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SIN 871-6; Acquisition and Life Cycle Management
Construction Management Services
Construction Management Services is a professional services discipline applied to the planning, design, and construction process of capital improvement projects. As provider of professional services to customer agencies, the Construction Manager organizes the effort, develops the management plan, monitors the participants’ progress against the plan and identifies action to be taken in the event of deviance from the plan, and identifies actions to be taken in the event of deviance from the plan. The Construction Manager can be a firm, a team of firms, or an individual. Construction Managers apply and integrate comprehensive project controls to manage the critical issues of time, cost scope, and quality.
Customer agencies shall utilize construction managers as its principal agent to advise on or manage the process over the project regardless of the project delivery method used. The Construction Manager assumes the position of professional adviser or extension of staff to the customer agency. The Construction Manager frequently helps the customer agency identify which delivery method is the best for the project. The construction management approach utilizes a firm (or team of firms) with construction, design and management expertise to temporarily expand the customer agency’s capabilities so that the customer agency can successfully accomplish its program or project. The Construction Manager also provides expert advice in support of the customer agency’s decisions in the implementation of the project.
The following are some of the tasks to be covered under Construction Management services:
- Recommend most effective use of funds
- Continuous schedule enforcement
- Ensure design complies with budget
- Match construction spending to funds availability
- Enhance control of the scope of work
- Optimal project/program scheduling options
- Best use of individual project team members’ expertise
- Maximum avoidance of delays, changes and claims
- Optimal flexibility in contracting/procurement options
- Application and integration of comprehensive project controls
- Design quality assurance throughout the design process
- Consideration of material, systems and process alternatives
- Code compliance review
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