Bill of Quantities

BOQ software for Malaysian construction

Caprix AI drafts, prices, checks and exports tender-ready SMM2 Bills of Quantities. Describe the project in a few lines and the BOQ Agents write the bill; import the one you already have in Excel or PDF; then price it against real Malaysian material, labour and machinery rates.

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30 free credits every month · No credit card needed · Building a bill by hand is free on every plan; AI skills spend credits

What BOQ software has to get right

A Bill of Quantities is the priced spine of a tender. It breaks the works into measurable items, each with a description, a unit, a quantity and a rate, so that every tenderer prices the same scope on the same basis. In Malaysia that structure follows the Standard Method of Measurement — SMM2 in practice on most jobs — and getting the structure wrong is expensive: mispriced items, uncomparable tenders, and arguments at valuation.

Most of the work in preparing a bill is not judgement, it is formatting and lookup. Writing item descriptions that follow the method. Chasing a current rate for grade 30 concrete in the right state. Re-numbering a section after a late change. Caprix targets exactly that layer, and leaves the measurement judgement with you.

The BOQ Agents

Draft

Writes the full SMM2 bill structure from a short brief: trades, correctly worded items and units, ready for you to measure and price. 20 credits.

Import

Reads an existing bill out of Excel or PDF and maps it into the builder. Excel is free; PDF costs 1 credit per 5 pages.

Review

Reads the bill back and flags gaps, duplicated items, suspect quantities and rates that look out of line. 5 credits.

Compare

Puts two or more priced projects side by side and explains where the money differs. From 10 credits for two projects.

Items

Drafts the missing items for one bill or trade, with descriptions and units that follow the method, for you to review before they are added. 5 credits.

Rate lookup, in place

Ask for a rate without leaving the bill — 2 credits — and drop the answer straight into the row you are pricing.

From a brief to a tender-ready bill

Start the project. Describe the works in a few lines, or import the bill you already have.
Let Draft write the structure. Bills, sections and SMM2 item descriptions, numbered and formatted.
Price it. Pull unit rates for material, labour and machinery, or build a rate up from its components and save it to your rate library for reuse.
Rebase to the site. Apply the location index so rates reflect the state the project is actually in, not a national average.
Check it. Review reads the whole bill back and flags what looks wrong before it goes out.
Export. Tender-ready PDF, password-protected if you need it. Free exports carry a watermark; Pro and Max export clean PDFs.
Handle changes. After issue, addenda and variation orders track edits against the frozen bill instead of overwriting it.

What each action costs

Action	Credits	Plan
Building and editing a bill by hand	Free	All plans
Draft — full bill	20	All plans
Items — one bill or trade	5	All plans
Review	5	All plans
AI rate lookup inside a bill	2	All plans
Import — Excel	Free	All plans
Import — PDF	1 per 5 pages	All plans
Compare	From 10	All plans
Rate library	Free	All plans
PDF preview & export	1 per 5 pages (free with a watermark on Free)	Every plan (clean on Pro & Max)

The free plan resets 30 credits every month. Pro is RM49 a month with 2,000 credits every month; Max is RM99 a month with 4,000. See the full plan comparison →

The rate lookups that price a bill also have a coverage limit on the free plan: 8 categories in each price type and 5 locations. The rest of the dataset stays visible in the rate picker, marked Pro, so you can see what a paid plan adds before you pay for it.

Who uses it

Quantity surveyors and estimators preparing tender documents, contractors pricing bills they have received, developers and project managers sanity-checking a submission, and students learning how a bill is put together. Firms running several estimators can put everyone on a Corporate account and share one BOQ workspace and one company rate library.

Questions about BOQ software

Does Caprix produce Bills of Quantities in SMM2 format?

Yes. Draft writes bills to SMM2 from a short project brief, and the BOQ Builder keeps the SMM2 structure — bills, sections, item descriptions, quantities, units and rates — as you edit. SMM3 support is in development and is not available yet.

Can I import an existing BOQ instead of starting from scratch?

Yes. Import reads an Excel bill and maps its columns to the builder's structure, and it reads PDF bills too. Excel import is free on every plan; PDF import costs 1 credit per 5 pages.

Is the BOQ Builder free?

The builder itself is free on every plan, including the free plan. Individual AI actions spend credits, and tender-ready PDF preview and export are Pro and Max features.

How does Caprix handle variations after a bill has been issued?

Through addenda and variation orders. Once a bill is issued you open a change set, edit it normally, and Caprix tracks the difference against the frozen reference — so the original bill stays intact and the change is auditable.

Can several estimators work on the same bill?

Yes, on a Corporate account. A shared BOQ workspace lets team members edit the same bill live, with presence and locking so two people do not overwrite each other, plus a shared company rate library.

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