Federal CPM scheduling, including the independent consultant VA requires
Independent P6 scheduling for VA, USACE, NAVFAC, AFCEC and GSA work. The NAS-compliant baseline cost loaded to your CLINs, monthly updates and narratives tied to your progress payments, and fragnets and time impact analysis when the government changes the work.
On major VA projects, an independent CPM consultant is in the spec
Most of our VA work is hospitals. The construction looks like any healthcare job, but on major VA projects (VA 01 32 16.13) the spec requires an independent CPM consultant, approved by the Contracting Officer before Notice to Proceed, and the schedule ties straight to your progress payments. We fill that role inside the window after award.
Submit a noncompliant schedule and the government can hold your money
If the baseline or an update misses the spec, the Contracting Officer can withhold progress payments until it is fixed and accepted.
Primes, JVs and subs on federal work
8(a), SDVOSB, HUBZone and WOSB primes
You won the set-aside. We check your contract's scheduling requirements and provide the baseline, loading and reporting it calls for. We are that consultant, pre-NTP through closeout.
Established federal contractors
You know the spec. You need it met on time, a clean SDEF where the contract calls for one, and someone who can defend the baseline to the Contracting Officer's scheduler.
Mentor-protégé and JV teams
One schedule, two companies, one submittal. We build the integrated baseline and keep both partners' scopes and cost loading straight.
Design-build primes
Design submittals, government reviews, long-lead procurement and construction in one network. Federal design-build delay usually starts in design, so we schedule it as carefully as the field.
Subs on a federal job
Under the flow-down, the prime's schedule is your schedule. We review it for your scope, protect your durations and float, and build the fragnet when your work changes. See subcontractor scheduling.
Contractors with an REA or claim
Government-caused delay, differing site conditions, suspension of work. We build the fragnet and TIA under the spec's procedure and the REA package under the contract's changes and related clauses. See federal fragnets and TIAs.
The agencies we build schedules under
Each agency has its own spec and reporting system. We build to yours, from a small design-bid-build job to a complex cost-loaded program.
USACE UFGS 01 32
Army Corps work to UFGS 01 32 01.00 10 on standard and complex jobs, UFGS 01 32 16.00 20 on small ones, governed by ER 1-1-11. CLIN cost loaded, with SDEF export to RMS where the contract requires it.
VA NAS
VA 01 32 16.xx, the Network Analysis Schedule. Major projects (01 32 16.13) need an independent CPM consultant approved before NTP. Small projects allow qualified in-house scheduling. Mostly hospitals and medical centers.
NAVFAC UFGS 01 32 17
Naval Facilities work to UFGS 01 32 17.00 20, with P6 schedules, cost loading and reporting built to the NAVFAC section in your contract.
AFCEC Air Force
Air Force Civil Engineer Center facilities under the same UFGS 01 32 family, with RMS-style cost-loaded reporting and the same baseline health expected.
GSA PBS
General Services Administration buildings and courthouses, with P6 CPM schedules built to Public Buildings Service requirements.
Your spec starts a clock at award
Federal specs set submittal deadlines in calendar days from award or NTP, and most tie progress payments to an accepted schedule. Miss them and the money waits.
CPM consultant approval (VA)
The Contracting Officer must approve the independent CPM consultant before NTP. We submit the qualification package the week of award so the CO has it early.
Preliminary or interim schedule
Due within weeks of NTP on most specs, covering the first 60 to 90 days plus procurement and submittals. The government pays the first invoice against it, so it must be a real network, coded and cost loaded.
Initial project schedule and the schedule conference
The full baseline cost loaded to the CLINs, with narrative, submittal register in the network, weather days per the spec, and a DCMA 14-point run before it goes out. We present it at the schedule conference and work the comments to acceptance.
Monthly updates tied to the pay request
Data date matching the pay period, progress from the QC daily reports, narrative in the spec's format, SDEF to RMS where required. Schedule and pay request agree every month, which removes the usual reason for withholding.
Where federal schedules cost you money
The government's scheduler reads the spec like a lawyer reads a contract. These items get a schedule rejected, a payment withheld or a time extension denied.
What we deliver on a federal job
Recent federal work
A sample, not a full list. Names withheld, references available on request.
VA medical center, Virginia
Independent CPM consultant role, NAS compliant baseline and monthly updates under the federal spec.
Harbor pump station and dissolved oxygen system, Savannah, GA
Lead scheduler on a large USACE environmental mitigation project. NAS compliant baseline with CLIN cost loading and balancing, exported as a clean SDEF to RMS.
Federal articles to read before your next award
VA independent CPM consultant
What the VA NAS spec requires, how the consultant gets approved, and the first 60 days on a VA medical center job.
Federal schedule specs, RMS
UFGS 01 32 01 and 01 32 17 line by line: cost loading, SDEF export, RMS reporting and the submittal sequence the Corps and Navy expect.
Federal fragnets, TIAs and time extensions
How to request time under a federal spec: the notice, the fragnet, the time impact analysis and the REA package.
More federal, delay and scheduling articles on the Articles page →
Questions we get on federal work
Federal mission-critical, laboratory, data center and power EPC work: see data center and power EPC scheduling.
Have a federal award or a solicitation on the table?
Send the spec section or your draft baseline. On a 20 minute call we'll go through the scheduling section with you and lay out what compliance from NTP takes and costs.