A Bill of Quantities you can actually defend
Rate analysis built from your own market rates — change cement once and the whole bill re-prices. Free, no account.
What it does
A price book that drives the whole bill
Materials, labour and equipment live in one table with your district's current rates. Every analysed item references it, so when cement moves sixty rupees a bag you edit one number and the item rates, section subtotals and grand total all move with it.
Rate analysis, item by item
Each item can carry a recipe: the resource quantities consumed per one unit of finished work, in the shape DUDBC norms use. The rate computes itself, turns green, and exports as a supporting sheet — which is exactly what a tender means when it asks for detailed rate analysis.
An item library that gets you started
Sixteen of the items that appear on almost every job here — excavation, PCC, M15, M20 and M25, reinforcement, formwork, brickwork, DPC, plaster, punning, tiling and painting — arrive with their rate analysis already built. Enter a quantity and the item prices itself.
Wastage, overhead, contingency and VAT
Wastage is added per resource line where it belongs, not hidden in the margin. Overheads and profit apply once at the bottom, contingency is its own line, and Nepal's 13% VAT sits on the subtotal as a labelled row — the build-up clients and auditors expect to see.
A running cost tape
Pinned to the bottom of the console: the grand total, and a bar showing what the total is made of — material against labour against equipment. That split is the first thing anyone senior asks about, and it is visible without opening anything.
Excel, backup and print
One click produces a workbook with the bill, the full rate build-up of every analysed item, and the rates you used. A JSON backup moves an estimate between machines, and printing produces a clean paper document rather than a screenshot of an app.
Getting started
Three steps. Nothing to configure.
- 1
Open the calculator — no account, nothing to install — and name the estimate.
- 2
Set your district's rates in the price book, then add items from the library or write your own and give each one a quantity.
- 3
Set overhead and profit, add contingency if the job needs it, toggle VAT, and export to Excel.
Why it's worth it
A rate you can show your working for wins arguments
‘That is the market rate’ is not a defence. A sheet showing the cement, sand, aggregate, mason-days and labour-days behind the number is, and it is what stops a client or an evaluation committee from knocking the price down on suspicion alone.
Rates change; re-typing them should not be the cost
The expensive part of a rate rise is not the rise, it is re-doing an estimate that hard-typed every rate into every row. One price book means one edit.
Free, because the site office is the product
Individual engineers and two-person consultancies get the whole calculator with nothing held back. When a project moves from estimate to execution, the same BOQ carries into Neo-Struct workspaces with schedules, RA bills, variations and cost ledgers.
BOQ Calculator — frequently asked questions
The things people actually ask before signing up.
Do I need an account to use the BOQ calculator?
No. The calculator, the item library, rate analysis and Excel export all work with no sign-up. Your estimates are saved in your own browser on your own device. An account adds cloud saving across machines.
Where does the rate analysis data come from?
The recipe quantities follow the shape of DUDBC norms — resource consumption per unit of finished work — and the rates that ship with it are indicative Kathmandu-valley figures. Both are editable starting points, and the tool says so; adjust them to your district before you submit anything.
Can I keep more than one estimate?
Yes. Estimates are switched from the title block and each one keeps its own price book, sections and settings, so a revision or a second project does not disturb the first.
How is wastage handled?
Each resource line in a rate analysis has its own wastage percentage, applied on top of the theoretical quantity. That keeps wastage visible in the build-up rather than buried inside the profit margin where nobody can audit it.
What does the Excel export contain?
Three sheets: the bill itself with sections, items, subtotals, overhead and profit, contingency, VAT and grand total; the full resource build-up of every analysed item; and the list of rates used. Together they are the supporting document a tender asks for.
Is my estimate uploaded anywhere?
No. Without an account nothing leaves the browser — there is no server copy at all. That also means clearing your browser data clears the estimate, so use the Excel or backup export for anything you need to keep.
BOQ Calculator is free. So is everything else.
One account gives you the Nepali calendar, notes, reminders and every dashboard tool — with no ads and nothing sold to advertisers.
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