Description
You are required to complete and excel workbook(attached) and also submit a brief overview commentary that critically appraises and justifies the Estimator’s approach to pricing the building work.
Aim: To explore the procedures and processes employed in estimating and tendering for construction work.
Scenario:
Englemere Village in rural Berkshire, lies a few miles from Ascot. The parish council has embarked on a scheme to build a new Village Centre comprising communal meeting rooms, changing rooms and sports facilities, complete with outdoor sports pitches. The scheme is to be financed by the Local Authority, the local community and a Sports Lottery grant. The details are shown on drawings:-
DM/07/A – Elevations
DM/07/B – Ground Floor Plan
DM/07/C – First Floor Plan
DM/07/D – Sections
DM/07/E – Foundations\Slab Layout
DM/07/F – Site Layout
Your company has been invited to tender for the entire project, including the significant landscaping works needed to accommodate the outdoor playing fields, as detailed in the Project Information Schedule. The invitation states that the rules of the tender competition shall be those of the JCT Tendering Practice Note 2012. The tender is to be prepared in accordance with the principles of the CIOB Code of Estimating Practice, latest edition.
Task: As an Assistant Estimator, you have been asked by the Senior Estimator to price the Goundworks on the Englemere Village project, the details of which are given on the extract from the Bills of Quantities. In addition, you have also been asked to price the Preliminaries appertaining to the Goundworks part of the scheme. You are required to provide the following as an interlinked Excel Workbook:-
• A detailed priced preliminaries schedule covering all associated items required to deliver this part of the clients project;
• A detailed breakdown of All-in labour rates for the key occupations to be employed upon the works;
• Calculation of Prime Cost of Daywork Rates for Labour for the key occupations to be employed upon the works;
• A detailed breakdown of costs for the items of plant indicated to be used on the project;
• All-in unit rates for all the excavation and concrete items in the project, as indicated in the extract from the Bills of Quantities;
• Calculations for appropriate additions for overheads and profit to be added to the Prime Costs of Daywork for Labour, Materials and Plant, shown in the Bills of Quantities;
In addition to the completed Excel Workbook, you are required to submit a brief overview commentary that critically appraises and justifies the Estimator’s approach to pricing building work;
1)Pls read the word doc titled(tendering and estimating assignment 2) in the attached zip file for full instruction
2)The excel file the lecturer provided to be used which is already formatted the way he wants it is also in the zip file titled( TE assignment 2 calculation template) the workbook.
3)The drawig required is also provided in the zip file.
4)The word doc in the zip file titled(managing the estimate to tender process is an additional note.
5)Pls listen to all the voice recording in the zip file to enable you complete the excel workbook.
6)The written part of this assignemnt needs to be 1500 words and i have estimated extra 500 words for completing the excel workbook