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RIPAC
Ripac is a totally integrated
system for the construction industry providing estimating, cost planning, bill
preparation and contract administration, using one database from feasibility to
final account.
Having been developed over 25
years, RIPAC is now established as the leading system for bill preparation and
contract administration, with users among major client bodies, local
authorities, consulting engineers and quantity surveying practices.
Developed initially by a quantity
surveying practice, to computerise the administration of building contracts using SMM6, SMM7 or other methods of measurement, RIPAC will improve the speed
and accuracy with which the following are performed:
- Bill preparation.
- Digitising using tablet or
imported images.
- Take-off on screen from CAD
drawings or graphic images.
- Cut & Fill and Earthworks
Calculations.
- Electronic Tendering.
- Tender appraisal.
- Term Contracts.
- Export to Data Warehouse for
Crystal Reports / Excel, HTML/XML.
- Variations.
- Re-measurement.
- Interim Payments.
- Cost reporting.
- Final accounts.
How you and your organisation
will benefit from RIPAC
If you are manually handling any
of the above activities, or using one of the early computer systems which only
do part of the job, then STOP and look at the benefits RIPAC could provide your
organisation:
- Time and money saved,
providing higher profit margins.
- Competitive fee bids.
- Improved quality and reuse of
data.
- Enhanced documentation.
- Potential for integration and
innovation.
- A more comprehensive service
to your clients.
- Compliance with client
requirements.
- Electronic data transfer.
The advantages of RIPAC
- Familiar Outlook style front
end.
- Database platform provides a
cost model in which data is reused from feasibility through tender documentation to final account.
- At all stages, a cost plan
comparison is available.
- Point and click with the mouse
to build descriptions from libraries for SMM, ARM, CESMM, MMHW or other methods of
measurement. Rogue items easily accommodated at all levels. Use mouse to
re-sequence items in the bill.
- Data capture of dimensions at
keyboard or electronically from CAD or spreadsheets.
- RIPAC performs time consuming
calculations for quantities, estimating, tender appraisal and price
fluctuations and stores results for inspection.
- Copy work selectively from
project to project or within project.
- Full audit trail for quality
management.
- Can be linked to other systems
for tendering, interim applications and estimating using ASCII, CSV or fixed
length data formats, including the CITE, (Construction Industries Trading
Electronically) standard format.
- All reports, including the
estimate, cost plan and Bill of Quantities, can be exported to Excel, PDF or
using Data Warehousing to proprietary reporting systems such as Crystal Reports.
System Modules
The RIPAC system has these modules:
- Estimating and Cost Planning. This module covers feasibility, estimating, cost planning,
approximate quantities, price databases and 'first principles' rate build up.
- Pre-contract.
This module covers bill preparation, pre-tender estimating, tender appraisal
and schedule of rates.
- Post-contact. This
module contains the additional programs needed to perform full post contract administration.
- Cut & Fill. This
module allows graphical Cut & Fill based upon input of existing and
proposed levels, with or without digitiser, providing resulting excavation
and disposal quantities and ability to vary levels and include bulking and
compaction adjustments.
- Whole Life Costing. This
module allows users to define cost structures for alternative uses and
specifications for projects. Construction cost plans can be imported. All
costs likely to be incured and income expected can be allocated to time
periods. Forecast models for carious levels of interest and inflation can be
applied.
- Cash Flow. With this module,
users can spread forecast payments over the duration of one or more
contracts according to standard or user defined curves. Actual payments may
be entered to recast the curve.
- BRIDGE Interface.
This modules
provides another means of electronic tendering, which eliminates
the need for users to key in rates from numerous contractors before tender
analysis can be performed by computer. This module allows users to export a
reduced set of information from a project database to send to tendering
contractors.
PLEASE NOTE: The
licencing of the Estimating and Cost Planning module, and the Pre Contact
module provides for interchangeability. For example a 3 user licence
purchased for EACH, actually provides a 6 user licence in any combination
up to 6 concurrent users.
FREE demonstration
To arrange your FREE
demonstration write, telephone, fax, or email:
CSSP
Head Office
29 London Road
Bromley
Kent BR1 1DG
United Kingdom
Telephone:+44 (0)20 8460 0022
Facsimile: +44 (0)20 8460 1196
E-mail: enq@cssp.co.uk
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