Elements and Performance Criteria
- Evaluate contract risk.
- Invitation to tender is reviewed and analysed.
- Contract documents pertinent to the project are obtained and examined in detail.
- Conditions of contract are examined and confirmed in accordance with legislative and organisational requirements.
- Organisation's current work load is verified to determine capacity to meet contract timelines.
- Risk analysis is conducted and degree of risk in the project is investigated and established.
- Management team is consulted in relation to likely construction approach and resources.
- Client is advised of the intention or otherwise to submit a tender response.
- Manage the tender process.
- Manage the development of human and physical resource costs.
- Determining current equipment and materials charge-out rates is monitored.
- Establishment of labour rates for elements of work is monitored and managed.
- Project elements are analysed to ensure they conform to organisational contracting processes.
- Rates to be applied to elements of the work are arbitrated on, to ensure these are compared to relevant existing records of costs.
- Staff members are supervised to ensure appropriate rates are applied to the bill of quantities.
- Extensions of human and physical resource costs are reviewed and monitored to ensure their accurate translation into the estimate summary.
- Staff are monitored as they calculate and extend values for preliminaries and overheads.
- Staff are monitored to ensure they are calculating and including all supplementary costs.
- Prepare complete tender documentation and operating margins.
- Conditions of contract are reviewed and assessed to ensure there are no variations to the tender.
- Subcontractor quotes are reviewed and assessed to ensure there are no variations to the tender.
- Availability of plant and equipment is checked and confirmed.
- Delivery schedules are confirmed and material suppliers are followed up.
- Evaluate tender documentation prior to submission.
- Staff preparation of the schedules, which detail the sequence of work, is supervised and managed.
- Progress of the tender development is monitored for timeliness and accuracy.
- Documentation is reviewed to ensure that tender is finalised in standard industry format for the client.
- Final tender documentation is appraised for completeness and allocation of critical rates and allowances prior to its submission.