RIPAC Pre Contract

The Ripac Pre Contract module provides for measurement, bill production, pre-tender estimates and tender analysis. Work orders and term contract administration are included.

Measurement

• Wizard to set up new projects.

• Descriptions built from library phraseologies.

• Estimate or Bill items may be generated automatically from CAD data or other schedule data such as spreadsheets using the INTERFACE Module.

• Import bills of quantities from other systems.

• Dimensions and quantities can be directly obtained via a digitiser tablet, CAD model, or any other image.

• Copy and paste dimensions from spreadsheets.

• Items may be entered via the measurement screen or by using the Quick Item Entry facility that allows rapid entry and/or amendment of items and dimensions.

• Rogue items easily created at all levels and can be stored on project or standard libraries.

• Copy items selectively from previous projects, whole or in part, and also from standard bills.

• Context sensitive display of Measurement Rules on screen.

• View or print dimensions selectively in user defined sequence.

• Streamlined dimension input routines for data capture including global and local side casts (or user may enter quantities manually).

• Automatic weighting of steel and reinforcement.

• Room data sheets for automatically calculating floor, wall and ceiling areas together with the skirting length.

• Simpson's and Prismoidal (Trapezoidal) rules for calculating areas and volumes.

• Time saving features to locate and reuse descriptions and dimensions.

• Records carry user initials, date stamp and audit trail with two level security for editing.

• Various options for sign posts and data labels.

• Question lists and drawing registers.

• Preliminaries, preambles and specification clauses.

• More than one method of measurement may be used within one project e.g. CESMM3 and SMM7.

 

Editing

• On screen editing of headings, descriptions and quantities.

• Point and click to resequence rogue descriptions.

• Spellchecker for easy correction of spelling errors.

 

Documentation

• User defined layout of bill pages.

• Alternative bills by Part Group, Part, Sub Part, Element, Trade, Sub Contract, Work Breakdown or Location Breakdown.

• Draft or final bills.

• Electronic output to Word and Excel and also as a pdf file.

 

Pricing

• Estimated and tendered rates.

• PC and Provisional Sums.

• Full CITE accreditation for electronic tendering and rate import.

• Electronic tendering using Excel.

• Priced bills and documentation.

• Tender appraisal including arithmetic check, comparisons and sensitivity analysis.

• Payment classification, multiple client splits.

• Cost statistics.

• Elemental analysis.

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Term Contracts

• Work orders from schedule of rates (with or without quantities).

• Option of banded rates.

• Flexible work order layout.

• Stores multiple sets of rates.

• Permits appointment of multiple contractors and advises the most cost-effective award for each work order.

• Powerful selection and filter process.

• Electronic transfer.

• Percentage uplifts.

 

Non-standard reporting

• User requested and defined reports through a simple report generator.

• High quality reports are also available from the built-in REPORTER facility with complex content and format direct from the RIPAC database. This methodology allows for graphics, colour and inclusion of images.

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Libraries of Descriptions

• SMM7

• NRM2

• CESMM3 and CESMM4

• MMHW

• ARM3 and ARM4

• TIIRMP

• POMI

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Price Databases

• Wessex / SMM7