# Malaysia reserves the preparation and submission of bills of quantities and tender documents to registered quantity surveyors

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Date: 2016-01-30 · Stage: Constraint
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## Scope

Malaysia. The Act says that, except as otherwise provided, no person or body other than a consultant or professional quantity surveyor residing and practising in Malaysia, or a consulting quantity surveying practice, is entitled to prepare and submit, for construction projects, feasibility reports, estimates, cost plans, bills of quantities and other tender documents, tender estimates, contract documents and valuations; architects, engineers and some other professions keep their own rights. Section 8 was last amended with effect from 30 January 2016. It reserves who prepares and submits these documents; it says nothing about the software used to draft them.

## Source

- Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia — Laws of Malaysia, Act 487, Quantity Surveyors Act 1967, reprint as at 1 May 2016, section 8 (last amended by Act A1481, in force 30 January 2016) — https://www.bqsm.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Final-Copy-Act-487-10-5-2016.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

In Malaysia, the bill of quantities a contractor prices is legally a registered quantity surveyor's document, whatever produced the measurements.

## What it does not show yet

One country's licensing law; it does not say how bills are produced or limit model-based quantity take-off under a surveyor's responsibility.

## How to verify it yourself

Open Act 487 (the Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia's reprint), go to section 8, and find "bills of quantities and other tender documents".


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