• Produce costings, benchmarking, planning, budgeting, forecasting and estimating, and cost control

Formerly known as:

• BIS Construction Price and Cost Indices/BERR Construction Price and Cost Indices
• Quarterly Price & Cost Indices for Construction Works

• Select indices as a group and view in both table and graphical format and download in a PDF or CSV file
• Access to superseded versions of indices within our archive
• The previous generation of BIS Output Indices
• News updates on the indices and guidance on how they should be applied

• Quantity surveyors
• Contractors
• Consultancy
• Local/Central Government
• Housing Associations
• Universities
• Commercial Property Surveyors
• Developers

• • BCIS Index Series
  • PUBSEC Indices
  • Building Tender Price Indices
  • Location Study of Building Tender Price Indices
  • Function Study of Building Tender Price Indices
  • Forecasts are provided for the PUBSEC TPI for Non-Housing
  • ROADCON Index – Road Construction Tender Price Indices

Indices include:

BCIS will produce and publish a continuation series based on the same project data, using a similar methodology as the existing series, BCIS is exploring improved methods or calculate Location factors, Road type factors and Value factors. The existing factors will not be updated; the last published factors can be used in the short term and further advice will be published in due course.

• ALLCOS Index – All Construction Resource Cost Indices
• NOCOS Index – Building Non-Housing Resource Cost Indices
• HOCOS Index – House Building Resource Cost Indices
• ROCOS Index – Road Construction Resource Cost Indices
• FOCOS Index – Infrastructure Resource Cost Indices
• NOMACOS Index – Building Maintenance Non-Housing Resource Cost Indices
• HOMACOS Index – House Building Maintenance Resource Cost Indices
• FORVOP – Projected Formula VOP Indices
• BIS Index Series – As part of the service RICS publish the ‘new generation’ of the BIS Indices when available.

These indices cover:

‘Input Cost Indices’, which are based on material and plant costs to contractors and construction average weekly earnings. There are separate indices for each sector based on a different, un-weighted, mix of materials and plant and different weightings for labour material and plant.

‘Output Prices Indices’ based on the Input Cost Indices adjusted by a market factor. The market factor is derived from statistics on employment, output and average earnings

For more information about the BCIS Public Sector Price and Cost Indices contact us on +44 0330 341 1000, or email contactbcis@bcis.co.uk