1. Preliminaries Where there is a bill of quantities, the evaluation of the Prelim- inaries will usually be less difficult than where there is not. In the latter case, it will be necessary, before the date of the first valu- ation, to make an apportionment of the contract sum to each of its principal constituents. The Preliminaries constituent will then need to be broken down into separate amounts such as would nor- mally be seen in the Preliminaries section of a bill of quantities. This process will be very much easier and the results will be more satisfactory, if there is a Contract Sum Analysis (see p. 105) which shows the total of Preliminaries included in the tender. The con- tractor will be able to produce the build-up of the tender and the individual amounts allowed in it for the main Preliminaries items. ‘These amounts will then be available for valuation purposes — and later, for the adjustment of Preliminaries, if necessary, in the final account — just as if there had been a bill of quantities. Even where there is a bill, the situation may still present diffi- culties. The contractor may have put amounts against all, some, one or none of the priceable items in the Preliminaries section, having included the balance of their value, if any, in other parts of the bill. The surveyor can only take account, of course, of those items which have been priced, even though they may represent only part of the total cost of the Preliminaries.