Inherited boilerplate
A clause carried from another project that describes a different job. It imposes requirements no one intends to police.
For contractors
Schedule Requirement Specification
Schedule detail and logic affect what a schedule can show. Constraints and duration assumptions affect the calculation. A limitation in one area is assessed for its significance to the question; it does not make the rest of the project record disappear.
Scheduling provisions may address detail, reporting, update content, logic revisions, float and submissions. A contract-administration review examines how those provisions were used day to day, the records generated and the practical effects on project coordination.
Possible assignment considerations
In practice
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Consider project administration
Which information and reporting arrangements relate to the project decisions and contract provisions?
- 02
Set detail and coding requirements
What activity detail and coding can relate reported progress, costs and project-management roles to the available records?
- 03
Consider update provisions
What reporting content and frequency relate to this project and its contract?
- 04
Say who owns float
Address float and its consumption explicitly, along with the process for revising logic, before either becomes contested.
Considerations and limitations
Questions and limitations to consider
Silence on float
Leaving ownership unstated, which defers the argument to the exact moment both parties need it most.
Requirements nobody checks
Scheduling provisions may address detail, reporting, update content, logic revisions, float and submissions. A contract-administration review examines how those provisions were used day to day, the records generated and the practical effects on project coordination.
Schedule Requirement Specification
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Contractor Construction Administration Services
- Prepare Baseline ScheduleCPM schedule development and review in relation to the project facts and contract requirements.
- Prepare Schedule UpdatesPeriodic updates documenting progress, forecast assumptions and material revisions.
- Construction Progress MonitoringAssessment of reported progress, project information and relevant forecasts.
- Delay Analysis & Project Progress MonitoringAnalyzing delay events, their supported time effects and the contract administration record.
- Prepare Time Impact Analysis (TIA)Modeling identified events in a selected schedule, with the time perspective, assumptions and limits explained.
- Prepare Extension of Time RequestsTechnical support for time requests using available schedules and project information.
- Change Order RequestsPricing and substantiating changes, including their effect on time.
- Requests for Equitable AdjustmentA documented claim for the cost and time consequences of a change in the work.
- Estimating AssistanceTechnical estimating and cost analysis for bids, changes and claims.