Rate Analysis
Rates you can defend, not rates you found.
We build rates from their components — material at current landed cost, labour at realistic output, plant, wastage, overhead and margin — so each rate can be opened up and justified in a negotiation.
Why this goes wrong.
Rates carried over from the last job quietly stop being true. Material moves, labour output does not match the assumed gang, and the wastage allowance was never checked. The margin erodes and nobody can point to where.
Deliverables.
Issued in your format — Excel, PDF, DWG or your own template.
- Item-wise built-up rate analysis sheets
- Material, labour, plant, wastage, overhead and profit broken out
- Labour output and gang composition assumptions stated
- Current market rate basis with date and source
- Sensitivity view on the cost drivers that actually move the rate
- Comparison against DSR, CPWD or client schedules of rates
Outcomes.
Defensibility
Every rate opens up into its components during negotiation.
Margin visibility
You can see which items carry the job and which are being bought.
Benchmarking
Your rates measured against DSR and against your own past jobs.
Standards
We detail to the code your project is contracted to, not to a house default.
- CPWD DSR
- State PWD schedules
- IS 1200
- RICS NRM2
Software
Native files on request, so your team can pick the work up directly.
- RGS
- AutoCAD
- Excel
- Rebar XLS
Common questions.
Do you use DSR rates or market rates?
Both, and we show the difference. DSR gives a defensible published basis for government and PSU work; market rates reflect what the item will actually cost this quarter. Where they diverge materially we say so, because that gap is usually where the risk sits.
How current are your material rates?
We date-stamp the rate basis on every analysis and state the source. For steel and cement, which move fastest, we confirm the rate at the point of issue rather than carrying a figure forward from a previous exercise.
BBS Preparation
Every bar, marked, measured and weighed.
Shop Drawings
Drawings the site can build from without a phone call.
Quantity Take-Off
Measured once, traceable to the drawing.
Need rate analysis on a live job?
Send the drawings. You get scope, price and a delivery date back — not a brochure.