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boq-audit

Target Audience: Quantity surveyors, construction project managers, interior design firms, fit-out contractors, owner's representatives, and procurement leads who receive contractor BOQs or bids and need to validate them against industry standards before award or payment.

  • Area: Operations
  • Category: engineering
  • Level: expert
  • Input: conversation
  • Output: document
  • Setup: mcp, api-key
  • Roles: Operations Manager, Finance Manager

Audit construction Bills of Quantities (BOQ) and contractor bids for specification gaps, quantity anomalies, and Extra Over pricing errors — exporting a normalised…

How you ask

  • “Bill of quantities”
  • “Audit BOQ”
  • “Level bids”

Inputs

  • boq-file — Path to the BOQ file (CSV, XLSX, or PDF). Must include item description, unit, quantity, rate, amount columns.
  • project-context — One-line project description (sector, scope, region) — sharpens flag prioritisation.
  • drawings-ref — Path or summary of architectural drawings (RCP, plans) used to cross-reference geometry.
  • notebook-alias — NotebookLM alias for the matter — must contain the client's spec book, accepted brand list, regional price list, contract, and any prior-project BOQ history. Per provenance-standard.md, grounding is required, not optional. If no alias exists, stop and ask before proceeding.
  • bid-files — Comma-separated paths to 2+ contractor bid files (CSV/XLSX/PDF).
  • sov-template — Optional path to a custom SOV category map; defaults to the bundled SOV template.
  • notebook-alias — NotebookLM alias for the matter — must contain the tender package, contractor bid documents, and reference price list. Per provenance-standard.md, grounding is required. If no alias exists, stop and ask before proceeding.
  • audit-report — Path to a prior audit report from the audit-boq route.
  • boq-file — Path to the BOQ; volatile items are auto-detected (steel, cement, copper, tariff-exposed imports).
  • index-source — Index reference (default — local statistics agency CPI for construction materials).
  • project-context — Project description — sector, scope, regions, scale.

Outputs

  • anomaly-json (json)
  • audit-report (markdown)
  • boq-csv (csv)
  • boq-scaffold (markdown)
  • checklist (markdown)
  • clauses (markdown)
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  • sov-csv (csv)
  • sov-report (markdown)