CompareCivil estimating & cost control

InCore vs RIB Candy

CCS Candy is the India-relevant incumbent for civil estimating, rate build-up and cost-value reconciliation — deep and respected, but desktop-heritage and single-purpose. It's an estimating tool, not a live field-to-cash platform.

Where Candy is strong
  • Best-in-class civil estimating and resource-based rate build-up
  • Deep cost-value reconciliation heritage trusted by large EPCs
  • Purpose-built pricing depth for BOQ tenders
Head to head

Capability by capability

Where each platform stands on the capabilities that decide an Indian heavy-civil project. InCore's marks reflect what is shipped in the product today.

CapabilityInCoreCandy
Bid-estimating workbench + rate build-up
InCore ships an estimating workbench (BOQ builder, resource rate build-up, versioned rate library, star-item analysis); Candy's CVR heritage runs deeper
Item-rate BOQ contract
Measurement Book (MB)
RA/IPC bill + deduction stack
GST e-invoice (IRN) / e-way bill
Offline-first field capture (DPR)
Plant / equipment ops + fuel
Procurement → GRN → 3-way match
Stores + consumption-vs-BOQ
Modern web + offline mobile, multi-tenant
Candy is desktop-heritage
NativePartialAbsent
When InCore wins

Candy is a dated desktop estimating tool. InCore now ships a bid-estimating workbench of its own — and gives you the live field → MB → RA → stores → plant chain Candy never touches, in one modern, offline, multi-tenant platform.

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Straight talk: deep bid-estimating is Candy's moat and its cost-value-reconciliation heritage runs deeper. InCore now ships its own estimating workbench (BOQ builder, resource rate build-up, versioned rate library, star/non-schedule item analysis, bid strategy, one-click estimate→contract) — plus everything downstream of the award that Candy doesn't do at all.

A clean switch

Moving from Candy to InCore

A staged, de-risked path — keep what works while the BOQ spine comes online.

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Keep Candy for heavy pre-award estimating during the transition.
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Import the awarded BOQ into InCore contracts to start the execution spine.
3
Run execution → measurement → billing → cost and plant on InCore from day one.

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