Quiz 1 Flashcards
Eligibility documents should have the following:
- Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility Requirements
- Format and Signing Eligibility Documents
Use equations that express the statistical relationship between building parameters and cost of the building
Parametric Estimates
These provisions detail more than just the deadline to complete your work.
TIme
The construction contract should provide how these disagreements should be dealt with.
Claims and Disputes
Cost required to perform all the work
Contractor
A set of precise and clear specifications is a prerequisite for Bidders to respond realistically and competitively to the requirements of the Procuring Entity without qualifying or conditioning their Bids.
Specifications
the 3rd type of changes that may be allowable under contract.
Minor Changes
such as crushed stone, crushed gravel or natural gravel with particles retained on a 5mm sieve.
Coarse Aggregates
This document shall include but not limited to the Invitation to Bidders:
- Scope of Bid
- Source of Funds
- Procedure for clarifications
- Bid preparation – form
- Language
- Pricing and currencies
- Bid evaluation criteria and procedures
- Closing Date
- Bid submission procedure
- Corrections
- Bid Validity
When a Contract has been entered into, to provide a priced Bill of Quantities for use in the periodic valuation of Works executed.
Bill of Quantities
where the designing engineer specify the mixture proportion.
Prescribed Mix
This document is intended to assist the Procuring Entity in providing the specific information and requirements in relation to corresponding clauses in the Eligibility Documents and has to be prepared for each specific procurement.
Eligibility Data Sheet
This will outline the circumstances in the contract
Suspension & Termination
Approximate cost of the Project
Owner
Contents of Philippine Bidding Documents (PBDs)
- Invitation to Apply for Eligibility and to Bid (IAEB)
- Eligibility Documents
- Eligibility Data Sheet
- Instructions to Bidders (ITB)
- Bid Data Sheet (BDS)
- General Conditions of Contract (GCC)
- Special Conditions of Contract (SCC)
- Specifications
- Drawings
- Bill of Quantities
must be strong enough to carry the designed load.
Hardened Concrete
an artificial stone as a result of mixing cement, fine aggregates, coarse aggregates and water.
Plain Concrete
select an optimum proportion of cement, water and aggregates to produce a concrete that will satisfy the requirements of strength, workability, durability and economy.
Concrete Mixing
Issued by the Procuring Entity to provide the prospective bidders all the necessary information that they need to prepare their bids.
Bidding Documents
Who issued the Documents that provides the prospective bidders all the necessary information the they need to prepare their bids?
Procuring Entity
should be economically produced.
Concrete
When will be the final proportion which will be adopted in concrete mixing must be established
Actual Trial and Adjustment on the site (to attain desired strength of concrete)
To provide sufficient information on the quantities of works to be performed to enable Bids to be prepared efficiently and accurately
Bill of Quantities
What includes the Document Review?
- Bid Documents
- Contract Documents
- Plans and Drawings
- Technical Specifications
- Methodology
Factors Affecting Decision to Bid
Investment of time and money
Risk during construction
Labor and equipment
Ongoing projects
Geographic location
Complexity of project
Owner and designer’s reputation
Profit
To perform this type of estimates, the contractor must have a complete of contract documents
Detailed Estimates
a simplified map showing the location of the site in relation to the local geography, indicating major roads, posts, airports, and railroads, is helpful.
Drawings
Encompass every aspect of the project so it can be hard to boil everything down into a single article. Still, the following are some of the more important provisions that everyone should take note of before signing a contract.
General conditions
there’s always the chance that one side might consider something to be minor while the other side sees it as a material change to the job.
Minor Changes
What are the factors that is included in Quantity Take-off?
- Construction method
- Plan reading and review
- Calculate the quantity of material
- Unit of measure
- Cost of material
- Cost of labor
- Cost of equipment
- Cost of subcontracted works
- Common error
- Direct cost and Indirect cost
- Risk
- Profit
What are the purposes of Estimates?
- Determining the feasibility of a project
- Calculating an approximate price of a project
- Providing value analysis or engineering
- Calculating and establishing bid prices
- Determining project budget in cost control
Invitation should indicate the following:
- Date of Availability of the Bidding Documents
- Place where the Bidding Documents may be purchased
- Deadline for the submission and receipts of bids
- any important bid evaluation criteria
a concrete with reinforcement embedded in such a manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces.
Reinforced Concrete
This document shall include but not limited to the General Conditions of Contract:
- Scope of Contract
- Contractor’s Obligations
- Warranty
- Liability of the Contractor
- Advance Payments
such as crushed stone sand, crushed gravel sand or natural sand with particles passing on a 5 mm sieve.
Fine Aggregates
This section of the Bidding Documents provides the information necessary for Bidders to prepare responsive bids, in accordance with the requirements of the Procuring Entity.
Instruction to Bidders
If this is in the prime contract, subcontractors will often be bound by similar terms. Regardless – it’s important to understand whether change directives can be made and how they’ll be managed.
Changes in Directive
Cost of various design alternatives
Designer
When they’re validly executed (pursuant to the contract), change orders become a part of the original contract.
Change Orders
could withstand the conditions to which it is exposed to serve.
Hardened Concrete
What are the factors that is included in Site Visit?
- Available space for storage of materials
- Control of traffic
- Security
- Existing under and above ground facilities
- Zonal description of site
- Local laws governing the site
have the potential for creating chaos – so make sure the general conditions discuss how change orders must be agreed upon, executed, and billed.
Change Orders
This document is intended to assist the Procuring Entity in providing the specific information and requirements in relation to corresponding clauses in the Eligibility Documents and has to be prepared for each specific procurement.
Eligibility Data Sheet
This document provides information necessary for prospective bidders.
Eligibility Documents
can get risky if they aren’t limited by the general conditions of the contract.
Changes in Directive
must be drafted to permit the widest possible competition and, at the same time, present a clear statement of the required standards of materials, Plant, other supplies, and workmanship to be provided.
Specifications
This section is intended to assist the Procuring Entity in providing the specific information in relation to corresponding clauses in the ITB included in Section II, and has to be prepared for each specific procurement.
Bid Data Sheet
For clarity, it might be a good idea to set parameters for what’s considered a “minor” change under the agreement.
Minor Changes
must show sufficient details to enable bidders to understand the type and complexity of the work involved and the price the Bill of Quantities.
Drawings
where the contractor is responsible in selecting the mixture proportion to achieve the required strength and workability
Designed Mix
Amendments to the contract
Change Orders
should also be touched on in time section
Delays and extensions
These are simple adjustments to the project that don’t affect either the price of the time to complete performance.
Minor Changes
Used in the equation which includes gross square footage, number of floors, length of perimeter, percentage of building that is common space and so forth
Building Parameters
Determination of the quantities and cost of everything that is required to complete the project.
Detailed Estimates
Provides information that enables potential bidders to decide whether to participate in the procurement at hand.
Invitation to Bid
What includes for the Preparation for Detailed Estimates?
- Document Review
- Site Visit
- Quantity Take off
- Direct and Indirect Cost
- Risk of Uncertainties
- Profit
These provisions authorize the owner to unilaterally make changes to the work, with the price and schedule changes will be agreed upon later.
Changes in Directive
Disagreements arise all the time on construction projects.
Claim and Disputes
Seems fairly obvious
Time
read in conjunction with the Special Conditions of Contract and other documents listed therein, should be a complete document expressing all the rights and obligations of the parties.
General Conditions of Contract
Types of Cement
- Ordinary Portland Cement
- Rapid Hardening Portland Cement
- Portland Blast furnace or Sulphate
- Low Heat Portland Cement
- Portland Pozzolan Cement
- High Alumina Cement
must be workable which means that it could freely flow to fill all voids inside the form
Fresh Concrete
Prepared by comparing the cost of the proposed project to a completed project
Project Comparison Estimates
the clauses in this section are intended to assist the Procuring Entity in providing contract-specific information in relation to corresponding clauses in the General Conditions of Contract.
Special Conditions of Contract
These can include anything from the owner having funding issues to any delays the project might encounter.
Suspension & Termination
will determine the full contract price and how payments are structured.
Price & Payments
What is the formula of Forecast Unit Cost?
UC=(A+4B+C)/6
Prepared by multiplying square footage of a building by a cost per square foot and then adjusting the prose to compensate for differences in the building heights, length of the building parameter and other building components.
Square-foot Estimates
Essentially a mini-agreements to adjust the work, price, and schedule of the initial contract.
Change Orders
