Is there an AP SOR 2026-27?

Yes. Andhra Pradesh's Common Schedule of Rates 2026-27 took effect on 1 June 2026, issued by the Board of Chief Engineers, Government of Andhra Pradesh. This is unusual — most states searched for under a '2026-27' label have no such edition and are still operating on a 2020-2025 base book. Andhra Pradesh genuinely does.

Why can I not find an 'AP PWD Schedule of Rates'?

Because Andhra Pradesh does not publish one. It publishes a single Common Schedule of Rates issued by the Board of Chief Engineers that applies across engineering departments, rather than a separate PWD book. Searches for 'AP PWD SOR' fail for that reason; the document you want is the Common Schedule of Rates, and the question is which Part of it covers your work.

What are the four Parts of the AP Common Schedule of Rates?

Part-I covers Water Resources, Part-II covers Roads & Bridges, Part-III covers Buildings, Water Supply & Electrical, and Part-IV covers Public Health. They are Parts of one edition, not four separate schedules, so the edition year and effective date are common to all of them.

Does the AP SOR Part-III contain rates for earthwork, concrete and RCC?

No. Across the 97 chapters of Part-III there is no chapter for earthwork, concrete, RCC, masonry, plastering or excavation. Part-III prices building materials, water supply and sanitary items, and electrical installations. The rate for a civil item of work is built up through the A.P. Revised Standard Data rather than looked up in Part-III.

What is actually in Part-III of the AP Common Schedule of Rates 2026-27?

3,247 rate items across 97 chapters, in four content groups: building materials such as bricks, steel, timber, glass, tiles and paints (939 items across 21 chapters); water supply and sanitary work items such as pipes, fittings, taps and manholes (486 items across 9 chapters); electrical and services materials (1,286 items across 49 chapters); and electrical installation items (536 items across 43 chapters).

What is the difference between AP SOR and AP SSR?

In practice searchers use them interchangeably for the same document. Andhra Pradesh's own title is Common Schedule of Rates. 'SSR' — Standard Schedule of Rates — is the label used in Maharashtra and Telangana, and queries such as 'ap ssr 2026-27' are looking for the same Common Schedule of Rates 2026-27 described here.

Which units does the AP SOR Part-III price items in?

Overwhelmingly count and area units rather than volume: 1,242 items are priced per number, 639 per each, 629 per square metre and 344 per running metre. Only 22 of the 3,247 items are priced per cubic metre — which is another way of seeing that this Part is not where civil work volumes are rated.

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August 25, 20266 min readThe Arched Editorial Team

AP SOR 2026-27: Andhra Pradesh Has One Common Schedule, Split Into Four Parts

Andhra Pradesh's SOR 2026-27 is real and current — effective 1 June 2026. But it is one Common Schedule for every engineering department, divided into four Parts, and Part-III prices materials rather than civil items of work. Which Part you need, and what is not in it.

Search for ap sor 2026-27 and you will get a mix of results for a document most states do not have. The edition is real: Andhra Pradesh's Common Schedule of Rates 2026-27 took effect on 1 June 2026. That already makes it an outlier — searches for a 2026-27 schedule in most states are looking for something that has not been published.

The difficulty is not finding it. It is that Andhra Pradesh publishes rates in a shape that does not match what the search asks for, in two ways: there is no PWD schedule, and the Part most people land on does not contain the rates they came for.

There is no AP PWD SOR — there is one Common Schedule

The schedule is issued by the Board of Chief Engineers, Government of Andhra Pradesh, and applies across engineering departments rather than belonging to one of them. This is why ap pwd schedule of rates returns nothing useful: the state does not publish a PWD book to find.

That is a different arrangement from most states, and worth holding onto when a tender document cites "the SOR" without qualification. In Andhra Pradesh, the unqualified reference is to the Common Schedule of Rates for the current year — currently 2026-27 — and the specificity you need comes from the Part, not the department.

Four Parts, one edition

Part	Covers
Part-I	Water Resources
Part-II	Roads & Bridges
Part-III	Buildings, Water Supply & Electrical
Part-IV	Public Health

These are Parts of a single edition, not four independent schedules. The edition year and the 1 June 2026 effective date are common to all of them, so there is no situation in which Part-II is on a newer book than Part-III.

As always, the edition named in the tender document governs. If a notice issued in May 2026 cites the previous edition, that is the book, whatever has since taken effect.

What Part-III actually prices — and what it does not

This is the part that surprises people, and it is worth stating plainly because nothing on the search results page tells you.

Part-III of the 2026-27 edition runs to 3,247 rate items across 97 chapters. Across all 97 chapter headings there is no chapter for earthwork, concrete, RCC, masonry, plastering or excavation. Not a thin chapter — no chapter.

What is there, grouped by content:

Content group	Items	Chapters	Examples
Building materials	939	21	Bricks & Building Blocks, Steel Materials, Timber & Roofing Materials, Glass Materials, Wall & Floor Tiles, Paints & Polishes, Plywoods, Laminates & Veneers
Water supply & sanitary items	486	9	G.I. Pipes & Fittings, S.W.G. Pipes & Fittings, Taps & Faucets, Vitreous Chinaware Sanitary Appliances, Man Holes & Inspection Chambers
Electrical & services materials	1,286	49	U.G. Cables, Panel Mounting MCCBs, Pumpsets, Air Conditioners, LED Luminaires Indoor, Local Area Network
Electrical installation items	536	43	Overhead Lines & Line Materials, T.W. Boards, Lifts (new Installation), HVAC Systems (VRV/VRF), Fire Hydrant and Sprinkler System, Earthing

The units confirm the shape. Of the 3,247 items, 1,242 are priced per number, 639 per each, 629 per square metre and 344 per running metre. Twenty-two are priced per cubic metre. A book that rates civil work does not look like that.

So Part-III is a basic-rates and finished-items book: it tells you what a thousand bricks cost, what a 25 mm G.I. pipe costs laid and tested, and what a lift installation costs. It does not tell you the rate for a cubic metre of M25 concrete.

Where the civil rates come from instead

The Common Schedule is derived from the A.P. Revised Standard Data, and that is where the build-up for a civil item of work lives — the quantities of labour, material and machinery that, combined with the basic rates in the schedule, produce a rate for the item. The relationship is the same one Odisha runs between its SOR 2022 and its Analysis of Rates 2006, and the same one CPWD runs between the DSR and its analysis volume.

The practical consequence: if your BOQ line is earthwork or concrete, looking it up in Part-III and finding nothing is the expected result, not a bad download. You are in the wrong instrument.

Which Part your work sits in

A building contract with internal water supply and electrical work is entirely inside Part-III — but only for the materials and the services items. Its civil lines still route through the Standard Data. A road contract sits in Part-II. An irrigation contract sits in Part-I. Public health engineering work sits in Part-IV.

Most estimating errors in Andhra Pradesh come from a mixed-scope contract whose lines belong to two Parts, priced as though they belonged to one.

The searchable Part-III rates

This site holds a transcription of Part-III of the 2026-27 edition as a searchable table with the chapter structure intact, so you can check a rate without opening the PDF: Andhra Pradesh Common Schedule of Rates 2026-27, Part-III — 3,247 items across 97 chapters, with Excel and CSV downloads carrying the source and retrieval date in their headers.

Parts I, II and IV are not transcribed here. For those, go to the official source.

Pricing an Andhra Pradesh tender

Andhra Pradesh is, on paper, one of the easier states to price: a current edition, one issuing authority, and a clean four-Part split. The difficulty is downstream of that. A tender's BOQ arrives in the contractor's line order, not the schedule's, and the work is deciding for each line which Part applies, whether the rate is a lookup or a Standard Data build-up, and what a rate fixed on 1 June 2026 is worth against inputs today.

If you are new to converting a schedule into a priced bill, how a schedule of rates differs from a bill of quantities covers the mechanics. Telangana's schedule is the closest comparison — the two states split a common inheritance and now publish differently — and Karnataka shows a third arrangement again, with district-wise volumes under a single state schedule.

Arched's estimation engine reads the tender, identifies which Part and which instrument each line is priced from, and flags the lines that have no lookup rate before submission — which is most of the civil bill in a state whose schedule is built this way.