
We manage the road contract
Prepare the claim with the work behind it.
Review measured quantities, material records and equipment use before submitting the month's work for payment.
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Your crews have built the section. When quantities are questioned, the detail behind the work matters to the payment you receive.
Darikoda brings measurements, materials and equipment records together by project, so you can prepare the claim and investigate the costs. Captured at source.

We manage the road contract
Review measured quantities, material records and equipment use before submitting the month's work for payment.
For road contractors →
We deliver a section or work package
Keep your own record of completed work and check material, fuel or equipment deductions against it.
For civils subcontractors →From the road section to the payment claim
Record measured work against the project item and road location, known as chainage. Add supporting photos while the section is still visible.
Review the quantities before preparing the payment certificate. Material deliveries, fuel use and machine hours help your team check what the job is costing as it progresses.
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Keep the work on site connected to the claim for payment.
Book a free 30-minute review of your measurements and supporting records. Get a one-page summary of what to address first.
No. MS Project, Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject are programme management tools: what's planned, what's the critical path, what's the float. Darikoda is what actually happened on site, attributed, at chainage level. The two integrate. Your planner keeps Primavera. Your operations team gets Darikoda.
Full comparison: Darikoda vs ERP, trackers and spreadsheetsYes. GPS tracker output (location, basic utilisation) feeds into the operating record where it adds value. The trackers do their job. Darikoda is the layer that ties machine hours to billable sections, fuel events to cost-per-chainage, downtime to IPC defence. Integration is additive, not exclusive.
How fleet records workJoint measurement is the moment the contractor's record meets the consultant's. Darikoda is the contractor's record: chainage-level quantity, time-stamped, attributed, with photo evidence. When the consultant disputes a quantity, you have the structured field record to defend it. When you agree, it flows into the IPC submission without re-keying.
Cert preparation speed is the first thing Darikoda compresses. Structured field evidence (chainage quantities, materials consumed, plant hours, manpower attendance) feeds directly into the IPC submission format GHA expects. Cert prep moves from ten people for a month to two people for a week. The cash cycle moves with it.
That's the norm on Big Push projects. Darikoda handles subcontractor coordination at the operating-record level: independent measurement of each sub's work, fuel and material attribution where you supply them, and a defendable trail when the deduction is challenged. Each sub sees their own slice. The main contractor sees the aggregate. Same source.
Wet-weather days cost twice: once in productivity, again in the EOT submission that has to be defended. Darikoda captures the daily site condition (rain, ground condition, sub-base saturation, access constraints) as part of the structured field record. When the EOT submission goes to the consultant, the evidence is already there.
The threshold is contract structure, not project value. On a FIDIC red book contract with joint measurement and IPC discipline, the maths usually works from the first cert cycle: protecting one disputed quantity per month often covers the pilot fee. On lump-sum projects with weaker measurement discipline, the threshold shifts upward.
That's exactly what the operational record is built to do. Every action is time-stamped, attributed to a person and a role, and immutable. No silent edits to history. The record that supports your IPC submission is the same record that supports your audit defence. Same source, same evidence chain.
What the operating record holdsThat model has a dedicated page. The internal cross-hire dynamic is operationally and commercially distinct enough that we built a separate buyer brief for it. Deduction game, working / faulty / not needed pattern, leverage nuance: see the Plant Hire & Fleet Owners page.
Fixed-fee Build & Activation phase (configures the operating record to your contract structure), then ongoing subscription once the pilot proves value. The Operational Audit produces the specific number for your portfolio. Book it through the audit page above.
Managing machines across several contracts? See the guide for contractors with their own fleet.
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Patterns described here are drawn from extensive field audits and industry research across Ghana's mining, construction, roadworks, and quarry sectors. No specific operator is named or identifiable.