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UNIVERSITY OF VOCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Year I - Semester - I Examination January 2010
Course Subject : NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN QUANTITY SURVEYING (NDQS-SL) 2009/2011 : Tendering & Estimating (NDQS 105)

Instructions : Answer all questions Duration : 03 Hours

(01)

Describe the information that have to be disclosed by the tenderer's estimator to the material suppliers to obtain a competent quotations from the suppliers to minimise future arguments. (15 marks)

(02)

Describe the steps that have to be followed by the tenderer's estimator ,after obtaining the tender documents up to submitting the same (15 marks)

(03)

Explain 2 no. types of alternative methods of building procurement giving advantages and disadvantages of each method. ( 25 marks) The following is the B.O.Q page of a Tender for huge machine foundations project . Copy this page in your answer script and attend all the arithmetical errors and proposed the percentage adjustment to be done to the all items, other than fixed sums allowed for Preliminaries and Provisional Sums , in order to eliminate these errors (25 marks)

(04)

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item 1 Preliminaries 2 Excavation 3 Concrete 4 Formwork 5 Reinforcement

Description

Unit item m3 m3 m2 t sum

Qty

Rate

Amount 750,000.00

300 560 800 30

350 12000 4000 50000

90,000.00 6,720,000.00 3,200,000.00 1,500,000.00 1,000,000.00 12,360,000.00

6 Provisional sums Total carried to FORM OF TENDER

(05)

Calculate the net unit rate for the following B.O.Q item using your knowledge in labour, material and plant outputs and following cost information (20 marks) "Brickwork in cement and sand (1:5) in half brick wall (110mm thick-(4 1/2")) in ground floor"--------------per square metre

Assumptions Bricks- Rs 5000/= per 1000 Cement- Rs 800/= per 50 kg. bag sand- Rs 4000/per cube ( 100 c.ft /2.83 m3) water- Rs 10/= per gallon/4.5 litres

Skilled labour- Rs. 1000/= per day (8 hr) U.Skilled labour- Rs. 750/= per day (8r)

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