A project proposal (also known as a project application report or project initiation application report) is a recommendatory document prepared by the project undertaking entity or project legal person, based on national economic development, national and local medium- and long-term plans, industrial policies, productivity layout, domestic and international markets, and local internal and external conditions. For a specific new construction or expansion project, after investigation, prediction and analysis, it is submitted to relevant local authorities such as the national development and reform department and industry regulatory departments. It proposes the need for a feasibility study for a certain investment construction project. It presents a framework-level overall concept for the proposed project, discusses the necessity and possibility of project establishment from a macro perspective, and transforms the project investment idea into a sketchy investment suggestion.
A feasibility study is an estimation of the investment amount (including construction costs and working capital) for a construction project based on existing data and certain methods before the investment decision is made for the construction project. It also involves technical and economic evaluation of relevant construction schemes, technical schemes, or production and operation schemes.
Project economic evaluation is an important component of the feasibility study, including national economic evaluation and financial evaluation. Its main role is, based on studies such as forecasting, site selection, and technical schemes, to investigate and study various economic factors of project input and output. Through the calculation of multiple indicators, it comprehensively analyzes and evaluates the project's economic reasonableness, financial feasibility, and risk resistance capability, providing the main basis for project decision-making.
Construction project preliminary estimates and budgets refer to documents that pre-calculate and determine the total investment amount required for each new construction, expansion, renovation, and reconstruction project, based on the specific content of design documents at different design stages and the state-prescribed quotas, indicators, and various fee collection standards during the execution of the construction project procedures. They are economic reflections of construction projects at different construction stages, cost documents for pre-calculating and studying construction project prices, and the main basis for decision-making, allocation, control, management, accounting, and supervision of project investments.
The compilation of construction project budgets mainly includes the compilation basis, compilation content, compilation sequence, and quantity calculation methods.
The review of construction project budgets mainly includes whether the selection of quantity calculation rules for construction drawings is correct, whether there is double counting in quantity calculations, whether the quantity summary calculation is correct; whether there is unauthorized expansion of construction scale or raising of construction standards in the construction drawing design, whether there is over-application or misapplication of quotas, whether project indirect costs and taxes are correctly calculated according to relevant regulations, and whether the calculation of material prices is correct, etc.
Engineering settlement audit refers to the audit activities conducted by the general contractor, supervisor, cost consulting unit, and the project owner on the engineering settlement materials submitted by various contractors. It mainly includes: reviewing the implementation of contracts and supplementary contracts; reviewing whether the settlement content matches the actual project; reviewing whether the selection of quotas and various fee collections are correct; reviewing whether the calculation rules used for quantity calculation and the calculated quantities are accurate; reviewing whether the equipment and material consumption is consistent with the quota content or design content; reviewing the authenticity and reasonableness of design changes and negotiation content; reviewing changes in engineering material and equipment prices; reviewing changes in construction economic policies during project implementation; and reviewing the implementation of other relevant regulations on construction project cost management. The purpose is to provide a reference basis for the project owner and contractor to settle project payments.
The whole process or phase management and services for construction projects refer to the reasonable determination and effective control of the cost of construction projects. Its main work includes the preparation, review and adjustment of construction project investment estimates; project economic evaluation; preparation, review and adjustment of design estimates; preparation or review of construction drawing budgets; preparation and review of project bidding documents; bidding, bid evaluation and award; preparation of bill of quantities for bidding projects; preparation and review of bidding control prices; analysis of bid price reasonableness; consultation on the signing of construction contracts; management of the performance process of contracts related to project costs; measurement of quantities and review of progress payments; handling of design changes, engineering visas and engineering claims during construction; comparison and selection of design and construction schemes and optimization suggestions; investment analysis and risk control; audit of engineering settlement; preparation and review of final accounts for completion; post-evaluation of construction projects; and other tasks entrusted by the project owner.
The preparation of project completion final account reports refers to the final account report prepared by the project owner in the completion acceptance stage of new construction, renovation, and expansion construction projects in accordance with relevant national regulations after all construction projects are completed. It is also the basis for the project owner to verify newly added fixed assets.
The preparation of project completion final account reports mainly includes the completion status of project construction and installation investment, equipment investment, deferred investment and other investments, the project construction procedures, organizational management, sources and use of funds, financial management and accounting, the implementation of estimates (budgets), and the completion financial final account statements.
The review of project completion final account reports mainly includes the review of construction project funds, whether there are issues such as retention, misappropriation, diversion, or transfer of construction funds in the use and management of funds, whether bidding and fund payments are carried out in accordance with relevant regulations on government procurement and centralized treasury payment, whether income or surplus funds are handled in accordance with the relevant regulations of the basic construction financial system, and the actual fund balance of the construction fund account on the completion final account date.
Engineering cost information services refer to a series of consulting service activities that, based on customer needs, provide basic information related to engineering costs, bidding project information (engineering settlement, engineering design, construction visas, technical disclosure information), technical development information, market information (market prices of labor, materials, machinery, equipment), achievement information, etc., and process engineering cost business informationization.