Simulated workplaceCAQA Keystone Construction and Plumbing is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Simulated workplace
Department

Estimating and Contracts

Prices work, prepares tenders and manages contracts from signing to final claim. Estimators take off quantities from the drawings, build labour and material schedules and check subcontractor quotes. Contract administrators handle variations, progress claims, extensions of time and the paperwork behind every permit and approval.

Estimating and Contracts Manager8 staff
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Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Prepare quantity take-offs, cost plans and tender submissions
  • Produce labour and material schedules for ordering
  • Draft and administer building and plumbing contracts
  • Process variations, progress claims and extensions of time
  • Lodge building permit and plumbing notification paperwork
Performance measures

How we know it is working

1 in 3.4
Tender win rate
within 4%
Estimate accuracy at completion
88%
Progress claims paid within terms
People

Who works here

LH

Leila Haddad

Estimating and Contracts Manager

Quantity surveyor by training, she has priced and administered Keystone's contracts since 2016 and reviews every variation before it goes to a client.