VISUALCOST VCPRO5 BILL OF QUANTITIES
A Bill of Quantities (BOQ) is not only a List of Materials but also a List of Activities required for the execution of a Project.Compiling a Project Estimate
A BOQ can be used to compile a Project Estimate quickly.
Simply select a previous Estimate, select and copy the applicable
Bill Items (Cost Items: Materials and/or Activities), then select
the name of the new Estimate and paste the selection.
In the new Estimate, add the quantities and update the Unit Rates
(Item prices) to complete the Estimate.
Import / export
You can also import an Estimate or Inquiry from Excel or ASCII,
price the items, add your markup and export the Estimate back
to Excel and e-mail it to your client from within Visualcost VCrpo5.
Acquisition of materials and services
After you have priced the materials and linked the names of vendors
or subcontractors who supplied you with the prices, VCpro5 displays
the Project's requirements in the Project Replenish List, which
enables your Purchase department to create Purchase Orders for
materials and services required for the Project.
Project Planner
You can use the Project Planner not only the create a Bar chart
of project activities but also determine when you require the
materials and services.
Project Analysis
VCpro5's Project Analysis can help you to monitor the costs of
Projects.
It displays for instance the Allowed (estimated) and Actually
used quantities and costs of any selected Project for any selected
time span, side by side.
This information can help you to detect unacceptable differences
and allows you to take corrective action at the earliest possible
time.
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Cost items are grouped are grouped by Headers such as Siteworks.
Subheaders (not shown in the above gif) of short or lengthy descriptions can be inserted before every cost item.
Markup
You can input a global markup for all cost items or edit the markup
of individual cost items or groups of cost items.
Takeoff
and input of Quantities
You can add the quantities by typing them next to the cost items
or use a Digitizer.
Unit
Rates
Unit Rates are the costs of materials or activities per Unit (per
ft2, m2, cy, m3 etc.) You can simply enter them and then select
the vendor or subcontractor from whom you received the price,
or have Unit Rates computed by way of linking pre-defined Cost
Clusters.
Cost items with entered Unit Rates are marked with a yellow icon.
Cost items with calculated Unit Rates are marked with a blue icon.
Edit
calculated Unit Rates
You edit calculated Unit Rates quickly in BOQ Resources List when
clicking the Resources button of the Estimate's BOQ. When you
edit the price of cement for instance, all Cost items using cement
will be re-calculated and updated automatically.
Cost
Clusters
You can create a library of Clusters of Resources (Materials,
Labor, Plant etc. with their respective quantities and costs)
and link them to activities. The above image shows the activity
Half brickwall in foundations with the Cluster Half brickwall
- Material and the Cluster Half brickwall, 500 b/day 1BL, 2W linked
to it.
When linking the Cost Cluster, VCpro5 can calculate the quantities
of materials required for the activity.
Sales
tax
Is automatically added to every item if set up when creating the
Estimate header (Name, number, client etc.) but can subsequently
be edited or omitted for individual item.
Names
of vendors and/or subcontractors
When clicking the Resources button of the above-shown window,
you can update item- and material prices and select the names
of vendors or subcontractors who offered the prices. Their names
will also be listed in the above-mentioned Project Replenish List
next to every required material or other cost item.
Measure
units
Both standard and metic units are available for selection. You
can however add a unit if not found in the list.