EValuate Estimating, Cost Planning &

Post-Contract Software

Construction Cost Planning and Bill Production

Utilising Cost Planning, a project estimate can evolve from single line budget, through an elemental/trade package cost model to a detailed cost plan. Allowing you to react quickly as the design information is developed.

At project inception, full details of the project are entered, and a status and version assigned. These details [location, building classification, GiFA (m2)], allow the project costs to be auto-archived against defined criteria.

Where applicable, a ‘Schedule of Areas’ with their respective GiFA (m2) and number of functional units are entered. On accessing the main cost planning take-off and pricing screen, the ‘Schedule of Areas’ are clearly displayed in tabs across the screen.

EValuate uses indicative cost per m2 rates for those elements where little or no information is available, yet will allow measurement and pricing of items at a specified item level of detail within the same project.

At any stage, the project can be copied forward to create the next version, and the level of detail in the project amplified. At each stage versions may be benchmarked/compared to original or previous cost plan to highlight cost changes; the definition and basis of costing can be drawn from different sources including historic benchmarked projects, pre-defined templates, composite pricing libraries, or other marked tested sources.

Accompanying the module is a full elemental cost planning report pack which may be tailored to fit with existing internal reporting methodologies using the integrated report generator.

Headline Functions

Single line budgeting, elemental / trade package modelling to detailed cost plan options
Supporting traditional 2-stage tendering and cost planning methods
Detailed project classification & historic benchmarking available
Measure & price at an element, package or specified item level of detail
Full versioning control through all iterations of project costing
Benchmarking versions
Multi-locational sortation views & reporting available
Multi-level pricing on a rate, lump sum or cost per m2 basis
Full BCIS elemental quantity cost analysis
Project GiFA m2 and Schedule of Areas GiFA m2 cost per m2 reporting
Re-use descriptions, dimensions from pre-defined templates, or previous projects
Direct keyboard entry, spreadsheet and traditional dimensions editor
Importing dimensions from predefined spreadsheets
Project constants, Dimension copying and linking options
Report generator for own report create

EValuate Bill Production

EValuate has been designed to meet all contractor work winning processes needs. Where the project dictates that BQ’s are taken-off internally, these can be measured in the system in a manner similar to traditional PQS packages. This includes the ability to take off elementally, in work packages or to any defined contract sum analysis using the powerful EValuate sort routines. EValuate supports a number of standard method libraries including SMM7 and CESMM. These library structures support resource outputs to speed up the take-off to tender price submission process.

Headline Functions

Includes Smm7 and CESMM3 libraries as standard
Ability of taking off and reporting to any defined contract sum analysis e.g. Locations and building elements
Definable take-off templates to speed BQ production
Full manual and digitised take-off facilities in a traditional, and/or Microsoft Excel style spreadsheet view are available (including detailed side-cast calculations area)
Ability to copy and link DIMS (i.e. link several items to key fundamental quantities), adds & deducts and run different measurement ‘options’/’scenarios’
Print DIMS (individually or collectively for the project)
A range of customisable BQ reports are available
CITE exports are available
Tender Analysis