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BOQ health check, against the drawings.
Consultant-produced bills of quantities and the pre-tender estimate, checked against the IFC drawings they were measured from. The aim is that a QS can see what is missing, what is overstated, what is understated and where a human error has crept in — before the tender is floated rather than after the bids disagree.
Why it matters: a tender is only as good as the BOQ it goes out with. Every error in that document is priced by every bidder, and then argued about after award.