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Bill of Quantities Preparation and Tender Pricing

A well structured bill of quantities gives every tenderer the same basis to price and gives the employer control during construction, yet poorly drafted bills invite disputes and inflated claims. This course covers preparing bills of quantities from drawings using recognised measurement conventions. Participants also learn how bills are priced, adjusted and used to value work as projects proceed on African sites.

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What you will be able to do

  • Structure a bill of quantities using standard measurement conventions.
  • Prepare preambles, preliminaries and measured work sections.
  • Draft clear item descriptions that reduce pricing ambiguity.
  • Support tenderers to price a bill consistently.
  • Use the priced bill to value interim work and variations.
  • Reconcile provisional sums and prime cost items at final account.

Course outline

  1. 01Purpose and structure of a bill
  2. 02Measurement conventions and rules
  3. 03Preliminaries and preambles
  4. 04Writing item descriptions
  5. 05Pricing and rate insertion
  6. 06Provisional sums and prime cost items
  7. 07Valuations, variations and final account

Who should attend

Quantity surveyors, cost engineers, estimators, procurement officers and built environment professionals who compile or price bills of quantities.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 to 30 Sep 2026Maseru3US$1,500Closed
29 Sep to 1 Oct 2026Mbabane3US$1,500Register
30 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Lusaka3US$1,500Register
5 to 7 Oct 2026Harare3US$1,500Register
6 to 8 Oct 2026Lilongwe3US$1,500Register
7 to 9 Oct 2026Blantyre3US$1,500Register
12 to 14 Oct 2026Mozambique3US$1,500Register
13 to 15 Oct 2026Nairobi3US$1,500Register
14 to 16 Oct 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500Register
19 to 21 Oct 2026Kigali3US$1,500Register
20 to 22 Oct 2026Kampala3US$1,500Register
21 to 23 Oct 2026Accra3US$1,500Register
26 to 28 Oct 2026Lagos3US$1,500Register
27 to 29 Oct 2026Cairo3US$1,500Register
28 to 30 Oct 2026Mauritius3US$1,500Register
2 to 4 Nov 2026Dubai3US$1,500Register
3 to 5 Nov 2026Online3US$900Register
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Johannesburg3R13,000Register
1 to 3 Dec 2026Cape Town3R13,000Register
2 to 4 Dec 2026Durban3R13,000Register
7 to 9 Dec 2026Pretoria3R13,000Register
8 to 10 Dec 2026Windhoek3US$1,500Register
9 to 11 Dec 2026Gaborone3US$1,500Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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