P6 Baseline Development

A P6 baseline built to your contract and the way the job will be built

An independent Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project baseline, built to your contract and the owner's spec, with float and critical path defensible from the first update. Hospitals, high-rise, multifamily, federal, sports and civil work. Methodology per AACE RP 91R-16.

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Flat fee. Quote within one business day. Revisions through owner approval at no extra charge if scope doesn't change.

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PSP certified Primavera P6 & MS Project AACE RP 91R-16 DCMA 14-point clean Built to your schedule spec Cost & resource loaded Flat fee, revisions within scope

Why the baseline matters

Get the baseline right, or spend the next year fighting it

The baseline is the contract clock. Every milestone, delay day and extension gets measured against it. Build it loose and the owner rejects it. Build it without protecting your logic and the float you priced belongs to whoever controls the schedule.

01Extensions and delay claims start from the baseline logic, so it has to be right before the first deadline locks in

02Built to your bid logic, total float shows honestly, and the contract decides who owns it

03A weak baseline can be rejected on the spec alone, and every week in review is a week of your schedule gone

What is included

A complete, owner-ready P6 baseline. Not a bar chart

What the spec asks for, plus what you need to defend your time later.

WBS & Activity Coding Structure

WBS and codes that match your contract and pay application, sortable by area, phase, trade and responsibility.

Driving Logic Network

Finish-to-start logic built to how the job gets built. No open ends, minimal and justified leads and lags.

Durations & Calendars Time

Resource-backed durations on project, trade and weather calendars.

Total Float & Critical Path Protection

A traceable critical path and float profile, so later compression or absorbed float shows against the baseline.

Cost & Resource Loading Loading

Tied to your schedule of values or CLINs for cash flow and payment review, plus earned value (SPI, CPI, EAC) once actual cost data comes in.

Schedule Basis & Narrative Record

A basis memo for the assumptions, calendars, constraints and sequencing. The first thing that protects you in a dispute.

How we build it

Built the way a forensic analyst would want to defend it

We spent years taking other people's baselines apart in delay disputes. Yours is built to survive that.

Read the contract and the spec first

Milestones, phasing, liquidated damages and the schedule spec drive the build. We read the spec before we open P6.

Lay out the WBS and coding

Mirrors the contract and pay application, so it's sortable, auditable and easy to accept.

Build the logic to how it gets built

No open ends, minimal and justified leads and lags, hard constraints under control.

Load durations, calendars, and cost

Resource-backed durations, the right calendars, and cost or resource loading to the schedule of values or CLINs where the contract calls for it.

Validate and tighten

DCMA 14-point checks run and the problems a reviewer would flag cleared before it goes out.

Deliver and defend

Native file (P6 .xer and .xml, or Microsoft Project .mpp), review PDF, basis memo, and a NAS compliant export with a clean SDEF where the spec requires it. We stand behind it through the owner's review.

Owner & federal compliant

A baseline that passes the owner's spec, not just yours

On VA, USACE and NAVFAC work, we build to the scheduling section in your contract, including cost loading, native files and SDEF export for RMS where required, with DCMA 14-point checks before submission. If your contract names a spec, we build to it.

Built to your scheduling section, cost-loaded to CLINs, SDEF export to RMS where required

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Baseline FAQ

Baseline questions

How long does a P6 baseline take, and what does it cost?

Send the contract, drawings and scope for a flat-fee quote within one business day. Most small to mid project baselines take a couple of weeks, depending on size and the state of the information. You get a firm delivery date up front, and the fee doesn't move once scope is set.

Will it pass the owner's schedule spec and get accepted on submission?

We read the spec first, build to it, and clear the DCMA 14-point issues a reviewer flags before submission. If the owner comments, we turn revisions fast.

Can you build a NAS compliant, cost-loaded baseline and export SDEF for RMS?

Yes. We build to the scheduling section in your contract, cost load to the CLINs or schedule of values, balance the loading, and export a clean SDEF for RMS where the contract requires it.

We ran a pull plan on sticky notes. Can you turn that into a real CPM baseline?

Yes, and it's a good start. We turn the pull plan or milestone targets into a logic-driven P6 schedule and show where it agrees with the real critical path and where it doesn't. You keep the buy-in.

Do you do revisions if the owner rejects it?

Yes. Revisions within scope are included through owner approval at no extra charge.

How does the baseline actually protect us later?

It's the measuring stick. A prospective TIA runs on the update just before a change or delay, which traces back to the approved baseline and its logic, so your extension rests on the record, not a stack of emails. A weak baseline gives that ground away. Methodology follows AACE RP 91R-16 for the build and RP 52R-06 for time impact.

Starting a job? Get the baseline right before the first deadline locks in

Send your contract and drawings. We quote a flat fee within one business day.

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