Bid schedule (Tech. Submission)

TriPoint PDP can develop your detailed bid schedule showing delivery of the project within the dates outlined in the RFQ document table of key contractual dates.

Baseline Schedule

fter the effective date the baseline schedule will need to be developed and submitted for review within the permitted time frame, e.g. 30 calendar days.  Once approved this will be the Baseline Schedule that all progress and change is measured against. 

Re-baseline

The baseline schedule will only be revised when cumulative changes or delays to the scope of work are of an order of magnitude that renders comparison to the current baseline schedule ineffective. This would be mutually agreed by the Contractor and the Owner.

TriPoint PDP provides a comprehensive schedule review service.

Upon receipt of the monthly update from the contractor a detailed analysis will be conducted.  Discipline specific extracts will be pulled from the P6 schedule, filtering out activities specific to the team reviewer e.g. construction by area, design by discipline, management summary. 

Also, 1month/2month/3month look ahead schedules can be filtered out for review by the project team.  Once the extracts are issued to the team to review the in-depth review process will continue.

Comparisons will be made against the approved baseline and against the previously accepted update, with emphasis on:

• Critical path summary.  Changes to the critical path (content, durations, logic);

• Changes to key design, procurement and construction milestones:

• Activities delayed in the period, float Erosion by delay of non-critical activities - The cumulative effect of continual delays to a significant number of non-critical activities month over month will decrease float and increase schedule risk, e.g.

  • increased resource peaks;

  • surpassing construction area resource thresholds;

  • increased traffic on site;

  • additional plant required to service additional resources adding to congestion;

  • overlap of disciplines and contractors (resource saturation point);

  • demand on crane time;

  • access issues; and,

  • increased safety risks.

This metric also provides an indication of schedule compression.

• Float density analysis.  Shows the number of activities drifting into the different float bands.  This is an indication of overall schedule health.  The more activities drifting into lower float bands, the more risk is added to the overall schedule.

• Analysis includes review of constraints, changes to calendars, changes to activity names, changes to logic (FS to SS/FF etc. to absorb delays in the period impacting schedule integrity).

TriPoint PDP has developed processes to identify and track changes and manipulations to schedule logic, duration's, calendars etc. on a monthly basis.  These changes can be made over a period of time and used to bias the schedule in the contractor’s favour in the event of a delay and claim for extension to time and associated costs.  Concerns and comments would be captured in a comment log, issued to the contractor based on monthly progress update submissions, which could be called upon in the event of a claim.

Traceability is important, we need the ability to describe and follow the life of a requirement in both a forwards and backwards direction i.e., from its origins, through its development, implementation and commissioning.  This is demonstrated in the contractors baseline schedule, reviewed and approved by the Owner. The basis of any claims would be demonstrated using this schedule.

In the event of delay claims we can:

• Conduct Time Impact Analysis (TIA), which is a technique that predicts how a delay will affect a project's completion date, used to analyze the impact of a delay on a project's critical path.

• Demonstrate clearly against a well-defined and detailed schedule the reason for delays, supported by the schedule narrative and comment log (updated monthly).  This would be further supported by look ahead review and project update minutes of meetings.

• Effectively substantiate any claim for extension and associated costs.

• In the case of delays caused by the Owner we can investigate concurrent delays.

• Preemptively assess actual progress against planned progress and identify trends early, making delay mitigation easier.

Providing a comprehensive means of reporting project confidence levels, Schedule Risk Analysis software uses Monte Carlo simulation to analyze, then provides a variety of reports, that enables identification of risk drivers before implementing the resulting risk-adjusted schedules.

TriPoint PDP can evaluate schedule maturity and risk readiness with a comprehensive review to identify scheduling problems that can affect deterministic schedules. 

We review, analyze and report on progress, risk and change management.  Including support developing the Project Controls requirements in the Project Agreement, ensuring there is a contractual obligation for the contractor to report in a manner that facilitates the Owner’s internal reporting process, and:

• that good working practices are adopted;

• that reports are accurate and timely;

• there is an effective mechanism to represent progress achieved against planned;

• that there is auditability and traceability creating an historic account of change, through monthly/weekly reports, to assess how we got from where we were to where we are currently, taking account of delays, scope changes, construction re-sequencing etc.

Ensuring that quality and integrity are maintained, facilitating the analysis of key metrics (float density, delays to non-critical actives etc.), we can review and comment on or question changes to logic and overall schedule content from Prime Contractors to sub-trades.