Industry Verticals · Construction & Infrastructure

APU & AIU — Pricing the Project Before You Lose It

Build defensible Análisis de Precios Unitarios for a Chocó civil-works tender, set the AIU stack on top, and decide a final bid that wins the tender without becoming the next bankruptcy. Players play as Constructora Andina del Cauca, a 14-year-old contractor going outside its home region for the first time.

4 rounds Executive English, Español

Preview

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Diagnose the inherited file.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Payroll multiplier still at 1.42 (2022 file)
  • Productivity rates copied from Cauca, not adjusted for Chocó humidity
  • No regional cost factor on materials (Buenaventura / Atrato logistics)
  • Supplier price list dated October 2025 — steel +9%, cement +6% YoY
  • Equipment hourly rate from a Cauca quarry — mobilisation factor missing
  • Payroll burden multiplier (× base wage)
  • Excavation productivity (m³/day)
  • Regional materials factor (× Bogotá baseline)
  • Administración (A) %
  • Imprevistos (I) %

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Estimating Quality Score by Round

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Construction & Infrastructure.

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