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The Subcontract Manager

The Subcontract Manager. Introduction The Subcontract Manager is used to define and maintain subcontract bills, register subcontractors and assign them to specific subcontracts.

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The Subcontract Manager

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  1. The Subcontract Manager Introduction The Subcontract Manager is used to define and maintain subcontract bills, register subcontractors and assign them to specific subcontracts. Subcontractor progress quantities are controlled through the subcontract bills together with other subcontractor costs, claims, charges, materials on site and VO’s, culminating in Subcontractor valuations and certificates. It is integrated with the Candy main BOQ, the Subcontract Adjudicator and Subcontract Liability reporting system.

  2. The Subcontract Manager Creating Subcontracts Subcontracts already setup and priced in the Subcontract Adjudication system can be brought directly into the Subcontract Manager including rates from a chosen subcontractor. New subcontracts can be entered in the Subcontract Manager and the bills populated by dragging items from the main BOQ. Once a new subcontract and its bill are established, it is awarded to a Subcontractor and his rates are entered into the subcontract bill. Information about the Subcontractor in the Subcontract Database can be used to populate the appropriate fields required about a Subcontractor.

  3. The Subcontract Manager Progress valuations The Subcontractor’s monthly quantities can be entered to record progress and to handle the Subcontractor’s certificate. Additional cost items such as extras, contras, materials on site, etc can be recorded to complete the monthly certification process. The Subcontractor submits his progress as “Invoice quantity”, you evaluate his actual progress as “Due quantity” and authorise the “Pay quantity” for the certificate. These terms are used to avoid confusion with the main contract. The Due quantity represents the Actual quantity in your BOQ, and the difference between the Due and Pay quantities becomes the Liability quantity.

  4. The Subcontract Manager Other Multiple subcontracts can be entered against BOQ items, each subcontract having its own “awarded quantities” with subcontractor specific rates. Labour-only or supply-only subcontracts can be handled as well, where only a part of a BOQ item is covered by the subcontract. Different descriptions, units and factored quantities can be accommodated on these subcontract bills to suit the subcontractor’s more narrow view of the BOQ item.

  5. The Subcontract Manager • Stagesof the process • There are several stages in the use of the Subcontract Manager and these are discussed in the following slides: • Getting there • Create Subcontracts • Subcontract bill • Subcontract bill and the BOQ • Many Subcontracts to BOQ items • Progressing a subcontract • Subcontractors • Making Certificate Templates • Subcontract liability • Subcontracts summary • VO’s

  6. Getting there…

  7. Subcontract Manager Getting there On the Valuations tab1call up the Subcontract Manager from the menubar2 or use the S/Cicon3. These display the Subcontract Manager selector. The help icon on the menu gives you detailed information about the Subcontract Manager4. You will also find help on dialogs and a help icon in the top-right of all documents5. 1 2 5 3 4 Subcontract Manager is only available in Valuations 1

  8. Subcontract Manager The Selector A typical Subcontract Manager selector will look something like this. On a new job it will be empty and you need to register the subcontracts as discussed in the next slides. The panel on the left is a list of the subcontracts1 and the panel on the right holds information about the subcontractor who was awarded each subcontract2. We’ll focus on the subcontracts first and return to the subcontractors later. 1 2 Subcontract ‘awarded’ to this subcontractor List of Subcontracts 2

  9. Creating a Subcontract

  10. Subcontract Manager Making a sub-heading When you go into the Subcontract Manager the first time there is only the heading as shown here. The first step is to make a sub-heading for the subcontract group you are going to deal with. 3

  11. Subcontract Manager Making a sub-heading The Newbutton is used to make subcontracts, headings and sub-headings. Clicking on the button is for making a subcontract, but clicking on the up arrow on the button displays the wider choices shown here1. Choose the New Sub-heading option2 and enter the name of the subcontract group – ‘Earthworks’ in this example3. Headings are purely cosmetic but they help you organise the subbies. Now lets create a subcontract…. 2 1 3 4

  12. Subcontract Manager • Making a subcontract • The Newbutton1 displays this dialog2where there are three ways to make a subcontract: • Choose a subcontract from the Subcontract Adjudicator. • Select a Package code from the list of your standard Subcontract Packages. • Enter a code and description. • Choice A3 is the best method if you have packages in the Subcontract Adjudicator - it copies the package bill and rates directly into a subcontract. • We will use this method for now…. 3 2 1 5

  13. Subcontract Manager Subcontract from a Package The packages in the Subcontract Adjudicator are displayed with a list of the subcontractors in each package. For example, if you select the package EARTH1 and then OK, EARTH will be installed in the Subcontract Manager and the package bill will be copied as the bill for subcontract EARTH. However, selecting a subcontractor2from the list for EARTH, installs the package bill and the rates for that subcontractor. 1 2 - End of section - 6

  14. Subcontract Manager Subcontract from a Package (cont) So now a new subcontract called EARTH1 has been registered in the Subcontract Manager selector and subcontractor Diggers2 has been ‘awarded’ the job. We will return here later to discuss the completion of this screen and the other tabs for subcontractor Diggers. We’ll now focus on the subcontract bill and how it relates to the BOQ. Double-clicking on EARTH (or Enter) displays the bill for this subcontract… 1 2 - End of section - 7

  15. The Subcontract bill

  16. Subcontract Manager The Subcontract bill This is the bill created from package EARTH in the Subcontract Adjudicator, including the rates for subcontractor Diggers1. The subcontract name and certificate number are shown in the heading of the document2. Bill items can be added at any stage by dragging and dropping from the main BOQor deleted from the subcontract bill with Ctrl+Delete. Note – only items on the main BOQ can be used on a subcontract bill and their order is determined by the BOQ. Relevant headings are automatically included in the subcontract bills. 2 1 - End of section - 8

  17. Subcontract Manager Subcontract bill layouts There are a large number of columns available for the S/C bill. The column picker is used for changing columns on the bill. The menu item Add/Remove columns1 on the View menu or Ctrl+F1 displays it. Using the Toolbar ‘open book’ icon2 you can swap the current document with another from the S/C Document Manager. View menu > Swap documents3does the same thing. The Tools menu on the Subcontract Manager selector gives you access to the S/C Document Manager where you can select other layouts or make your own. 1 2 3 9

  18. The Subcontract bill & the main BOQ

  19. Subcontract Manager The main BOQ BOQ documents with subcontract columns are found in the Valuation and Subcontract Manager’s document managers. The subcontract codes are shown against the BOQ items1 and the Final quantity of each item is ‘awarded’2 to the subcontract. Changing the Awarded quantity of the second item to 6,000 immediately shows 4,807.07 in the S/C Over/Under column3. If another subcontract were to use item B as well, it would be awarded the quantity in the S/C Over/Undercolumn as shown in subsequent slides. 2 1 3 - End of section - 10

  20. Subcontract Manager Allocating from the main BOQ Items on the main BOQ can be allocated to a subcontract at any time. In this example, item E was originally omitted from the package. It is easy to add it in now: Right-click in the Subcontract code column , choose Allocate to S/C1 and select from the list of subcontracts2. There’s only one subcontract in our list so far and choosing it will put this BOQ item onto the subcontract bill and award it the Final quantity. Note: Final quantities are grey when they reflect the Bill quantities. 1 2 - End of section - 11

  21. Many subcontracts to items in the main BOQ

  22. Subcontract Manager Making another subcontract More than one subcontract can be allocated to a BOQ item – to illustrate this we need to make another subcontract. Use the New button to display the dialog for making a new subcontract1. Use method C this time and enter the code for a second earthworks subcontract2. This makes the entry for the new subcontract EARTH23. Double clicking on EARTH2 displays its subcontract bill… 2 1 3 12

  23. Subcontract Manager Populating the subcontract bill EARTH2 had a blank bill - it was not made from a Subcontract Adjudicator package and therefore had no pre-existing bill. Getting BOQ items onto a subcontract bill is easy. From any BOQ document drag items from the main BOQ to EARTH21. The quantities in the S/C Over/Undercolumn on the BOQ were awarded to the subcontract items as they were dropped onto the Subcontract bill2. Relevant headings are automatically brought over from the BOQ3. 2 3 Copy & Paste or Drag & Drop selected BOQ items onto the subcontract bill 1 13

  24. Subcontract Manager The BOQ view of subcontracts On the BOQ, multiple subcontracts against items are shown as a list of codes1. Here we can see both EARTH and EARTH2 against some BOQ items, each with its own quantities and rates. The quantities ‘awarded’ should add up to the Final quantity2. Any ‘un-allocated’ quantity of a BOQ item is shown in the S/C Over/Under column3. This may be correct if the main contractor intends handling some of the work, otherwise this column should be blank. 1 3 2 14

  25. Progressing a Subcontract

  26. Subcontract Manager Subcontract progress On the Subcontract Manager selector, the Tools menu gives you access to the S/C Document Manager1 – choose 1.3 to handle subcontract progress2. Question: which bill document is displayed when you double click on a subcontract? The last bill document you chose becomes the ‘default’ bill until you choose a different S/C bill, which takes over as the default. To make a new bill document, come back to the S/C Document Manager shown here. Choose 1.3 now and it becomes the default subbie bill…. 1 2 15

  27. Subcontract Manager Entering Subcontract progress The quantity columns shown here are used for recording progress1: Invoice quantity: the subcontractor’s claimed quantity – say 1,000. Due quantity:your measured quantity of his actual progress – say 800. Pay quantity:the quantity you approve for payment – say 700. The Due quantity should be your Actual quantity on the BOQ, while the Pay quantity is used to calculate your cost for this item. The difference between Due and Pay is the Liability quantity. The terms Invoice, Due and Pay are used to avoid confusion with Actual, Claim and Paid in the main contract. 1 16

  28. Subcontract Manager Subcontractors on the BOQ If you prefer to work from the main BOQ, you can enter progress, adjust rates, introduce new items on a subcontract, etc. Any changes made to a subcontract from the BOQ will immediately be registered on the subcontract bill. When there are multiple subbies against a BOQ item, the total of all the subcontracts quantities are also available – eg: the Total Due quantity column shown here2. 1 2 17

  29. Subcontract Manager Subcontractors on the BOQ There are a large number of columns available for displaying subcontract information against BOQ items1. You can make new BOQ documents showing the subcontract columns you want either in the main Valuations Document Manager on the Toolbar2or they can be kept in the S/C Document Manager found in the Tools menu of the Subcontract Manager. Use Ctrl+F1 for the column picker to make adjustments to your current document. 2 1 18

  30. The Subcontractor

  31. Subcontract Manager The Subcontractor We now have the two subcontracts, EARTH and EARTH2 established1. We created EARTH using the package from the Subcontract Adjudicator and chose Diggers2 as the Subcontractor. We now need to complete the Details tab3 for Diggers and then deal with the other tabs for this subcontractor4. 4 3 1 2 19

  32. Subcontract Manager The Details tab1 The Details tab holds information about the subcontractor. If you have data in the Subcontractor Database, clicking on the S/C code field2 displays a list of subcontractors from your database. In this example, choosing Diggers from our list populates the fields of this tab with the database information. 1 2 20

  33. Subcontract Manager The Details tab1(cont) The information in these fields can be used on certificates or printed reports for the subcontractor. The Cost code2 entered against the subcontractor is the code that will be used to record all allowables and costs related to this subcontract. The popup list displays the Cost codes defined in the Definitions & Settings. The Cost code is mandatory and must be entered for each subcontract. 1 2 21

  34. Subcontract Manager The Contract tab1 The information in the Contract tab is not mandatory and is used to record information about the subcontract. Contract document:2 A copy of the contract documentation can be stored in the S/C External Documents folder – click on this button to go to it. Guarantee:3 The type of guarantee and details about it are entered here. Subcontract status:4Choose the status of the subcontract from a list. Contract amount:5Enter the original contract value here. Amounts:6 These values are updated automatically showing the current progress status for the contract. 2 3 4 1 5 6 22

  35. Subcontract Manager The Extras tab1 Extras:2 Any additional work the subcontractor does outside of his bill should be recorded here. These are “internal VO’s”. Repairs charged:3 Charges from one subcontractor to another can be entered here. A reciprocal charge will be shown on the Charges tab of the other subcontractor4. 2 3 1 4 23

  36. Subcontract Manager The Charges tab1 Contra charges:2 Charges from the main contractor to the subcontractor are entered here. Charges from Subcontractors:3 All charges for repairs from other sub- contractors will appear here. 2 3 1 24

  37. Subcontract Manager The Materials on Site tab1 The subcontractor’s materials on site are recorded here each month2. When the next certificate is setup (in the Summary tab), last month’s MOS entries are frozen and become the previous month’s MOS on the certificate. The previous month’s MOS is subtracted from the certificate and the current month’s MOS is added. 2 1 25

  38. Subcontract Manager The Certificate tab1 The previous and current certificates are listed here2. The current certificate data can be sent to Excel. You create your own Excel templates and specify which template each subcontract must use. If you don’t have templates, a default CCS template3 is provided. You need to enter the path to the folder where it and all future certificates will be stored4. The Export to Template5 button writes the current certificate to the template and stores the spreadsheet in the folder specified. 2 1 3 4 5 26

  39. Subcontract Manager The Certificate spreadsheet1 The certificate is displayed on the screen1 and stored in the folder with all previous certificates. If you make changes and Export to Template again, the currently stored certificate will be overwritten – ie you can only have one current certificate. When the Next certificate2 button is used, the current certificate becomes the previous month’s certificate. All previous month’s certificate spread- sheets are preserved and cannot be changed. The next certificate action moves the current quantities in the S/C bill to previous and the certificate number is advanced. 2 1 27

  40. Making Certificate Templates

  41. Subcontract Manager Creating Certificate templates The certificate data is written to a copy of an Excel template certificate that you nominate. A CCS template is always available and you can modify it or use any other Excel certificate. To make a template, use the Tools menu1 on the Subcontract Manager and name your template – eg: you may need to make one for domestic and one for labour-only subcontracts2. Next you need to specify the cells where the certificate data is to be written on the spreadsheet….. 1 2 28

  42. Subcontract Manager Template definition On this document you must specify the folder1 where the template is kept as well as the cells where the Candy data will be placed in the spread- sheet2. Once the template is ready it can be specified for use on the certificate tab of a subcontract as described in the previous slides. 1 2 29

  43. Other tips and issues

  44. Subcontract Manager Variation Orders (VO’s) In this example, a Variation Order was issued by the client – “Construct drainage sump” and this is registered in the Variation Order definitions as VO11. The new bill item was entered in the BOQ and marked as VO12. The new BOQ item can then be allocated to the appropriate subcontract bill3. ‘Internal’ VO’s that are not main contract VO’s should be entered on the Subcontractor Extra tab, or create an Internal item on the main BOQ which can then be allocated to a subcontract. 3 1 2 30

  45. Subcontract Manager Comparison rates Allowable rates are imported into the Comparison rate column to compare against the subcontractor’s rates1. Use the columns header menu and select the rate component required2. The difference between the Compari-son3 and Awarded4 rates multiplied by the Awarded quantity produces the Comparison Variance5. Note: The Comparison rate is not updated when rates in the BOQ change – you have to explicitly re-import the rates if there are changes. 2 3 4 5 1 31

  46. Subcontract Manager Comparison rates - example This example shows a comparison rate that consists of the labour portion of the BOQ rate. The BOQ has brickwork net rates which include labour and material1. The subcontract bill has comparison rates which only reflect the labour component of the BOQ rate2 - see the selection used when setting up the component rates3. This gives you the correct rate to compare against the labour-only brickwork subcontractors rates. 3 2 1 32

  47. Subcontract Manager The Subcontractor’s View In some situations the bill items need to be expressed in terms and units familiar to the subcontractor1. Use these columns from the pick list to create an appropriate document2. The Factor is the key to this process and controls the relationship between the BOQ units and the units of the subcontractor’s view. Changing either the Awarded rate4 or the Subcontractor’s rate5 calculates the other using the Factor. Note the subcontractor’s description and unit6 - using terms familiar to him. 2 4 3 5 1 6 33

  48. Subcontract Manager Reflecting quantities Enter a quantity in a field and that number is stored and displayed1 - as you would expect! However…. If the Pay quantity is blank then it reflects the Due quantity - displayed in a grey font2. If Due is blank it reflects Invoiced and Pay reflects Due, as above3. If you don’t want quantities to reflect, enter a zero and that is the value that will be used4. In other words, zero is regarded as a value, and blank is nothing – and reflects. 2 1 3 2 4 34

  49. - The End -

  50. Subcontract Manager • Still to do….. • S/C Summary • Cost codes • This month Pay and Due amounts are Amount to-date + rate x month qty (in case a rate change) • Next month setup 26

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