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Marine Projects
Project Management Consulting Services
Enterprise Process
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TDG Capabilities Project Audit – Marine Projects
(Locks and Dams) Founded in 1988, The Dayton Group (TDG), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), is a consortium of entrepreneurial principals and associates who are experienced program/project and technical managers with leadership backgrounds in both government and industry. TDG principals and most associates have education at the Master's Degree level or above and extensive experience in specific disciplines supporting TDG efforts. TDG supports is customers in their efforts to achieve organizational success through effective project management by offering consulting and training services. Project Audit is the expert independent review of project planning, execution and control activities against the internationally accepted standards and best practices of project management. TDG principals are certified as Project Management Professionals (PMP) by the Project Management Institute, which is the source of the standards. TDG calls upon selected associates to bring specialized expertise to bear in addressing specific types of projects. A project audit will typically review the process by which project objectives and tasks have been correlated to requirements, the process of determining project scope and assuring that a baseline of project tasks fully implement that scope, and the process of using that baseline to develop schedules, costs and budgets, staffing and manpower requirements, and risk management. The TDG audit of such project planning also assures that control mechanisms are established to assure execution is in consonance with the plans. For plans already being executed the audit seeks to assure that the scope baseline and all of the project elements based upon it are being controlled and that cost, schedule and quality variances are being monitored on a continual basis. In summary, the project audit is designed to provide top-level managers with increased assurance that projects have been properly planned and are being executed and controlled in accordance with those plans. An audit is ideally scheduled prior to the decision to commit resources to executing the plan, but is valid anytime management desires an independent review. In the federal sector, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is demanding evidence of good project planning and controlled execution as a condition of releasing funding to agencies for project execution. This is being done using the OMB Exhibit 300 which represents a project business case that addresses the key elements of planning and control. The Dayton Group is expert in the use of the OMB 300 and has for several years assisted federal project managers in developing OMB 300 business cases based on standards and best practices in project and program management. The OMB goal is the same as top federal agency managers – to assure that good planning and control is in place for greater confidence that projects will perform on schedule and on budget. OMB also demands that business cases reflect risk adjusted cost and schedule information; TDG can help assure that this has indeed been done. The TDG principals bring the requisite expertise in effectively planning and executing projects and capturing that using the OMB 300 process. For marine projects such as river pile, bridge foundations, and locks and dams, TDG has established a working relationship with an associate having superb credentials in this field – The Midwest Companies of Tremont, Illinois. Jerome Green, the founder, owner and president of The Midwest Companies has a reputation with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Departments of Transportation of several states for bringing marine projects in on or ahead of schedule and at or under budget. Mr. Green and his people and company clearly understand the business of managing marine projects and effective task definition with the related schedule, budget, and risk management strategy development. The Midwest Companies have been involved in marine projects for over two decades and have done around $75 million worth of projects in the past three years. They consistently, accurately and safely deliver results that draw accolades from their customers. They are particularly skilled at the rehabilitation of locks and dams and the installation of bridge foundations in large rivers. Examples of marine projects accomplished by The Midwest Companies include:
Clearly the combination of TDG project and program management audit capabilities and the real world experience and project success of The Midwest Companies provides a strong capability for the review of project planning, realism of the cost and schedule estimates and execution controls to provide decision makers with greater confidence that marine projects will deliver the quality result desired on-budget and on-schedule. Project Audit is a valuable and cost effective
tool for senior decision makers that can pay the extra benefit of satisfying the demands of OMB in assuring the defense of funding
needs and the release of funding to projects that demonstrate that they have a high probability of being successfully managed. The
Dayton Group has been evaluated by Dun &
Bradstreet (D&B) under their Past Performance Evaluation review process. The Dayton
Group received 100% positive comments on cost, accuracy and personnel and no negative comments in any area. TDG is easily accessed
by Federal Agencies using its MOBIS Contract GS-10F-0227M. |