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Construction · BoQ & Rates
The BoQ is the commercial backbone of the project: every line is a measured quantity times a unit rate, coded to a cost code, and the sum is your Budget At Completion. The Final ERP makes it a living document — measurements substantiate it, bills draw from it, variations amend it, and rate analysis tells you which lines are priced below cost before you bill them.
Bring the estimate in once, then run the whole commercial life of the project against it.
Structure the BoQ
Build sections and line items, each coded to a cost code — the classification that ties billing, cost control and the abstract together. Agree the coding before you import.
Price the line items
Enter or import quantities and unit rates from your Excel or BIM take-off. The priced total becomes the project's Budget At Completion.
Back rates with build-ups
Attach a rate analysis to any line: material, labour, plant and subcontract components summed against the quoted rate.
Handle variations at contract rates
Draft change orders that adjust quantities on contract lines at contract rates — or add new items — and amend the BoQ only on approval.
Read the abstract & Pareto
See cost by cost code with its share of BAC, and the 80/20 view of which lines actually carry the money.
Three pages per project — Items, Abstract, Analysis — plus rate build-ups and variation control. And no, a BoQ is not a BOM: a bill of quantities is a contract pricing document, not a manufacturing parts list, and the product treats them as the different things they are.
Every line carries a cost code, so the same structure drives the abstract, the cost-control rollup (budget vs committed vs actual) and earned value. Import lines in bulk from spreadsheets, or build them item by item.
Behind any quoted rate, build up the components: material, labour, plant and subcontract rows summed to a built-up rate. When the build-up exceeds the quoted rate, the line is flagged — it's priced below cost, and every unit you measure on it loses money. Catch it before the bill, not after.
A variation (change order) drafts quantity changes on existing contract lines at their contract rates, or introduces new items. Nothing touches the BoQ until it's approved — then the bill of quantities, and everything downstream of it, updates.
The Abstract page shows cost by cost code with each code's share of BAC — the 'where is the money' summary for a review meeting. The Analysis page is a Pareto view: the items making up 80% of BAC and the highest rates, because a couple of dozen lines usually dominate everything.
One priced document, four consumers: measurement, billing, variations and earned value all read from and write back to the same BoQ.
The same document goes by different names across markets — the product speaks yours.
Bill of Quantities (BoQ)
UK / India / FIDIC contracts
Estimate / Schedule of Values
US market — the SOV plays the billing-backbone role
Variation = change order
UK/Commonwealth variation · US change order
Import the take-off, code the lines, back the rates — and let measurement, bills and variations run against one commercial backbone.