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US DOT <strong>Federal</strong> <strong>Transit</strong> <strong>Administration</strong><br />
TPM-20 Office of Engineering<br />
Project Management <strong>Oversight</strong><br />
<strong>Oversight</strong> Procedure OP-35 Project Contingency and Contract Packaging Review<br />
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1.0 PURPOSE<br />
To support <strong>FTA</strong> programmatic decisions as to the adequacy of Project Contingencies and third party<br />
contractual risk allocations and the soundness of Grantee management decisions regarding the<br />
development of risk allocations and usage of contingencies.<br />
To obtain the Project Management <strong>Oversight</strong> Contractor’s (PMOC) products that identify,<br />
characterize and analyze project contingency availability, status and forecasts for critical project<br />
scope milestones relative to that expected under forecasted conditions and sound engineering<br />
practices.<br />
The OP‐35 products support <strong>FTA</strong>’s programmatic goals for ensuring that Grantee management<br />
processes include a thorough understanding and implementation of risk informed, fundamentally<br />
sound project strategies.<br />
2.0 BACKGROUND<br />
The role of theOP‐35 product is to identify, characterize and precisely describe critical elements of<br />
responses to project risk, including establishment of project cost and schedule contingencies, and<br />
contractual risk allocations. These products complement other risk information products, especially<br />
including those in OP‐40. These procedures are to be applied in consideration of project cost and<br />
schedule as well as other technical parameters such as service reliability. OP‐35 deliverables are<br />
intended to be fully sufficient to evaluate the adequacy, effectiveness, and efficiency of the Grantee’s<br />
management of contingency and contract packaging at any point during project implementation.<br />
2.1.1 Cost and Schedule Contingency<br />
<strong>FTA</strong> has developed a significant amount of program experience to offer guidance to PMOCs and<br />
Grantees as to establishing various forms of contingency. In addition, studies such as TCRP’s 2005<br />
report on “Managing Capital Costs of Major <strong>Federal</strong>ly Funded Public Transportation Projects” have<br />
evaluated cost and schedule variances on transit projects. These TCRP parameters were used to<br />
develop the requirements for the OP‐35 products.<br />
2.1.2 Contractual Risk Allocation<br />
The Grantee’s choice of project delivery method and contracting strategy is integral to the Grantee’s<br />
Project Management Plan. This plan should demonstrate the Grantee’s technical approach and<br />
trade‐off analyses to obtaining the optimum allocation of risk that will achieve the preferred<br />
balance of project goals, including lowest overall project cost.<br />
<strong>FTA</strong>’s Project and Construction Management Guidelines note that risk should be considered in<br />
OP 35 Project Contingency and Contract Package Review<br />
Revision 0, June 2008<br />
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