Research On Improving Settlement Method Of The Bill Of Quantities Mode

At present, in the process of the project settlement under the the BQ pricing mode, theowners often deny the statutory amount of works formed by the previous measurement andrequire the contractors to do the settlement again in accordance with the completion drawingsbased on the completion of settlementand progress payments, and to reexamine the amount ofwork, variance and visa during the interim payment of the amount of work, which result in alot of controversy between owner and contractor in the completed stage of contract. Thesettlement mode was known as completion drawing recalcucation under the quota pring modeand was still used under BQ pricing mode in China, which showed that the budget regulationis still exits in BQ pricing mode in China. Nowadays, the two pricing mode are mixed.Adoping the payment project process in FIDIC as the benchmark, the thesis analyzed thepayment process in China, in order to infuse the payment process of FIDIC into the practicein China to provide the basis for the payment improvement.According to the idea that payment as the core of contract of management in FIDIC, thekey of the settlement should be responsible for monitoring the control of performance ofcontract, which can guarantee the confirm of the amount of work, good completion thevariance,pricing adjustment and claim, and improvement of composition and audit of interimpayment. Based on the idea above, the thesis explicated how to form contract amount duringthe interim payment and took that as the main content to be improved in the settlement. Afterthe owners’ audit, the content in the issue of interim payment certificate submitted by thecontractor come into three elements: the contract price, estimated contract price and thecontract price in dispute. The thesis through map out the formation mechanism of the contractprice, based on the combination of event-handle process and cost determination, consideringinfluencing factors related to the pricing. The thesis designed the contract price compositiontable for owners to confirm the amount during the interim payment which will form thecontract price, the contract price which shouled be estimated and the contract price whichshould be handled during the settlement. The last analysis can aid the owners to transfer thesettlement audit from settlement stage to construction stage and make positively compose thecontract price column in accordance with the application for interim payment certificate andrelated material, in order to improve the settlement mode.