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Dear All I would like to know if people have strong views on how and when costs should be visible to the contractor on an AI. We are using NBS Contract Administrator which allows these costs to be hidden, or displayed.If the cost of an instruction is not known at the point of instructing, surely it would be meaningless to show an arbitrary number. As such, is it ever appropriate to display costs at the point of instruction?In my experience architectural practices deal with this in differing ways, but I suspect there is an approved way of doing it.Thanks!
The consensus of opinion appears to be that whilst the display of costs attached to an AI is optional, transparency is favourable. If you have pre-negotiated a price put it into the AI but be clear what it covers, such as overheads, prelims and profit. If not negotiated state it as a "budget cost" but also define what it covers.
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