The Workflow

A civil work moves through these stages. Each later stage reads the data of the earlier ones, so they are normally done in order.

#	Stage	What you do
1	Estimation	Add items from the Schedule of Rates (or non-schedule items), quantities and sub-groups; produce the Detailed Estimate / Abstract of Cost.
2	SoR Analysis	Compute the analysed rate of each item from scheduled basic rates.
3	MR Justification	Justify rates against current market rates; writes the justified rate (JR).
4	DNIT	Set tender basis / tendering type, material issues and security; print the DNIT tender schedule.
5	Bids Comparison	Enter tender agencies and their quoted rates; the lowest bidder is found.
6	Agreement	Finalise the work-order schedule and the per-item agreement rates.
7	Bills	Prepare the contractor’s running-account / first & final bill, deviations and recoveries.
8	Reports	Preview, print or save any report as PDF.

Upstream lock: once a downstream stage is signed off (DNIT or Agreement finalised, or a bill exists) the rates feeding it are frozen. For example, MR Justification becomes read-only after a bill is prepared. Remove the downstream stage to edit an earlier one again.