Common use of Bill of Quantities Clause in Contracts

Bill of Quantities. Basis of Contract Sum 26.1 The quality and quantity of the Works as set out in the Bills of Quantities shall be the basis of the Contract Sum. Any error in description or quantity or omission of Works from the Bills of Quantities shall not vitiate this Contract but shall be rectified and the amount in respect of such rectification shall be added to or deducted from the Contract Sum as the case may be. 26.2 The Government reserves the right to adjust the prices and rates in the Bills of Quantities submitted by the Contractor to ensure their reasonableness before acceptance of tender and the decision of the Government shall be final. 26.3 Any adjustment of the prices and/or rates in the Bills of Quantities required under clause 26.2 and any arithmetical error or omission in the prices or rates and/or calculations of the Contractor in the Bills of Quantities shall before the signing of this Contract be so rectified and adjusted that when correctly calculated, the total amount in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities shall represent the same amount as the tender amount in the Form of Tender. The tender amount shown in the Form of Tender shall remain unaltered but the nett aggregate amount of the difference between the total adjusted amount in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities and the tender amount shown in the Form of Tender, whether a net deduction or nett addition, shall be calculated as a percentage of the total adjusted amount shown in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities and all prices and/or rates throughout the Bills of Quantities shall be subject to such percentage discounts or premiums as the case may be. Provided always that Provisional and Prime Cost Sums shall be excluded from such calculation and shall not be subject to such percentage discount or premium. Standard Method of Measurement 26.4 The Bills of Quantities, unless otherwise expressly stated in respect of any specified item or items, shall be deemed to have been prepared in accordance with the principles of the Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works as published by the Institution of Surveyors (Malaysia) or Civil Engineering Method of Measurement published by Institution of Civil Engineers (London) or Method of Measurement as set out in Bill of Quantities. Provisional Quantities 26.5 Unless where the quantities of the Works or any part thereof are stated as ‘provisional’ in the Bills of Quantities such quantities are firm and the Works shall not be subject to re-measurement unless the Bills of Quantities are proven to be erroneous and shall be dealt with under clause 26.1. 26.6 Where the quantities of Works are stated as ‘provisional’ in the Bills of Quantities, such quantities are the estimated quantities which shall not be taken as the actual and correct quantities of the Works to be executed by the Contractor in the fulfilment of his obligations under this Contract. The amount to be paid to the Contractor in respect of such Works upon completion of this Contract shall be ascertained by re-measurement of the work as it is actually executed and valued in accordance with clause 25.1 hereof, after adjustment if necessary, as provided in clause 25.3 hereof. 26.7 For the purpose of clause 26.6, the amount to be paid to the Contractor shall be set off against the amount for such work in the Bills of Quantities, and the balance shall be added to or deducted from the Contract Sum, as the case may be.

Bill of Quantities. Basis of Contract SumBILL OF QUANTITIES Preamble 26.1 1. The quality and quantity of the Works as set out in the Bills Bill of Quantities shall be read in conjunction with the Instructions to Bidders, Conditions of Contract, Technical Specification and Drawings. 2. The quantities given in the Bill of Quantities are estimated and provisional, and are given to provide a common basis for bidding. The basis of payment will be the Contract Sum. Any error in description or quantity or omission actual quantities of Works from the Bills of Quantities shall not vitiate this Contract but shall be rectified work ordered and the amount in respect of such rectification shall be added to or deducted from the Contract Sum carried out, as the case may be. 26.2 The Government reserves the right to adjust the prices and rates in the Bills of Quantities submitted measured by the Contractor to ensure their reasonableness before acceptance of tender and verified by the decision of Engineer and valued at the Government shall be final. 26.3 Any adjustment of the rates and prices and/or rates tendered in the Bills of Quantities required under clause 26.2 and any arithmetical error or omission in the prices or rates and/or calculations of the Contractor in the Bills of Quantities shall before the signing of this Contract be so rectified and adjusted that when correctly calculated, the total amount in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities shall represent the same amount as the tender amount in the Form of Tender. The tender amount shown in the Form of Tender shall remain unaltered but the nett aggregate amount of the difference between the total adjusted amount in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities and the tender amount shown in the Form of Tender, whether a net deduction or nett addition, shall be calculated as a percentage of the total adjusted amount shown in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities and all prices and/or rates throughout the Bills of Quantities shall be subject to such percentage discounts or premiums as the case may be. Provided always that Provisional and Prime Cost Sums shall be excluded from such calculation and shall not be subject to such percentage discount or premium. Standard Method of Measurement 26.4 The Bills priced Bill of Quantities, unless where applicable, and otherwise expressly at such rates and prices as the Engineer may fix within the terms of Contract. 3. The rates and prices tendered in the priced Bill of Quantities shall, except in sofar as it is otherwise provided under the Contract include all constructional plant, labour, supervision, materials, erection, maintenance, insurance , profit, taxes and duties, together with all general risks, liabilities and obligations set out or implied in the Contract. 4. The rates and prices shall be quoted entirely in Indian Currency. 5. A rate or price shall be entered against each item in the Bill of Quantities, whether quantities are stated in respect or not. The cost of any specified item Items against which the Contractor has failed to enter a rate or items, price shall be deemed to have been prepared be covered by other rates and prices entered in the Bill of Quantities. 6. The whole cost of complying with the provisions of the Contract shall be included in the items provided in the priced Bill of Quantities , and where no Items are provided the cost shall be deemed to be distributed among the rates and prices entered for the related Items of Work. 7. General directions and descriptions of work and materials are not necessarily repeated or summarized in the Bill of Quantities. References to the relevant sections of the contract documentation shall be made before entering rates or prices against each item in the Bill of Quantities. 8. The method of measurement of completed work for payment shall be in accordance with the principles of the Standard Method of Measurement of Building specification for Road and Bridge Works as published by the Institution Ministry of Surveyors Surface Transport (Malaysia) or Civil Engineering Method of Measurement published edition) 9. Errors will be corrected by Institution of Civil Engineers (London) or Method of Measurement as set out in Bill of Quantities. Provisional Quantities 26.5 Unless where the quantities Employer for any arithmetic errors pursuant to Clause 29 of the Works or any part thereof are stated Instructions to Bidders. 10. Rock is defined as ‘provisional’ all materials which, in the Bills opinion of Quantities such quantities are firm the Engineer, require blasting, or the use of metal wedges and sledgehammers, or the Works shall use of compressed air drilling for its removal, and which cannot be subject extracted by ripping with a tractor of at least 150 kw with a single rear mounted heavy duty ripper. Sl. No Description of Item (with brief specification and reference to re-measurement unless book of specification) Quantity Unit Rate Amount In Figures In Words Note: 1. Item for which no rate or price has been entered in will not be paid for by the Bills of Quantities are proven to be erroneous Employer when executed and shall be dealt with under clause 26.1deemed covered by the other rates and prices in the bill of quantities (Refer : ITB Clause 13.2 and GCC Clause 41.2). 26.6 Where the quantities of Works are stated as ‘provisional’ in the Bills of Quantities, such quantities are the estimated quantities which 2. Unit rates and prices shall not be taken as the actual and correct quantities of the Works to be executed quoted by the Contractor bidder in the fulfilment of his obligations under this Contract. The amount to be paid to the Contractor in respect of such Works upon completion of this Contract shall be ascertained by re-measurement of the work as it is actually executed and valued in accordance with clause 25.1 hereof, after adjustment if necessary, as provided in clause 25.3 hereofIndian rupee [ITB Clause 14.1]. 26.7 For 3. Where there is a discrepancy between the purpose of clause 26.6rate in figures and words, the amount to be paid to rates in words will govern [ITB Clause 27.1 (a)]. 4. Where there is a discrepancy between the Contractor shall be set off against the amount for such work in the Bills of Quantities, unit rate and the balance line item total resulting from multiplying the unit rate by quantity, the unit rate quoted shall be added to or deducted from the Contract Sum, as the case may begovern [ITB Clause 27.1(b].

Bill of Quantities. Basis of Contract SumBILL OF QUANTITIES Preamble 26.1 1. The quality and quantity of the Works as set out in the Bills Bill of Quantities shall be read in conjunction with the Instructions to Bidders, Conditions of Contract, Technical Specification and Drawings. 2. The quantities given in the Bill of Quantities are estimated and provisional, and are given to provide a common basis for bidding. The basis of payment will be the Contract Sum. Any error in description or quantity or omission actual quantities of Works from the Bills of Quantities shall not vitiate this Contract but shall be rectified work ordered and the amount in respect of such rectification shall be added to or deducted from the Contract Sum carried out, as the case may be. 26.2 The Government reserves the right to adjust the prices and rates in the Bills of Quantities submitted measured by the Contractor to ensure their reasonableness before acceptance of tender and verified by the decision of Engineer and valued at the Government shall be final. 26.3 Any adjustment of the rates and prices and/or rates tendered in the Bills of Quantities required under clause 26.2 and any arithmetical error or omission in the prices or rates and/or calculations of the Contractor in the Bills of Quantities shall before the signing of this Contract be so rectified and adjusted that when correctly calculated, the total amount in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities shall represent the same amount as the tender amount in the Form of Tender. The tender amount shown in the Form of Tender shall remain unaltered but the nett aggregate amount of the difference between the total adjusted amount in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities and the tender amount shown in the Form of Tender, whether a net deduction or nett addition, shall be calculated as a percentage of the total adjusted amount shown in the Summary of the Bills of Quantities and all prices and/or rates throughout the Bills of Quantities shall be subject to such percentage discounts or premiums as the case may be. Provided always that Provisional and Prime Cost Sums shall be excluded from such calculation and shall not be subject to such percentage discount or premium. Standard Method of Measurement 26.4 The Bills priced Bill of Quantities, unless where applicable, and otherwise expressly at such rates and prices as the Engineer may fix within the terms of Contract. 3. The rates and prices tendered in the priced Bill of Quantities shall, except in sofar as it is otherwise provided under the Contract include all constructional plant, labour, supervision, materials, erection, maintenance, insurance , profit, taxes and duties, together with all general risks, liabilities and obligations set out or implied in the Contract. 4. The rates and prices shall be quoted entirely in Indian Currency. 5. A rate or price shall be entered against each item in the Bill of Quantities, whether quantities are stated in respect or not. The cost of any specified item Items against which the Contractor has failed to enter a rate or items, price shall be deemed to have been prepared be covered byother rates and prices entered in the Bill of Quantities. 6. The whole cost of complying with the provisions of the Contract shall be included in the items provided in the priced Bill of Quantities , and where no Items are provided the cost shall be deemed to be distributed among the rates and prices entered for the related Items of Work. 7. General directions and descriptions of work and materials are not necessarily repeated or summarized in the Bill of Quantities. References to the relevant sections of the contract documentation shall be made before entering rates or prices against each item in the Bill of Quantities. 8. The method of measurement of completed work for payment shall be in accordance with the principles of the Standard Method of Measurement of Building specification for Road and Bridge Works as published by the Institution Ministry of Surveyors Surface Transport (Malaysia) or Civil Engineering Method of Measurement published edition) 9. Errors will be corrected by Institution of Civil Engineers (London) or Method of Measurement as set out in Bill of Quantities. Provisional Quantities 26.5 Unless where the quantities Employer for any arithmetic errors pursuant to Clause 29 of the Works or any part thereof are stated Instructions to Bidders. 10. Rock is defined as ‘provisional’ all materials which, in the Bills opinion of Quantities such quantities are firm the Engineer, require blasting, or the use of metal wedges and sledgehammers, or the Works shall use of compressed air drilling for its removal, and which cannot be subject extracted by ripping with a tractor of at least 150 kw with a single rear mounted heavy duty ripper. Sl.N o Description of Item (with brief specification and reference to re-measurement unless book of specification) Quantity Unit Rate Amount In Figures In Words Note: 1. Item for which no rate or price has been entered in will not be paid for by the Bills of Quantities are proven to be erroneous Employer when executed and shall be dealt with under clause 26.1deemed covered by the other rates and prices in the bill of quantities (Refer : ITB Clause 13.2 and GCC Clause 41.2). 26.6 Where the quantities of Works are stated as ‘provisional’ in the Bills of Quantities, such quantities are the estimated quantities which 2. Unit rates and prices shall not be taken as the actual and correct quantities of the Works to be executed quoted by the Contractor bidder in the fulfilment of his obligations under this Contract. The amount to be paid to the Contractor in respect of such Works upon completion of this Contract shall be ascertained by re-measurement of the work as it is actually executed and valued in accordance with clause 25.1 hereof, after adjustment if necessary, as provided in clause 25.3 hereofIndian rupee [ITB Clause 14.1]. 26.7 For 3. Where there is a discrepancy between the purpose of clause 26.6rate in figures and words, the amount to be paid to rates in words will govern [ITB Clause 27.1 (a)]. 4. Where there is a discrepancy between the Contractor shall be set off against the amount for such work in the Bills of Quantities, unit rate and the balance line item total resulting from multiplying the unit rate by quantity, the unit rate quoted shall be added to or deducted from the Contract Sum, as the case may begovern [ITB Clause 27.1(b].