Services
Project Administration
We have extensive experience managing large and small projects. At your request, we will interface with equipment providers, architects, mechanical engineers, wiring technicians, electricians, carpenters and other professional tradespeople to ensure your project is completed according to your specifications.
Our clients frequently ask us to provide project administration services as a follow-on from requirements analyses, operations workflow planning, personnel organization design and/or conceptual engineering system design. In these cases, we have a comprehensive understanding of the project scope of work.
We also provide project administration services where we have not been involved in the strategic planning and design work leading up to the project. In these cases, we will first work with you to gain a thorough understanding of your project's scope of work.
With a firm understanding of the scope of work, we would begin our project administration effort with a critical review of the scope of work for each service provider involved in the project. We would identify potential gaps in responsibilities that we will help resolve at this early stage.
We would monitor your project from start to finish, ensuring that each subcontractor provides the deliverables they have committed to within the timelines specified in the scope of work. You can think of us as your eyes and ears that are focussed exclusively on your project. We will alert you to any deviations from the scope of work, including design changes, schedule delays, budget overruns and other similar details.
It is our experience that as implementation progresses, all projects are modified from the original scope of work. We will monitor change order proposals from subcontractors and advise you about their potential impact on schedules and budgets.
At your request, we will manage interface control
documentation (ICD) among/between service providers. Despite promises
from equipment and software vendors about standards and protocols that
make interfacing among different systems seamless, our experience is
that integration can often be troublesome. Carefully defining each
vendor's interfacing responsibilities makes it easier to resolve any
integration challenges that may present themselves.
Document coordination and distribution is another role we fulfill as
part of project administration. We will maintain a complete record of
all documents created and distributed in support of your project. In
addition to maintaining this complete set of
documentation, we will distribute documents to those who require them
for review or meeting preparation.
Meetings are often a necessary means of coordinating among
the various subcontractors as well as for communications between you
and the subcontractors. We will act as the single point of contact to
coordinate these project meetings.
It is often difficult to track scheduling interdependencies among
various subcontractors. At your request, we will maintain a master
project schedule that lists deliverables from all subcontractors, and
tracks the dependencies and relationships among them.
In any project, it is important to keep track of action items that have been assigned. We maintain a cumulative action item list that tracks all items, both resolved and unresolved. This provides an audit trail of action items that is often useful as a project progresses.
Ultimately, you will be asked by various subcontractors to
sign-off on accepting their work as completed. We will assist you with
performance evaluations and advise you about the status of a given
subcontractor's fulfillment of their scope of work.
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Services - Overview
Project Administration
