Tendering and Pricing Trades: How to Handle Them for Your Project

Task 1: Tendering

Task 1: Tendering Before the client gives you the tender documents you have asked for, they are interested in knowing how you and your company will handle the process. (a) Compare the two most commonly used methods of tendering and discuss their differences. (b) Which one would you use for the current project? Explain why; and include your reason for not using the other. (c) List four criteria for evaluating whether contractors are prequalified for the project. Task 2: Pricing trades After a few months the client sends you some documents to complete a tender. This includes a schedule of quantities, tender drawings and specifications. Project requirements The client wants to start this project in the last quarter of this year. The site is on good ground with no hard rock and soft spot issues. No demolition is required and there is sufficient access for plant/equipment to be used. Whenever there is an item within the SOQ below, for which the price has not been provided within this assignment (either listed or in any of the quotes), then you are required to ascertain these yourselves. Contacting suppliers etc by phone or their websites is a good way of doing this. Your company will perform excavations and your manager asks you to price the groundworks. You are to use the information provided in Appendix A: Excavation, along with the following information. Assume the hourly excavation machinery rate for the groundworks is inclusive of driver, travel to site, fuel costs, and so on.