Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Module Offerings
5509ICPDQS-SEP-PAR
Aims
Aims of the module are to demonstrate an understanding about tendering process of various construction contracts and to apply methods & techniques of construction estimation to produce estimates in different phases of a building and civil engineering construction contracts.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:• Methods of Tendering & procurement routs: Open, selective, negotiated, competitive, serial, framework, Single-stage and two-stage, Tender evaluation and Tender report
• Form of bids (Standard Bidding Documents) and tendering documentation:
• Introduction to FIDIC/ CIDA & compilation of tender documents using standard formats
• "Tender documentation: Advertisement for Bids,
• Information for Bidders, Bid Bond, Bidder qualifications, Invitation, Offer, Acceptance, Award, Securities & Bonds”
• Schedule of rates and its application to calculate unit rates: labour/ plants & machinery of civil & building works.
• Unit rate preparation for BOQ: Use of BSR/ NRM 2
• Operational & commercial factors to produce estimates
• Mark-ups: Profits & overheads
• Provisional & Prime cost sum
• Introduction to RIBA Plan of work 2013 and stages of tendering Introduction to e-tendering
• Software packages for estimation work: MS Excel
Additional Information:A recommended resource list - indicating key reading, virtual and physical learning assistance, is provided to help enable students to undertake self-directed study.
Assessments
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