Does Project Control Start at Contract Award?

摘要

Over the past several years, my colleagues and I have become increasingly concerned with the perspective that many owner companies appear to have adopted regarding what project control is and what role it plays. Many seem to think that an owner's project control is tracking of hired contractors, service costs and their scheduled performance. This posture also indicates that project control starts at the point of awarding engineering, procurement and construction contracts. This approach is seriously flawed. Project control starts well before the execution phase of a project. Project control representatives support the development of scope development/changes, a competitive cost estimate and realistic schedule, etc. These factors ate an integral part of the project basis and create an important foundation for subsequent project control baseline information. This paper will explore these aspects and try to better define the owner's and contractor's role in project control from both the avoidance as well as the "mitigation" aspects of this important function.