cleopatra enterprise tendering and contract strategies
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Tendering and Contract Strategies with Cleopatra Enterprise
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What:>Manage purchase of materials and
services on a project basis or long term relationship
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Who:>Purchase department>Project managers, Project leaders
Tendering & Contract Strategies
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Control of scope (changes)>
Standardization of labour
norms
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Prices, rates and margins
What needs to be controlled?
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Cube should stay within your budget
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How:> Choose the right contract strategy:
>Project contract> Long term contract
> Clearly define scope and scope changes> Apply unit‐rates
Tendering & Contract Strategies
Purpose of estimating with unit rates
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Cost calculation, budgeting and cost‐ control
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Qualifying and Quantifying of loss sources>
Capacity‐
and period planning
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Objectivity and deviation planning>
Effectiveness evaluation (management
tool)
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Unit-Rate
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General description
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Direct hours
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Activity
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Rate
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Productivity
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Indirect
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Profit and risk
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Optimizing the Tendering process
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Bidding phase:>
Develop a request for quotation (RFQ) database with
norms/unit‐rates to familiarize Contractors with the Owner’s strategy and data.
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Create reference estimate which defines the scope>
Receive market quotes in Excel format from different
vendors>
Update reference estimate with quotes
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Compare the various Bids
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Estimating & Execution phase:>
Setup a contract database (knowledgebase) with
unit‐rates>
Compare estimates with contract knowledgebase
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Update contract database with new unit‐rates>
Input for cost control
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Input for ERP system>
Quantity surveying
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Analyze price development for long term contracts0
Cleopatra Enterprise & Tendering
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Fast and accurate estimating>
The whole
tendering
process
in one
program
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From
request
for
quotation
to final
contract bid>
Use reference estimates to build new bids quickly
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Import quotes
by
suppliers>
Update estimate
against
new
quotes
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Use
standard
cost
data based
on
DACE Labour
Norms>
Interface with
3D engineering and other
software
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State of the art technology
Cleopatra Enterprise’s Added Value
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Cost estimates as business tool>
All investment information at your fingertips
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Enhance your business intelligence by>
Knowing your exact cost
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Knowing
the effects
on
cost
of scope changes>
Including
allowances
in estimates
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Including
indirect cost
in estimates
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Use
Cleopatra Enterprise for:>
Procurement
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Tendering>
Contracting
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Estimating
Cleopatra Enterprise’s Added Value
Cleopatra has been awarded ‘Winner Champion of Excellence’
by cutting construction costs with 23% for Shell
[ref. Chemicals Quarterly]