When you need it
Use when a project needs a structured investment estimate or budget review. Maintain it as scope, evidence maturity and package timing develop from feasibility through procurement and construction planning.
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Capital Expenditure Cost Plan
Organize investment cost by defined scope, timing and evidence maturity with a clear funding boundary.
How to use this templateThis Excel template contains prepared working sheets and completion notes on a separate sheet. Enter your project data and review the completed workbook before use.
This editable workbook helps you organise project information. Check any included formulas, assumptions and results before use; it does not replace professional review.
The form prepares a separate brief; it does not fill the Word or Excel file.
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Learning
How to use this template
What it helps you decide
The cost plan clarifies the full investment boundary and the evidence behind each package. It distinguishes a working estimate from an approved budget and exposes excluded owner costs or poorly defined scope.
How to complete it
- Map Cost packages and Scope boundaries to a nonoverlapping breakdown. Include applicable enabling and owner costs while keeping acquisition and operating items distinctly identified.
- Record Evidence / maturity and Base cost using quantities, quotations or labelled assumptions. Separate Allowance types for scope, uncertainty, escalation and taxes.
- Reconcile Timing, Excluded cost and Budget status to the stated investment boundary. Explain differences between the current estimate, approved baseline and actual spending authority.
Who prepares and reviews it
The cost manager prepares it with designers, procurement, planners and owner-side contributors. A reviewer checks completeness and basis; finance and the authorized sponsor determine funding and budget approval separately from estimate preparation.
A mistake to avoid
Using a broad contingency to conceal known missing scope makes the estimate difficult to challenge and can leave essential packages outside the approved funding discussion.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: a warehouse estimate includes the building works but initially omits the off-site power connection and owner commissioning support. The cost plan assigns those items distinct packages and evidence states. The sponsor reviews the complete investment boundary before deciding whether the proposed funding request is sufficient.
Document contents
- Document control and decision owner
- Evidence, scope and applicability
- Cost structure
- Estimate maturity
- Allowance treatment
- Total reconciliation
- Open points, competent review and decision
Required inputs
- Project / asset identity, assessment date, scope and authorized decision owner
- Verified source documents with exact revision and record locators
- Approved project scope and breakdown structure
- Quantity and rate evidence
- Estimate basis and price date
- Owner costs, contingencies and funding inclusions
Practical tools.
Professional judgment.
Confirm the adopted edition, local amendments, National Annex where relevant, and contract requirements.
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