The following ranges apply:
Learning Outcomes 1 and 2
• Contract quantities and cost monitoring systems:
- contractual procedures and meetings
- organisational procedures and meetings
- open book accounting
- electronic recording
• Quantities and cost data:
- materials
- plant
- people
- sub-contractors
- dayworks
- periodic valuations
- retention sums
- forecasts of expenditure
- performance information
- contract programme and progress
• Decision makers:
- the client
- contractors
- consultants
- sub-contractors
- suppliers
- internal management
• Commercial corrective action:
- re-negotiating prices and fees
- re-negotiating payment conditions
- agreeing additional costs
- changing suppliers
- carrying out a value engineering exercise
- considering off-site construction
- considering standardisation
- regulating expenditure to conform with budgets
- agreeing additional costs
- making a contract claim
• Opportunities for cost saving:
- modify project management structure
- reduce waste
- use new technology
- manage energy consumption
- use recycled materials
- seek permission to use alternative materials and/or source of materials
- reduce plant/labour resources
- apply lean construction processes
Learning Outcomes 3 and 4
• Valuing work in progress:
- measure quantities
- suppliers' accounts and valuations
- project records
- inspection of works
- agreed variations
- by invoice
• Contract - type:
- main contract
- sub-contract
- partnering
- lump sum
- design and construct
- schedule based
- prime cost based
- hybrid
- firm price
- fluctuating price
- labour and materials
- labour only
- material supply only
- service contracts
- design warranties
• Variations:
- costs
- quantity
- quality
- progress
Learning Outcomes 5 and 6
• How payments for contracts will be made with:
- clients
- within the organisation
- external auditing
- legal requirements
• Income:
- agreed fees
- quantification of work completed
- agreed recoverable expenses
- VAT
• Expenditure:
- employment costs
- capital plant and equipment
- materials
- liabilities
- subcontract costs
- consumables
• Records may be:
- documents
- electronic
Learning Outcomes 7 and 8
• Contractual parties:
- client
- sub contractors
- suppliers
- statutory authorities and utilities
• Contract - type:
- main contract
- sub-contract
- partnering
- lump sum
- design and construct
- schedule based
- prime cost based
- hybrid
- firm price
- fluctuating price
- labour and materials
- labour only
- material supply only
- service contracts
- design warranties
• Additional costs - resulting from:
- re-measurement
- valuation of variations
- loss and expense arising from breaches of contract
- agreed extensions of time
- damages arising from extra-contractual consideration including legal judgements
- additional resources
• Information sources:
- contract documents e.g. specifications, quantities, drawings
- revised contract documents
- variations issued
- site records including photographs
- agreed rates of payment
- agreed method of calculation
- legislation e.g. tax and NI payments, minimum wage
- company accounts
• Analyse:
- claimants analysis
-respondents analysis
This unit must be assessed in a work environment, in accordance with the ConstructionSkills‘ Consolidated Assessment Strategy for Construction and the Built Environment.
Assessors for this unit must have verifiable, current industry experience and a sufficient depth of relevant occupational expertise and knowledge, and must use a combination of assessment methods as defined in the Consolidated Assessment Strategy.
Workplace evidence of skills cannot be simulated.