A schedule-health check ships one. An owner-submission EOT package ships six or seven, indexed and cross-referenced. Each one is keyed to a published recommended practice — DCMA 14-Point, AACE 29R-03, AACE 52R-06, AACE 122R-22, SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol 2nd Ed.
Self-contained DCMA 14-Point assessment of a baseline-vs-current XER pair. One file, no dependencies, opens in any browser — drop it on a network share and your PMO sees the same dashboard you do.
What's inside
- Executive summary with overall grade and the three to five findings most likely to surface in cross-examination
- 14-criterion drill-downs — logic, lags, hard constraints, BEI, missed tasks, float distribution, critical-path reasonableness, each with pass/fail rationale
- Baseline vs current variance — activity-level slip, added/removed activities, retroactive baseline edits
- Slip register ranked by impact to project finish
- BEI / CPLI / SPI metrics with industry benchmarks and contextual reading
- GAO-16-89G + CPP Quality Overlay grade with embedded reproducibility manifest
Methodology: DCMA 14-Point Assessment · AACE RP 29R-03 · GAO-16-89G Schedule Assessment Guide
Windows analysis (AACE MIP 3.3 — Observational / Dynamic / Contemporaneous As-Is) across the full update chain. The HTML dashboard is the analyst's working document; the DOCX narrative is the owner-deliverable executive read.
What's inside
- Per-window cause attribution with critical-path-impact gate and per-party day buckets that sum to project drift
- Concurrent delay matrix — per window × per party — with WOET 4-state day classifier
- Notice-gate review per SCL Protocol §3 (paired with evidence ledger when claim-workbench is run alongside)
- Baseline stability check flagging retroactive edits, added/removed activities, completion reversals
- Dual-method validation against collapsed-as-built result with documented gap reconciliation
- Per-window CSVs for downstream pivot work, expert workpapers, and exhibit preparation
Methodology: AACE RP 29R-03 §3.3 Observational/Dynamic/Contemporaneous As-Is · SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol 2nd Ed §11.5
But-for analysis (AACE MIP 3.8 — Modeled / Subtractive / Single Simulation). Independent recomputation of project drift via subtractive removal of delay activities from the as-built schedule. The validation step opposing counsel demands.
What's inside
- As-built finish vs but-for finish per delay event, with cumulative roll-up across the event population
- Per-event float erosion showing which removals matter to project finish and which are absorbed
- Subtractive simulation log recording every activity edit so the calculation is reproducible
- Dual-method gap report against the windows-analysis result — flags any divergence that needs analyst reconciliation before submission
- Methodology disclosure identifying what the technique can and cannot conclude
Methodology: AACE RP 29R-03 §3.8 Modeled/Subtractive/Single Simulation · SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol 2nd Ed §11.5
Prospective TIA with fragnet insertion against a contemporaneous baseline. The forward-looking method when a delay event has occurred but its impact on remaining work is the question.
What's inside
- Fragnet insertion for each delay event — added activities, logic ties, calendar assignments, constraint treatment
- Modeled / additive / multiple-base CPM forward-pass with pre- and post-impact finish dates
- Per-event impact quantification in working days, with float-erosion accounting
- Cumulative impact tracking when multiple events are modeled in sequence
- Owner-vs-contractor delay attribution with concurrent-delay handling per SCL Protocol
- DOCX narrative formatted for inclusion as a TIA exhibit in an EOT submission
Methodology: AACE RP 52R-06 Time Impact Analysis · AACE RP 29R-03 §3.7 Modeled/Additive/Multiple Base
Probabilistic finish-date forecast with sensitivity analysis. Suitable for executive briefings, owner risk reviews, or as the quantitative spine of a contractor's schedule-acceleration case.
What's inside
- P10 / P50 / P80 / P90 completion-date forecasts using linear-interpolation percentiles per AACE convention
- Sensitivity tornado identifying the activities whose duration uncertainty drives finish-date variance
- Scenario comparison — baseline risk profile vs mitigated profile, with side-by-side finish-date distributions
- Convergence diagnostics confirming iteration count is sufficient for the reported percentile precision
- QRAMM maturity badge per AACE 122R-22, naming the maturity tier the inputs support
- DOCX narrative with input assumptions, methodology disclosure, and what the simulation does not establish
Methodology: AACE RP 122R-22 QRAMM-aligned · linear-interpolation percentiles
The full owner-submission-ready Extension of Time package. Cover letter, per-event exhibits, forensic workbook, mitigation report, supporting-documents index, and an internal QC pass — assembled as one indexed bundle.
What's inside
- DOCX cover letter framed for owner submission, naming the contract clauses and notice provisions invoked
- Per-event exhibits — one DOCX per delay event with cause, attribution, contemporaneous notice, impact quantification
- Forensic workbook (XLSX) — per-window math, per-event roll-up, attribution buckets, formulas left visible for owner-side review
- Mitigation report documenting steps taken to reduce or absorb impact, per SCL Protocol mitigation duty
- Supporting documents index cross-referencing every cited RFI, change order, daily report, and correspondence item
- Owner-submission QC markdown — internal pre-flight check for completeness, citation accuracy, exhibit cross-references
Methodology: SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol 2nd Ed §3 notice-gate · AACE RP 67R-11 entitlement framework
Defensive equivalent of the EOT package. Tests the opposing party's claim against ten defense theories, then assembles the rebuttal letter, defense workbook, and dashboard for response.
What's inside
- DOCX rebuttal letter structured to match the opposing party's submission, theory by theory
- XLSX defense workbook with per-event findings and the math behind each defense theory
- HTML rebuttal dashboard for internal counsel review and deposition prep workpapers
- Ten defense theories tested: no critical-path impact, concurrent delay, pacing, no notice, failure to mitigate, causation gap, float ownership, scope-change disguise, self-caused acceleration, LD cap
- Per-theory evidence pull citing the contemporaneous record items each theory rests on
Methodology: SCL Delay & Disruption Protocol 2nd Ed · Wickwire and Pickavance treatise framing
Evidence-triage layer underneath the forensic report. Takes one folder of mixed correspondence (MSG / PDF / DOCX / XLSX) plus the full XER update chain and produces a unified analysis the analyst works from.
What's inside
- Evidence ledger CSV — every correspondence item parsed, dated, sender-classified by analyst-supplied domain mapping
- Schedule chain-diff CSV across the full update chain — TASKPRED add/remove, constraint flips, retroactive baseline edits, completion reversals
- Rolling baseline — every activity carries the baseline date it had when it first appeared in the chain
- Trust score JSON flagging statistical patterns (zero-duration-variance schedules, no-new-activities, every-activity-hits-baseline) — correlation, not causation
- Slip-to-evidence cross-reference with NER-extracted recurring actors flagged for analyst follow-up review
- HTML dashboard stitching all of the above into one navigable working surface
Methodology: Forensic-correctness audit framework · disclosure boilerplate inline · CORRELATION not CAUSATION