20.1.1. 3

Formwork for in situ concrete, sides of Foundations, plain vertical, height 250 500mm Formwork for in situ concrete, walls, vertical

m2

E20.12.0 .1

14

m2

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Bar Bending Schedule;

Memb er Bar type 1 Bar Mark 01 02 03 04 05 06 08 09 05 06 08 10 05 06 07 08 10 Type & Size Y20 R12 Y20 R12 R10 R10 R6 R6 R10 R10 R6 R6 R10 R10 R10 R6 R6 No. of memb er 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 No. in each 12 8 11 7 8 16 8 8 5 10 8 8 5 4 6 8 8 Total numb er 12 8 11 7 16 32 16 16 5 10 8 8 5 4 6 8 8 Lengt h 2800 2800 3000 3000 1690 1625 790 1410 1690 1625 790 1610 1690 1625 1130 790 1610 Total Lengt h 33600 22400 33000 21000 27040 52000 12640 22560 8450 16250 6320 12880 8450 6500 6780 6320 12880 Total Weight 82.86 19.89 81.38 18.65 16.66 32.03 46.77 83.47 52.05 10.01 23.38 47.66 52.05 40.04 41.77 23.39 47.66

Shape

Bar type 2

Bar type 3

Bar type 4

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D9.3 Examine and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft Excel and AutoCAD for facilitating the estimating, tendering and on-site progress measurements and bills. There are quite a few advantages and disadvantages in using Microsoft Excel. The advantages are;
If you have the Microsoft Office in your PC, you don't need anything else to be

installed in your computer. You are good to go and can start with your programming straight away.
If you are a beginner, you can easily learn the Excel VBA Programming

because you are half familiar with the programming platform that you are going to use, which is Excel.

you can start with small Excel application and as the need grows especially on records that are getting huge, you can still use the same Excel application and upgrade your database platform from Excel to other highend like Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, etc.

Excel is capable of connecting directly to OLAP databases and can be integrated in Pivot Tables.

Excel is portable. You can send it to someone through email.

Excel application also has its disadvantages. But these disadvantages are sometimes having some workaround that can be done to fix or sometimes there are little effect that you can just live with them;
When you develop your application into one file it can be huge and will make

your program execution very slow

When you separate functions to multiple files, Excel files are prone to get lost

in your hard drive especially when you break your application to too many files. You should practice a good folders/sub-directories management.

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you can store. But when you reach the 65k lines limit, you can convert it easily to Access and the rest of the application is can still be used.
If you can send Excel via email, you can accidentally send your file to

someone who should not have it or not authorized to have it. If you compare 2D CAD, against old-school design / draughting using drawing boards, you'll already know, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. A few advantages of 2D CAD: Reduced design timescales. Reuse of designs. Drawing errors can be corrected easily. Drawings can be sent/received via email in seconds. Disadvantages: Time & cost of implementing the CAD system. Time & cost of training people to use the CAD. Time & cost of migrating legacy drawings into CAD format.

If you compare the use of 3D CAD against drawing board draughting. The list of disadvantages pretty much stays the same, whilst the list of advantages grows further. Advantages of 3D CAD: More stylish /complex products can be designed using 3D surfacing. Parametric modeling allows many design iterations to be generated & evaluated quickly. Designs can be analyzed and optimized virtually using finite element analysis. Clearance/interference checks can be made easily 3D CAD data can be imported directly in to CAM software, further reducing timescales and mistakes from interpretation of 2D drawings.

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