a brief analysis of 60 successful tenders quantities and prices in new road construction,1969

from 1969 onwards,the basic statistics from the successful tenders for roadworks costing over 25,000 have been recorded on special forms at ministry of transport (later department of the environment)headquarters at st christopher house,london,from the file for 1969,sixty new road tenders have been examined in the present surey to find (a) the average prices of the various major items and what proportion each forms of the total,(b)the average amounts of materials involved in the major items,and (c)the proportions being used of each of the various alternative roadbase types at present permitted. the data are presented in this report largely as tables and diagrams.(a)