Definition: Bill of quantities

Category: Purchasing power parities

The product specification that details the operations required to build a construction project. It covers the costs of inputs (labour, materials and plant), subcontracting, preliminaries and overheads. It also covers contractor’s profit or loss, architect’s and engineer’s fees and non-deductible taxes. A bill of quantities is structured to provide a weighted price for each component specified which, when summed across components, provide the purchasers’ price for the construction project described. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-RA-12-023&mode=view Eurostat and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "Eurostat - OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities (2005 Edition)", Methods and Nomenclatures, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2006European Union, Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2007 establishing common rules for the provision of basic information on Purchasing Power Parities and for their calculation and dissemination, Official Journal of the European Union No L 336, 20.12.2007, p. 1 - 24