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Title / Negotiate and apply specified types of contracts to tendering situations for quantity surveying
Level / 5 / Credits / 10
Purpose / People credited with this unit standard are able to obtain and select subcontract quotations, and apply specified types of construction contracts to tendering and procurement situations.
Classification / Quantity Surveying > Quantity Surveying Theory
Available grade / Achieved
Explanatory notes
1 Contract negotiation at this level covers the analysis and selection of subcontract quotations and the application of selected contract types to tendering procedures.
2 Documentation relevant to this unit standard includes:
New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Standard Conditions of Contract (current edition), available from the New Zealand Institute of Architects, PO Box 2516, Auckland; New Zealand Standard (NZS) 3910 (current edition) Conditions of Contract for Building and Civil Engineering Construction, available from Standards NewZealand, Private Bag 2439, Wellington.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Obtain and select subcontract quotations.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Subcontractors are selected in terms of industry criteria and quotations submitted are checked to ensure that requirements of brief are met.
Range industry criteria may include but is not limited to - expertise, past history, availability.
1.2 Quotations, including tags are analysed in terms of their effect on the tender submission, compared, and a recommendation is included in the main contractor tender submission.
1.3 Selected subcontractors are notified and appointed in accordance with the contract conditions and the main contractor's requirements.
Outcome 2
Apply specified types of construction contracts to tendering and procurement situations.
Range types may include but are not limited to – lump sum, fluctuating, fixed price, cost reimbursement, two stage tendering, target cost, design and build, NZIA Standard Conditions of Contract, NZS 3910 Conditions of Contract.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Specified types of construction contracts are analysed in terms of their application to tendering and procurement situations.
2.2 The relevant sections of construction contracts are applied to the tendering process to ensure that the requirements of a construction contract are met.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.
Process / Version / Date / Last Date for Assessment /Registration / 1 / 28 February 1997 / 31 December 2018
Revision / 2 / 10 December 1997 / 31 December 2018
Revision / 3 / 8 October 1998 / 31 December 2018
Revision / 4 / 27 October 1999 / 31 December 2018
Revision / 5 / 7 June 2000 / 31 December 2018
Review / 6 / 20 March 2003 / 31 December 2018
Revision / 7 / 19 July 2004 / 31 December 2018
Review / 8 / 18 March 2011 / 31 December 2018
Rollover / 9 / 15 August 2013 / 31 December 2018
Rollover / 10 / 16 July 2015 / 31 December 2018
Rollover / 11 / 19 January 2017 / 1 March 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference / 0048
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Building and Construction Industry Training OrganisationSSB Code 101562 / Ó New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2017