The spine that runs every construction project. Cost Plan, Bill of Quantity, Bill of Materials, Project Budget, Work Projection, Work Order, RA Bill, Retention Release. Each station handles Builder mode and Contractor mode differently — same module, two business realities.
Before BOQ, before drawings, you need an order-of-magnitude. ₹X per sqft, build-up area Y sqft, total ≈ XY. The Cost Plan station — Budget Head Group, Budget Head Category, Budget Head, Project Budget Template — gives you that first cut and parks it as the reference point everything else gets compared against.
BOQ converts the building into a list of activities, each with a quantity. Excavation 4,200 cum. Reinforcement 380 MT. Brickwork 1,840 cum. Plaster 12,400 sqm. Once the BOQ is locked, every other station — BOM, Budget, Plan, Work Order, RA Bill — references back to it. BOQ Comparison and BOQ Amendment Register track every change with version history.
BOQ tells you you'll do 6,800 cum of M30 concrete. BOM tells you that becomes 2,720 MT of cement, 6,460 MT of aggregate, 4,420 MT of sand, 0.34 MT of admixture per cum — and 380 MT of reinforcement steel for the slab. The Resource Requirement transaction explodes the BOQ into a material plan. Auto Indent and Auto Issue then push it into Materials.
BOQ × rate = activity cost. BOM × price = material cost. Add labour, equipment, overhead, escalation provision. The Project Budget is the final money plan — broken down by Budget Head, broken down by Milestone, broken down by month. Budget Validation Register watches every commitment against it. Budget Tagging for Escalation marks heads — steel, fuel — that auto-revise on index change.
Budget tells you the cost. Plan tells you the timing. WBS structures the work — by floor, by package, by activity. MSP Import brings in the planned schedule. Work Projection back-loads — month-wise, item-wise, activity-wise — so you know the labour you need next month, the cement you need next week, the equipment you need on Saturday.
Vendor onboarded. RFQ generated against the BOQ. Quotations come in. Price comparison auto-tabulates. WO Generation locks the contractor and the rate. Terms (WO T&C) capture retention %, mobilization advance, defect liability period, payment terms. Once signed — the contractor gets a portal login to bid online next time, submit work-done online, request inspection online.
Contractor reports work done on the portal. Quality Control checks the activity. DPR (Daily Progress Report) records ground truth. The billing engineer certifies the quantity. The Contractor RA Bill is generated — automatically, against the WO rate, with retention deducted, escalation applied, mobilization adjustment netted, GST/TDS computed, payment requisition raised. AP gets a posted bill, not a paper one.
The 5% you held back from every RA bill sits as an outstanding to the contractor. The Defect Liability Period (typically 12 months from project handover) is the wait. The day DLP ends — Material Advance Eligibility flips, Retention Release auto-triggers, payment requisition flows to AP. Bank Guarantees release back to the vendor. Project closes financially. Bank Guarantee Register, Retention Release Ageing, Hold/Release — the closure stack.
For thirty years our project review was a fight about which spreadsheet was right. Now BOQ, Work Order, RA Bill, retention — they're all the same row. The contractor knows we know. Our certification time fell from twelve days to four. Our retention release ageing went from three crore overdue to zero.— Director · Indian developer · 38 active projects · Mumbai + Pune
30 minutes. We'll walk one of your projects — or one of ours — through all 8 stations. Cost Plan to BOQ to BOM to Budget to Plan to Work Order to RA Bill to Retention Release. Pick Builder mode or Contractor mode.