Municipal schemes are approved, funded and awarded on the strength of their paperwork. We prepare the Detailed Project Reports, estimates and tender documents that carry an underground sewerage or water supply scheme through technical sanction and procurement, built from site conditions and the current schedule of rates, not from a template.
Each stage adds only what the next stage can be checked against. Quantities come off the ground, rates off the current schedule, and the annexures are complete before it goes up.
A DPR that understates quantities becomes a cost overrun two years into execution, and a bid document with gaps is rejected at technical evaluation before anyone opens the price cover. Getting the estimate, the specification and the annexures right is the cheapest work on the whole project and the most expensive to get wrong. With AMRUT 2.0 and Swachh Bharat Mission funds flowing into Tamil Nadu sewerage and water supply schemes, the volume of documentation a ULB has to produce has risen sharply, and the scrutiny with it.
| Reports and studies | Detailed Project Reports for sewerage, water supply and municipal schemesFeasibility studies before budget commitmentSurvey and site data collection where records are incompleteIndependent review of an existing estimate or DPR |
|---|---|
| Costing and quantities | Quantity take off from drawings and site measurementBOQ preparation in the department formatRate analysis against the applicable schedule of ratesCost estimates with phasing and escalation |
| Tender and approval | Tender and bid document preparationTechnical specifications and drawings scheduleAnnexures and compliance documentation for sanctionTechnical proposal support for contractors bidding municipal works |
Scope, documentation and billing are set up to match how each of these bodies actually procures and audits, rather than one format applied to all of them.
Not a list of risks in the abstract. These are the specific things we are called in to correct, and what we check for before quoting anything.
Not from the ground. Rock, water table and existing services are what change the rate, and none of them appear on a layout sheet.
An estimate built on a superseded schedule of rates fails technical scrutiny before anyone reaches the price cover.
Complete drawings, specifications and compliance formats are what let a bid be evaluated at all. Incomplete sets are simply returned.
A DPR that ignores how the release actually arrives produces a work that stops halfway and needs revalidation.
We will tell you what the DPR, the estimate and the tender set need to contain before it goes up for approval.