Benchmarks

Open this screen in Saral/projects/reports/benchmarks

Every project against the group: cost per m² and per week, labour and subcontract shares of cost, retention days, certified-to-paid days and variation rate, each with the group's min, quartiles, median and max. Built from each project's commercial record and its month-end locks — nothing is typed here.

You enter

Nothing on this page. The inputs live elsewhere: the floor area on the Contract tab (or the won tender), the contract and variation records, and a month-end lock on the CVR.

Saral fills in

Cost per m² (forecast final cost, else cost to date, over the floor area) and cost per week over the contract period.
Labour and subcontract ratios from the cost categories; retention days and certified-to-paid days from the applications and payments; variation rate from the variation account over the contract sum.
The distribution per metric across the projects you can see, with the interquartile range drawn.
The gaps: projects with no floor area (no cost per m²) and projects with no lock on this basis (no cost metrics), named.

It produces

The benchmarks table and distributions as PDF or Excel with formulas.

What this page is for

To ask whether a job's numbers are normal for this group. Cost per m² and per week place the job; labour and subcontract shares show how it is being delivered; retention and payment days show how the money behaves; variation rate shows how much the scope moved. The quartiles are the group's own — there is no external dataset.

Where the figures come from

Cost is taken from the project's latest month-end lock on the account's basis — the forecast final cost where the QS recorded one, else cost to date, and the row says which. The floor area comes from the Contract tab or the won tender. Days are measured from the application and payment dates on the contract record. A project with no lock has no cost metrics, which is why locking the month matters beyond the CVR.

Where next

Set the floor area and lock the month on the project's CVR Report to bring it into the table; the Portfolio shows the same projects' margin and movement.

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