GAEB import in Levora
The tender’s bill of quantities becomes an item list you can actually work on.
To the featureFree tool
Open a GAEB file – without an upload
Look at the bill of quantities, read the items as a table, take them away as CSV. The file is read in your browser and does not leave your machine.
Open a file
Your bill of quantities
GAEB DA XML from any exchange phase – the file stays where it is.
The file stays on your machine. It is read in the browser – there is no upload, no server and no caching.
or drag it here – .x81, .x83, .x84, .x86, .x31
| OZ | Short text | Quantity | Unit |
|---|
The long text of an item is in the row's tooltip and in the CSV column “Langtext”.
This file cannot be read as XML. GAEB files in the old text format (D81, D83) do not belong here – this tool reads GAEB DA XML only.
This is not a GAEB DA XML file: the root element is not <GAEB>.
The file is readable but contains no items. That can happen with pure message or amendment files.
The file could not be read.
The file is larger than 12 MB. A bill of quantities is rarely that big – check whether this is the right file.
no project nameOZ
Short text
Quantity
Unit
Long text
bill-of-quantities
Without JavaScript this tool can read nothing – JavaScript is precisely what evaluates the file on your machine instead of sending it away.
No upload, no server, no storage. You can open your browser's network panel and watch.
Why there is no upload
A bill of quantities is not a file like any other. It holds items, quantities and often the basis of a quotation’s costing – for a competitor it is the most interesting file your firm owns. The usual free GAEB viewers upload it to a server, show it to you there, and promise to delete it afterwards.
This tool has no server. The browser reads the file from your disk, evaluates it in memory and displays the result. If you do not want to believe that – and you should believe nobody who merely asserts it – open your browser’s network panel and load the file again. Not one request goes out.
What is read
| Exchange phase | Content | supported |
|---|---|---|
| X81 | Bill of quantities for submitting a bid | yes |
| X83 | Invitation to tender | yes |
| X84 | Bidder’s quotation | yes |
| X86 | Award of contract | yes |
| X31 | Quantity determination / take-off | yes |
| D81, D83 (text format) | old GAEB 90 | no |
Tested against the BVBS test file 3.3, a 3.2 file and two real tenders in the older 2004/07 namespace. What is displayed: item number (OZ), short text, quantity and unit; the long text sits in the row’s tooltip and in the CSV.
Prices are not displayed. An X81 does not contain any, and in an X84 they belong to nobody but the bidder – the viewer does not even read them out.
If nothing is displayed
Two cases occur in practice. First: a file in the old GAEB 90 text format (D81, D83). In an editor it looks like a sequence of number blocks and is not XML – this tool does not read it. Second: a message or amendment file which is valid but contains no items at all. Then the tool says exactly that instead of showing an empty table.
And then?
Looking is the easy part. The work comes afterwards: pricing the items, setting the quantities from the take-off against them, and finally issuing an invoice that matches the tender. That is precisely what Levora is built for – the viewer here is a slice of it, free and without conditions.
Next
Once the file is open
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The take-off formulas – with the calculation visible.
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The check digits, before the invoice comes back.
To the toolLet us go through your own bill of quantities
Bring a GAEB file. See the route from import to finished invoice on your own data.