Smart Bill of Quantities

Take over existing BOQ

Anyone who creates a Bill of Quantities (BOQ) often wants to make use of previous versions. With NOVA AVA, you can import existing specifications via GAEB, ÖNORM A 2063 or as an Excel file and use them as templates for your new projects.

Use tender texts

You can search for new tender texts in common text systems such as STLB-BAU, DBD-BIM, BKI or Heinze and transfer them directly into the NOVA AVA software. To use this option, you will need paid access to most providers.

Unique NOVA SmartPool

No other AVA software offers you this: Create a well-founded Bill of Quantities with the collective knowledge of the NOVA AVA user community. Access all BOQ items that have ever been awarded, i.e. actually commissioned, with NOVA AVA. This huge data pool comprises millions of item texts with real market prices. It is exclusively available to you as a NOVA AVA customer – at no additional cost and in full compliance with data protection regulations: only individual items can be searched; the BOQ specifications of NOVA customers remain protected.

Practical price memory per master BOQ

Many service items (e.g. typical shell construction work) recur repeatedly in different projects. You can take advantage of this by setting up and maintaining a master bill of quantities. From there, you only need to transfer the required items to your tender specifications in read-only mode. And the best thing is: if you proceed in this way, a useful price memory will be built up for the items in your master service specifications – fed with the prices from your tender specifications.

Precise quantity determination

Tender texts without quantities are only half the battle. NOVA AVA supports you in determining the quantities for the service items:

Determine the quantity using the formula editor. Similar to Excel, the formula is saved as a calculation approach. The REB 23.003 formula collection is included in NOVA AVA.

Calculation approaches can contain references to other service items. This means that if a certain quantity is calculated for one item, the quantities of other items can also be calculated – for example, the quantity for painting or the length of the skirting board with the area of the wall.

You can add texts and comments to the calculation approaches. This ensures comprehensibility.

Simple assignment to cost centers

With NOVA AVA, you can assign service items to specific cost groups or cost units. You can also divide up the quantities (later costs), for example to different carriers of the construction project. This is either done on a percentage basis. Or you can define this specifically when determining the quantities with the calculation approach.

Fast, efficient work

With NOVA AVA, all operations are quick and easy:

• You can simply copy or move elements using drag & drop. Several selected elements (e.g. LV items) can be edited simultaneously (multimod).
• With our fast and powerful editor, you can work directly in the LV table or in the item detail window. You always have everything in view – even the long texts.
• All texts can be formatted – even with bulleted lists and indents.
• You can add tables and graphics to texts and insert text modules using the autotext function.
• You can embed bidder queries (e.g. for product and manufacturer information) directly in BOQ.

Different processing statuses can be saved in the system using the archiving function and reset if required.

Professional appearance

A Bill of Quantities created with NOVA AVA is impressive: It is clearly laid out, structured with up to 5 levels and numbered consecutively with ordinal numbers. It can carry your logo if you wish and can be adapted to your requirements in terms of font and font size. All GAEB XML certified – with everything you need:

• Preliminary remarks and notes
• Short and long texts of the items
• Design descriptions with item references
• Basic, alternative and contingent position
• Surcharge items, main and sub-descriptions
• Repetition descriptions for the abbreviated spelling
• and much more.

Simple verification

Use NOVA AVA to check your Bill of Quantities while you are still working on it – and then put it through its paces before you hand it over. For a quick check “in between”, you can output the BOQ at any time in exactly the same form as it is currently displayed on the screen.

NOVA AVA checks for you before forwarding:

• Does each service item have a quantity and a unit of measure?
• Are there errors and warnings?

From the test report, you can go directly from “Error/warning” to the relevant items and make corrections there.

Various output formats

Once your Bill of Quantities has been created and checked, you can choose between different output formats:

• as GAEB 83 as part of the request for quotation (invitation to tender)
• as GAEB 81 or GAEB 82 as a cost estimate for the client
• as an Excel file with calculation formulas
• as PDF in optimized (= smaller) file size