Contract cost and price analysis: a realistic approach for buyers and sellers in 2026

Duration 2 days

The seminar can be held online on the official International Business Academy platform. On completion of the training you will be given a link to the recording, which will be available for one month.
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Schedule: 10:00 to 17:30
Cost 296 500 tenge

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  • Seminar
  • Exclusive handout materials
  • IBA certificates
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  • Lunches and 2 coffee breaks
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World and historical practice in the field of construction pricing. Trends in the development of construction pricing legislation in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Purpose, content and requirements of the state regulatory documents for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2025. Requirements of the Procedure for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The meaning and purpose of the regulatory documents on construction pricing of the Republic of Kazakhstan, basic concepts and terminology, practical application in the construction industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Specifics of application in the industrial and sectoral segments of the economy. Investment projects and state budget financing in 2025.

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Natalya Batukhtina
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Юлия Копцева
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Programme

World and historical practice in the field of construction pricing. Trends in the development of construction pricing legislation in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Purpose, content and requirements of the state regulatory documents for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2025. Requirements of the Procedure for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The meaning and purpose of the regulatory documents on construction pricing of the Republic of Kazakhstan, basic concepts and terminology, practical application in the construction industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Specifics of application in the industrial and sectoral segments of the economy. Investment projects and state budget financing in 2025.

Estimate regulatory documents in construction. Types of new estimate norms, their purpose and use.

Basic requirements and conditions of construction pricing. Relations between the participants in the investment process in construction.

Composition and types of estimate documentation, formatting requirements. Purpose, content and rules for preparing the output document forms.

Composition and structure of the estimated cost of construction. Classification and types of costs in the estimated cost of construction.

Preparing estimate documentation for construction. Requirements of the Procedure for preparing a complete set of estimate documentation for a construction project.

Specifics of calculating the cost of construction using aggregated cost indicators. Applying aggregated construction cost indicators and aggregated cost indicators by type of work at different design stages.

Specifics of determining the estimated cost of construction within the pilot project.

Specifics of determining the estimated cost of construction when adjusting estimate documentation.

Determining the estimated cost of engineering surveys for construction.

Determining the estimated cost of design work for construction.

Determining the estimated cost of engineering services in construction.

Determining the estimated cost of commissioning work when putting construction facilities into operation. Requirements of the Procedure for preparing a complete set of estimate documentation for commissioning work.

Main innovations in the methods of preparing output documents in 2025. Overview of the composition and content of the estimate documentation forms recommended by the Procedure.

Estimate norms for additional costs. Costs of organising and managing construction. Accounting in the estimate documentation for funds to cover the contractor's expenses related to carrying out construction for the project as a whole.

Cost indices for construction. Purpose and application in developing design and estimate documentation and in recording completed work.

Developing the estimate and economic section of construction projects using the ABC system. The updated edition of the ABC 2025 software package.

The technology of pricing construction products taking into account the new methodological approaches to pricing.

Preparing the bill of quantities and ways of including estimate items in the local estimate.

Working with the resource estimate normative base of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The INFO subsystem. The ABC knowledge base.

Tools for developing local estimates: the «Projects» functionality. The ABC table editor. The ABC text editor. Structural and technological grouping of data in estimate documentation. User items.

New economic categories in pricing and their implementation in ABC. Unit estimate prices, estimate prices of labour costs, estimate prices for operating machinery. Specifics of applying unit estimate prices and elemental estimate norms when preparing the bill of quantities. Accounting for labour and wages by construction trade and grade. Estimate tariff rates.

Estimate prices of labour costs: their economic meaning, purpose and application. The content of estimate prices for operating construction machinery and mechanisms. Specifics of their application in estimate calculations. Transporting goods for construction.

Accounting for transport costs, forming the estimate prices of materials, products, structures, engineering equipment, furniture and inventory using the «Transport cost calculations and material cost calculations» functionality.

Specifics of forming the estimate price of equipment and accounting for the delivery methods of process and engineering equipment in local estimates.

Taking into account the requirements of regulatory documents, general provisions, technical sections and work conditions when applying unit estimate prices and elemental estimate norms in developing local estimates.

Purpose and application of ABC adjustments. Specifics of accounting for overheads and estimated profit in local estimates and in the summary estimate of construction cost. Purpose and application of construction indices in estimate documentation. Specifics of applying indices in the current year and in upcoming periods in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Applying aggregated estimate norms. Collections of aggregated cost indicators for structures and types of work. Collections of aggregated cost indicators for the construction of buildings and structures. Non-production facilities. Preparing a construction cost calculation using the ABC-USN software product.

Issue of estimate documentation by design organisations in the recommended output document forms; applying resource ranking for the efficient work of the estimator.

Composition and types of integrated estimate documentation provided for by the current regulatory documents on construction pricing. Forming comprehensive assessments by facility and project in terms of: cost; resource requirements; volumes of work; required equipment.

Issuing facility estimates, summary estimates and other integrated documents. Capabilities of the «Projects» functionality. The technology of automated preparation of a set of estimate documentation based on the results of local estimate calculations when contractors prepare an offer. Tools for preparing the construction contract. Preparing the contract price schedule. Exporting the results of local estimate calculations for a facility or project to the KENML format for transfer to the client and to expert organisations.

Specifics of recording completed work in contractor organisations. The link between the construction period and the methodological provisions in force at the time the construction contract is concluded. Recording tools in the «Projects» functionality. Applying construction indices in completed work certificates.

Development of the ABC product line. Applying building information modelling technology in integration with ABC. Purpose, interrelation and characteristics of the software products ABC-KZ, ABC-PIR, ACCORD POS, ACCORD Prof, ABC-Recompositor, ABC-USN.

Estimating as part of building information modelling. BIM requirements for the tasks of determining construction cost and the further development of the information model from 3D to 5D at different stages of the construction product life cycle. Using BIM models in preparing estimate documentation. The estimator's tools for working with the information model. Scheduling tools in the ABC software products — ACCORD POS and ACCORD Prof. Their use for converting the information model to 5D.

Developing construction organisation projects and work execution plans

Ensuring the safety of ABC user data. Tools for saving user data in ABC. Copying operational files, projects and user items. Tools for working with output results, forming information data blocks for a facility (project) for developing construction organisation projects and work execution plans.

Practical sessions in the ABC 2025 software package. Developing estimate documentation. Working with the resource estimate normative base of the Republic of Kazakhstan, «KazNIISA JSC». A typical example.

Preparing the bill of quantities; analysing and adjusting resources; forming the estimate prices of resources. Tools and techniques for forming the structure of the estimate and the bill of quantities. Analysing the state of resources, bringing resource results into line with the project. Forming estimate prices of resources by estimate, facility and project; calculating transport costs and the estimate prices of materials, products, structures and equipment.

Issuing facility estimates, summary estimates of construction cost, summary resource schedules, the summary schedule of requirements for basic materials, products, structures and equipment; preparing the client's estimate for expert review. Specifics of preparing summary estimates of construction cost.

The contractor's preparation of a commercial proposal — an offer (contractor's estimate) for participation in a tender for the procurement of construction and installation works.

Practical sessions in the ABC estimating system. Contracting: preparing the construction contract, recording completed volumes of work. Advisory session on using the ABC 2025 software package, its new features and current changes.

The contract price schedule. Purpose and content. The difference between the previously used catalogue of unit contract rates and the contract price schedule. Preparing the construction contract on the basis of the recommendations of the «Procedure for determining the estimated cost of construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan» on accounting for certain types of costs when preparing the contractor's estimate and accepting completed work in the construction sector in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Recording completed volumes of work. Preparing completed work certificates (Form 2V), certificates of the cost of construction and installation works, material resource reports M29-2, keeping the work log and the cumulative statement KS-6. Analysis of situations involving the safety of ABC user data. Tools for saving user data in ABC. Copying operational files, projects, user items and data on completed volumes of work.

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