Cost planning and a bill of quantities, working from the same set of numbers

A cost plan produced early and a bill of quantities produced later should tell the same story about a job. When they're built separately, by different methods, they often don't, and that gap causes real problems.

Two documents, one job, should reconcile

If the cost plan says one figure and the final bill of quantities says something quite different with no clear explanation, someone has to work out why. That reconciliation is easier when both were built to the same elemental structure from the start.

Building them on the same method avoids the gap

Using NRM2 for both the early cost plan and the later bill of quantities means the same elements carry through from one to the other, so differences that do appear can be explained by what actually changed, not by inconsistent methods.

It gives the client one consistent story, not two

A client tracking a project from cost plan to final account wants to see how the number evolved, not be handed two documents that don't obviously relate to each other.

Send your drawings, whatever stage the job is at, and we'll build the cost plan and the bill of quantities on the same method. See a sample estimate to see how they connect.

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