Raymond Van TonderManaging Director| Engagement Consulting Services PTY(LTD)Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
When considering Clause 31 describing an "Accepted Program" the assumption would be that the program becomes the Schedule Baseline used to measure progress against. The issue is that Clause 32 provides a platform for the Contractor to submit a "New" Program for acceptance and if accepted by the Project Manager becomes the new "Accepted Program". If NEC accepts that the Contract or "First Program" is inaccurate, how do we deal with schedule slippages and keep the Contractor accountable? Although we have included all Contractual Milestones in the program the Revised Completion Date do not align with the Contract Dates, what is my baseline if a "new program" is accepted monthly, surely this should be a forecasted completion based on actual progress. In a planning environment, will we have a new baseline every month ? Your comments will be valued ! Saving Changes...
I'm not familiar with NEC, but it sounds like a normal change control process whereby you have an original baseline but if a change request is accepted then a new baseline would become the basis for performance tracking and reporting. In this case, the PM appears to have the decision making authority on accepting or rejecting changes, so that should reduce the likelihood of unnecessary changes impacting timelines or funding.
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Raymond, I do agree with Kiron’s point of view and I am not familiar with NEC as well. However, having a program schedule revised on monthly basis is very unusual unless you have an environment of very high uncertainty just like we had during COVID in 2020-2021. Saving Changes...
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