Take off quantities, build naira rates you can defend, keep a Lagos rate apart from an Abuja one, and issue a client-ready bill — offline, on your own device, for a one-time ₦39,999.
Every market above has a page of its own, and two of them say plainly that no national method of measurement ships for them — see what "localised" means here.
Each answers one question properly rather than repeating the brochure with "Nigeria" inserted into it.
What it replaces, what it costs, and why the Excel workbook keeps breaking.
Read 02Exactly what is implemented for Nigerian measurement, and exactly what is not.
Read 03A structure and a worked bill you can copy today, in Excel or in BillMate.
Read 04Materials, labour, plant, waste, productivity, overheads and profit, line by line.
Read 05Import an old schedule, match it, date it, and uplift it without losing provenance.
Read 06Timesing, deductions and casting into the bill — the audit trail behind a quantity.
Read 07A balanced answer. Excel is genuinely better at some of this.
Read 08The whole set, plus what we are writing next.
ReadHaulage, site access, artisan availability and material logistics differ enough between Nigerian cities that a single national rate is a fiction. BillMate records the location on every rate.
General observations about how Nigerian markets differ, not price data. BillMate publishes no Nigerian rate index — your library is the price basis, and we explain why.
This is what "defensible" means in practice: a rate you can open in front of a client and walk down.
| Constituent | Quantity | Unit | Cost | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material Cement, 42.5N — 7.0 bags/m³ including 5% waste | 7.35 | bag | ₦9,800 | ₦72,030 |
| Material Sharp sand — 0.44 m³ including 8% waste | 0.48 | m³ | ₦22,000 | ₦10,560 |
| Material Granite 19 mm — 0.88 m³ including 8% waste | 0.95 | m³ | ₦48,000 | ₦45,600 |
| Material Water, curing and admixture allowance | 1.00 | item | ₦1,500 | ₦1,500 |
| Labour Mason gang — mix, place, vibrate and finish | 1.60 | hr | ₦4,500 | ₦7,200 |
| Labour Labourer — batching and handling | 4.80 | hr | ₦2,200 | ₦10,560 |
| Plant Concrete mixer, 0.4 m³ — hire, fuel and operator | 0.55 | hr | ₦6,500 | ₦3,575 |
| Plant Poker vibrator — hire and fuel | 0.35 | hr | ₦3,000 | ₦1,050 |
| Net cost | ₦152,075 | |||
| Overheads and establishment charges, 10% | ₦15,207.50 | |||
| Profit and risk, 15% on net cost plus overheads | ₦25,092.38 | |||
| Unit rate per m³ | ₦192,374.88 | |||
Illustrative constituent costs for Lagos, 25 August 2026. These are an illustration of the method and are not current market prices — re-price every line against your own suppliers before use. The full walkthrough, line by line.
| Description | Unit | Rate | Location | Priced | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excavate trench n.e. 1.50 m deep, deposit spoil on site | m³ | ₦4,500 | Lagos — Lekki | 2026-05 | Priced tender | Current |
| 225 mm hollow sandcrete blockwork in walls, 1:6 mortar | m² | ₦8,200 | Lagos — Ikeja | 2026-06 | Priced tender | Current |
| Reinforced concrete grade 25 in ground beams | m³ | ₦182,400 | Lagos — Lekki | 2026-04 | Own build-up | Current |
| High-yield reinforcement, 12 mm, cut, bent and fixed | kg | ₦2,350 | Abuja — Gwarinpa | 2025-02 | Priced tender | Stale |
| Sawn formwork to sides of ground beams | m² | ₦6,800 | Port Harcourt | 2024-11 | Subcontract quote | Stale |
| Aluminium roofing sheet, 0.55 mm, long span, fixed | m² | ₦13,500 | Ibadan | 2026-06 | AI draft | Unverified |
Two of these are flagged stale: at 12 months BillMate stops treating a rate as current. In a market that has moved as much as Nigeria's has, that flag is the most useful thing in the table. Importing and uplifting a Nigerian schedule.
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Buy Team — ₦149,999On the price: Charged in naira at Selar checkout. This page shows the Africa price because you are reading the Africa page, and both buttons open the Africa product — nothing here is chosen from your IP address. Other regions, and the region selector, are on the pricing page. The amount you pay is the amount shown at checkout before you confirm. Selar is the merchant of record and applies the naira price at checkout, so no foreign card is needed.
What the money actually buys. Everything that makes the bill — taking-off, rate build-ups, the whole rate library — is free and stays free. The licence buys the paginated, letterheaded document you hand the client, and the AI. Line-by-line comparison. Naira price as at . Payment questions: support@billmate.site.
Yes. NIQS BESMM4(R) (Nigeria) ships as a work-section template — eighteen sections, from Preliminaries and General Items through to Civil Engineering Works — and with it selected the AI assistant is instructed in its work sections, item descriptions, deemed-included rules and units.
What we will not claim is compliance. A template structures the bill; it does not audit your measurement, and no software can. The full position, with the section list.
Yes. Everything except the AI assistant runs with no connection at all, because your projects and your rate library are stored on the device rather than on a server. A licence key needs the internet once when you activate it, and re-checks about every 3 days while you are online — and keeps working with no connection for up to 30 days.
The trade-off is real and worth saying: if the device is lost or wiped, the projects go with it. Back up — it is one file.
2 projects free, no sign-up, and nothing to install unless you want to.