Profit, additional costs and totals

From resources to the grand total

A BoQ price is built bottom-up in seven steps. Each step is recalculated automatically as soon as anything below it changes — a resource, a percentage or a quantity. There is no Recalculate button.

Internally BuildColab stores money with three extra decimal places, so intermediate results are not rounded too early; resource values are shown with 3 decimals, prices and totals with 2. Money is shown in the project currency (EUR).

Additional costs

Additional costs (Bulgarian допълнителни разходи) are the overheads you add on top of direct costs — site overheads, general company costs and similar. In the resource analysis they are set as a separate percentage for each resource type: one % for materials, one for labor, one for machinery, one for services. Each percentage applies only to the direct costs of its own type. For example, 50% on labor does not change the material cost.

Delivery and storage costs (DSC %, Bulgarian ДСР %) are different: they are entered per material row and are already included in that row's value (step 1). The additional coefficient (AC, ДК) is a multiplier per resource row, also in step 1.

There is no fixed-amount additional cost in the resource analysis. If you need a fixed amount per unit, add it as a service row.

Profit

Profit (печалба) is a percentage of the total costs of the analysis (step 5), set in the Profit: row of the cost summary. It can be any value of 0 or more, with up to 4 decimals. A direct price typed into the grid has no profit: it becomes a single "Unit price" line with 0% profit.

Worked example

Position "Ceramic floor tiles on adhesive", quantity 120 m², priced with this resource analysis for 1 m²:

Additional costs: materials 0%, labor 50%. Profit: 10%.

• Profit = 36.48 × 10% = 3.648.
• Unit price = 36.48 + 3.648 = 40.128, rounded to 40.13 EUR per m².
• Position value = 40.13 × 120 = 4,815.60 EUR.
• If the category "Floors" also contains "Skirting" with a value of 1,184.40 EUR, the category total is 4,815.60 + 1,184.40 = 6,000.00 EUR.
• If the BoQ has one more category "Walls" with 14,000.00 EUR, the BoQ grand total is 20,000.00 EUR.

If you now raise the labor additional costs to 60%, labor add. costs become 5.94, total costs 37.47, profit 3.747, unit price 41.22 EUR, and the position value 4,946.40 EUR — the category and grand totals follow immediately.

1. The Direct costs (Преки разходи) column: the sum of each type's resource values.
2. The Add. costs % field of each type, editable.
3. The Add. costs Value: direct costs × %.
4. The Total row: total costs of the analysis.
5. The Profit: row with the profit % and the profit value.
6. The resulting unit price per unit of measure.

How to set additional costs or profit on one position

1. In the BoQ editor, tick the position. The Resource analysis panel opens.
2. In the cost summary, click the % field of the type row (for additional costs) or of the Profit: row.
3. Type the percentage and press Enter or ✓. Esc or ✗ cancels.

The change applies to the shared analysis, so all identical positions in the BoQ (same description, unit and note) get the new unit price. If the BoQ version is locked, confirm the New version warning first.

How to set the same profit or additional costs on many positions

1. In the BoQ editor, tick several positions, a category, or all top-level categories to cover the whole BoQ. The panel becomes Report (Справка).
2. In the Report's cost summary, type the profit % or an additional-cost % and press Enter or ✓.

BORO can do the same for a whole BoQ in one step ("set 12% profit on this BoQ"). In the BORO panel the change waits for your approval by default; over MCP no approval is asked.

How the Report sums several positions

The Report of several positions weights every analysis by its position's quantity:

• direct costs per type = Σ (direct cost per unit × position quantity);
• resources are grouped by library item; Qty = Σ (consumption rate × position quantity);
• rates and AC are quantity-weighted averages;
• the additional-cost % shown is the effective weighted percentage; profit % = Σ profit ÷ Σ costs;
• the last column shows the summed total, labeled "summed".

1. The ticked category in the grid selects all positions under it.
2. The panel title Report (Справка) with the number of selected work items and their Total value.
3. The weighted cost summary; a % saved here is set on every selected analysis.
4. The Qty (К-во) column: consumption rate × position quantity, added up.

Where totals appear

Material and labor split in the export

The Excel export can show separate material and labor unit prices (Split (material / labour)). The material unit price is the unit price × (material resources ÷ total costs of the analysis); the labor unit price is the rest of the unit price. Each row total is quantity × (material + labor). See Exporting.

Checking for inconsistent prices

The same work should have one price in a BoQ. Within one BoQ, positions with the same description, unit and note share one analysis, so they cannot differ. Positions that differ only in their note (for example "Floor 1" and "Floor 2") can have different prices. When importing, rows with the same description, unit and note but different prices are reported as unit-price conflicts and must be resolved before saving. BORO can list positions in a BoQ where the same work (description and unit) is priced differently.

Common questions

Related

• Resource analysis
• Task templates and price history
• Exporting
• Financial dashboard: committed, certified, margin