Engineering consultancy software: supervision, contractor certificate approval and request review

Ta3mir is Arabic software for engineering consultancy offices. The office reviews the contractor’s certificate item by item against the BOQ and approves it, then issues the owner’s payment certificate and bills the supervision fee. RFIs, material approvals and inspection requests pass a documented approval path, and the owner follows the project from their portal.

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What a consultancy office needs, in one program

Each section is a module that runs today in a consultant account, and each module has its own page.

Reviewing and approving contractor certificates

Import the contractor’s certificate from Excel into a review screen, check every item before it enters the project, then approve it. The approved certificate produces the owner’s document: a payment certificate of the contractor’s net, which the owner pays the contractor directly, or, when the office handles the payment, a certificate of the contractor’s net plus the supervision fee.

  • The BOQ is the review reference: a warning when an item goes past what is left of it, never a block
  • Items missing from the BOQ are added only after you confirm them
  • When the owner is on the approval path, they approve in their portal or by an e-mailed link with a one-time code
Payment certificate software

RFIs, material approvals and documents

RFIs, material approvals, shop drawings, change orders and handover minutes reach one inbox, and every step shows the approving party, the signer, the decision and the date. Around them sit the drawing register with revisions, specifications, correspondence, transmittals and meeting minutes.

  • Sequential numbering per form type and bilingual print
  • A contractor on Ta3mir invites you to its project, and its forms reach you in the collaboration portal
  • Ready folders for project documents
Technical office

Supervision, inspection requests and quality

Run quality checklists item by item with a result, a note and a photo, review the inspection requests the contractor sends, and raise a non-conformance report (NCR) that the consultant signs and the contractor acknowledges.

  • Checklists with a result per item
  • Raise an NCR from a rejected inspection request
  • A report of inspection request results
Supervision and quality

BOQ and take-off

Prepare the project BOQ and measurement sheets, or import them from Excel, so they become the reference contractor certificates are reviewed against.

  • Measurement sheets linked to the BOQ
  • BOQ import from Excel and export to it
Quantity take-off software

Schedule and earned value

Follow the schedule on a Gantt chart with the critical path, measure progress with earned value, SPI and CPI, and import Primavera P6 and MS Project schedules.

  • Baselines to measure variance against
  • XER, P6 XML and MSP XML import and export
Scheduling and earned value

Supervision fees and office accounts

The supervision fee is a percentage of the certified value before deductions, or follows the project’s fee agreement: a lump sum in instalments, a monthly fee, a resident engineer or design stages. Fees are billed on their own invoices, or inside the owner certificate when the office handles the payment to the contractor.

  • A fee as a percentage of certified work, a lump sum, monthly, per resident engineer or by design stage
  • Invoices and receivables with ageing
  • Expense claims filed by team members that pass an approval
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Is the consultancy software free?

The free engineering tools and Excel templates are fully free, with no sign-up and no email. You can also try a consultancy demo account with ready project data for free before you subscribe. The consultant account itself is a paid subscription: the “Consultant Office” plan starts at EGP 1,690 a month, with quarterly or yearly billing as options.

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Does it work with Excel?

Yes. A contractor who does not use Ta3mir sends its certificate as an Excel file, and you review it inside Ta3mir.

  • Import the contractor’s certificate from Excel into a review screen before approval
  • BOQ import from Excel and export to it
  • Export reports to Excel, with Arabic A4 print
  • Free Excel templates for the final certificate, handover minutes and the RFI
Free Excel templates

Guides and templates for consultancy offices

Consultancy software FAQ

Does the contractor have to use Ta3mir too?

No. You can import the contractor’s certificate from an Excel file and review it inside Ta3mir. If the contractor works on Ta3mir and invites you to its project, its forms reach you in the collaboration portal.

How does the owner approve a certificate?

When you put the owner on the certificate’s approval path, they approve in the project owner portal or by a link sent by e-mail with a one-time code. Every signature keeps its author and date.

How is the supervision fee computed?

Either as a percentage of the certified value before deductions, or by the fee agreement: a lump sum in instalments, a monthly fee, a resident engineer or design stages. It is billed on its own invoices, or inside the owner certificate when the office handles the payment to the contractor.

What if certificate quantities exceed the BOQ?

Ta3mir warns you when an item’s value goes past what is left of it in the BOQ, without blocking the save, and the decision stays yours.

Can I see which requests are overdue?

Yes. The contractor’s requests reach one approvals inbox sorted by reply date, and each project has a reply window you set in days, so overdue requests show first.

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