SOR 2015

Revision of Schedule of Rates 2015

It is our pleasure to inform you that IndSTT has initiated the process of revision of Schedule of Rates for Construction Contract Employing Trenchless Technology, Seventh Edition (SoR) released in August 2014.

It is planned to release the revised & updated eight edition of the SoR during first week of August 2015, at New Delhi.

The revision shall be focusing at the following issues:

  1. Revisiting all the unit rates of trenchless techniques & revising the rates wherever input costs have changed substantially since 2014.
  2. Amplifying/enhancing the item description/work scope details of items to remove ambiguity, if any.
  3. Introducing new items of work, if required.
  4. Rates for any other related activities not covered yet.

We are now inviting self-nominations for this revision work from the stakeholders interested to provide inputs in this revision.

Importance of this Schedule of Rates can be understood from the fact that the project planning process done without such schedule would be forced to use alternate rates of conventional process which, at times, are way below certain trenchless rates. This leads to an underestimated project value and at the time of tendering, award, or execution, all the involved stakeholders face difficulty in justifying the costs desired by trenchless service providers. This abrasion can be removed by the use of up-to-date Schedule of Rates as proposed and therefore this effort.

In this connection, we are also inviting you to advertise in this publication at 22 various locations for enabling them in sensitizing users about their services. The layout of the publication has been developed & is hosted on our website athttp://www.indstt.com/pub/Sor/sor.htm.

Advertisement tariff and other information is also hosted on our website athttp://www.indstt.com/pub/Sor/Tariff_Sheet.pdf

We hope, you will find the above of your interest & invite your suggestions for incorporation / actions at our end, if any. Further, Should you be interested to provide inputs /advertisements in this edition of book, you may do so immediately.

In case of any clarification please communicate to us.

Your comments / expressions may kindly be sent to us by 15th July 2015 for necessary actions at our end.

With regards,

INDSTT