The purpose of this paper was to discuss the design of a prototype project management quality costing IS.
A review of the quality costing and the quality costing systems that have been developed was presented and
discussed. The development process of PROMQACS included the problem identification, design of the
information architecture and the testing of the systemto determine the type of information needed so that it
could be implemented in practice. While PROMQACS can be used to determine quality costs, the
lack of information made available by organisations during the testing phase meant that the research
focused on rework (often considered as a quality failure). The information architecture was considered
to effective by participating organisations for determining and managing quality costs in projects. In fact,
the testing of the system has enabled a series of benchmark metrics to be developed. A challenge
facing PROMQACS is its development into an effective software program that all organisations involved
with a project can use. With some minor modifications,we suggest that PROMQACS could also be used
to monitor quality costs in software projects.