ABSTRACT

Although the more familiar terminology of Preliminaries and General Items is used in this book the principle of Method Related Charges separating non quantity related charges from quantity related charges is adopted. Generally the former are dealt with in this part, while the latter are dealt with in Part 4: Unit Costs. In this part non quantity related charges are further subdivided into those that are time related and those that are non time related.

The concept of METHOD RELATED CHARGES can be summarised as follows: