<aside> 📙 What are cost items, what role do they play for quotations, how can I cancel only a part of a yard job, etc? In this article we will answer these questions and more.
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There are two different routes to take on Maindeck. The first is where you during the planning phase add cost items to the work orders that are "to be executed by" the yard. The alternative is where you don't add cost items. The first option will save you a lot of time during the tender process as well as make it easier to compare yards.
In order to ensure that your project has all required flexibility on handling cost, you should make sure you add cost items for the work orders that are to be executed by the yard. For work orders that you add from the list of standard work orders, these will be included automatically. For any new work orders, you should make sure these are registered.
Each work order can contain one or more cost items, each being either a per unit cost or lump sum.
<aside> 💡 Cost items have always been around historically: People used to specify in the description field "Please provide lump sum cost on X and per unit cost on Y". The downside then was the unstructured format which made it impossible to track these later, both during the tender process as well as the execution phase.
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How the cost items are defined on Maindeck:
Since we are in the planning phase, you are not adding any of the yard quotes at this stage. Instead, these cost items will together produce a template in which the yard can provide you with all the necessary price details. This will be the Excel file you export for the project, which is the next step.
When exporting the project, make sure to also export the Excel file.
The Excel file should be provided to each shipyard. This allows the shipyard to: