Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

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VOLUME-I

UNIFIED SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR

COMMON AND BUILDING CONSTRUCTION WORKS

2023
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PREFACE

Ever since establishment of Bombay Municipal Corporation (now

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) in 1888 by the erstwhile British rulers in India ,
in the last 125 years of the history of its existence B.M.C. has catered to every
aspect of the citizen of Mumbai that can be conceived of. Look to heritage buildings
like Victoria Terminus (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus), Office of Municipal
Corporation, Dadabai Naoroji Road, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Marine Drive
(Netaji Subhash Road), Prince of Wales Museum, Gateway of India, Malabar Hill
Reservoir, Nair Hospital, Lokmanya Tilak Hospital, K.E.M. Hospital etc which are the
service centers for the citizens. Municipal Services have also been provided in the
suburban and extended suburban areas merged in 1950 & 1957 respectively. The
obligatory duties are performed well but still there is need to improve in quantity and
quality of services to be provided to the citizens.

Ethical governance and righteous work culture will certainly bring positive
changes in design and implementation of projects. One may take an example of the
first Municipal Head Quarter Building, that was completed in year 1893, in four years,
designed by F W Stevens and the execution part was dealt by Project Engineer Shri
RaoSaheb Sitaram Khanderrao Vaidya, who executed the project of 77.70m high
structure and saved Rs.68,000/- as against estimated cost of Rs. 11.80 Lakhs.

The need is to work with precision and accuracy. There shall be harmony
between planning and execution so as to evolve best economics with focused goals.

B.M.C. is one of the largest local self government in the Asian Continent. In
observance of historic traditions of strong civic activism, with the change in time and
living conditions to match with the urbanization, B.M.C. has focused in providing
variety of engineering services viz, storm water drain, sewerage, water supply,
roads, bridges, solid waste management, environmental services. Beside this, the
Corporation is also providing dedicated services in the Health sector by establishing
Major and Peripheral hospitals.

To update and modernize the mechanism being used for working on related
projects from the stage of conceptualization to execution, the need was realized to

operation with various departments and being prepared individually as per their need
and revised at different span of time, resulting into various anomalies. To overcome

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all these, it was essential to revise the schedule of rates, not only with simple
mechanized revision but incorporating major changes to keep up with the pace of
urbanization, civilization, construction techniques / mechanization and voluminous
developments by restructuring items in the schedule to cover all requirements. This
exercise would provide comfort with designs and field necessities and will assist in
effective checks on creation of extra items during execution.

A conscious decision has been taken to prepare Unified Schedule of Rates to

keep pace with the changing time; a first step forward in this direction. Since long
time, there have been demands made by the stake holders like Municipal Engineers
and Contractors to remove non-uniformity, anomalies and discrepancies in various
schedules of rates for work contracts of various departments of B.M.C.Every
department had its own expertise and way of functioning which got reflected in its
independent schedule of rates, which however, had no linkage with the fair market
rates and schedules of other departments, resulting into extra items and fair rates. In
place of earlier 10 Schedule Of Rates, the Unified Schedule of Rates is an effort and
seeks to rectify the defects, discrepancies and non uniformities which will provide
ease and accuracy of estimation to the Engineers.

The Unified Scheduled of Rates is linked with its comprehensive

specifications of basic important activities so as to have clarity in execution. These
specifications follow a chronology of general scope of the item, material required,
processing of material, construction operation, finishing and mode of measurement.
Rigid Standard Operating Procedures (S.O.Ps) and complete control on processes
will certainly satisfy quality parameter. The need for checking the quality of
construction is quite apparent and shall be ensured throughout the construction
process. To achieve this, the Unified Scheduled of Rates incorporates quality
assurance procedures.

All the rates are also linked to their detailed specifications and wherever
required, with drawings. Though there are about 2,431 items in SOR-2023 of City
Engineer and Chief Engineer (B.M.+ H.I.C.)., every item is now given a Unique Code
No. which will eliminate the repetition.

It has been our endeavour to include all the necessary modern materials and
technologies in Unified Schedule of Rates, for example, the concept of green
building, which will go a long way to have control on creation of extra items and fair
rates. A salient feature of this Unified Schedule of Rates is 'Starring of items'
specified categorically which can be used only at certain works or locations.

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Another salient feature is 'Dynamic Rate System' which will be based on

study of data base of quantities and bidding prices of awarded contracts on the basis of
which necessary corrections can be applied to the Unified Schedule of Rates at
specified intervals. AccordinglyB.M.C. had finalized Unified Schedule of Rates and
same were uploaded in October 2013.

The central government has enacted the law of Goods and Services Tax and
issued the directive to implement the goods and services tax with effect from 1st July
2017. With G.S.T. coming into effect force, Octroi, VAT, etc. were abolished and one
single tax structure came into effect. The Unified schedule of Rates of B.M.C. has
been revised with the help of M/s Tata consulting Engineeers by taking due
cognizance of G.S.T. However during current revision GST is excluded and all rates are
exclusive of GST.
Highlights of the Revised Schedule:

The items in schedule of rates are linked to the rate analysis and further the
rate analysis is linked to basic material rates, labour rates and machinery
rates.

Also, various items are linked to their comprehensive specifications of basic

important activities and drawings so as to have clarity in execution.

The new rate analysis format in excel, has been formulated separately
showing the taxes applicable, in order to have clear understanding of the
taxes levied on material, machinery, labour etc.

Further revisions in U.S.O.R. shall become a simple process due to the

current rate analysis format.

All these items are provided with technical specifications, in fixed chronology
with unified code for each item with linkages for rate analysis and
specifications

This will also assist in minimizing and to have effective checks on creation of
extra items.

This complete exercise is certainly going to facilitate Engineers working in the

office for the estimation as well as in execution.

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A new nomenclature with the prefix R3 has been adopted to

highlight the revision of schedule.

I am sure that Revised 'Unified Scheduled of Rates' will be a useful in

civic governance by B.M.C. This publication shall be of great help and guidance to the
officers engaged in the project work of B.M.C.

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Ch.Eng.(B.M.) Dir.(ES&P)

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

 GENERAL NOTES

A. COMMON GENERAL NOTES

1. The schedule of rates will be operative from 01/02/2023

2. The unified schedule of rates includes following department:

i. Buildings

ii. Water Supply Projects

iii. Hydraulic Engineering

iv. Sewerage Projects

v. Storm Water Drainage

vi. Roads

vii. Bridges

viii. Traffic and Signals

ix. Mechanical and Electrical

x. Garden Works

3. Volume-I contains USR, basic rate list and approved makes and Volume-II
contains specification along with drawings wherever necessary and mandatory
tests.

4. The specification of the items shall be as per latest Indian Standard Codes unless
otherwise specified.

5. The rates of the items in this schedule of rates are worked out assuming average
lead for Greater Mumbai area for all sorts of materials.

6. The rates are inclusive of transportation, duties, taxes and charges of all
Government, Municipal or any other statutory body, applicable from time to time
but exclusive of Works Contract Tax and LabourCess levied by Government of
Maharashtra.

7.
inclusive of labour supervision charges, tools and plants.

8. Rates of common material and labour is attached in the Annexure-A in Volume-I.