Prime PMO Services
Claims and Delays Analysis
Prime PMO helps organizations assess project delays, prepare and review Extension of Time claims, analyze causation, evaluate schedule impacts, organize contemporaneous records, and produce clear, defensible delay analysis reports for contractual and management decision-making.
Evidence-Based Delay Analysis for Complex Projects and Contracts
Complex projects often face delays recorded late or without sufficient evidence, weak linkage between delay events and critical path impact, incomplete contemporaneous records, unclear cause-and-effect narratives, and baseline or updated schedules that are not suitable for forensic analysis.
Prime PMO supports owners, contractors, consultants, developers, public-sector clients, EPC organizations, and capital project teams by creating structured, evidence-based, and contract-aware claims and delay analysis. Our work connects contractual notices, correspondence, progress records, meeting minutes, instructions, RFIs, approvals, schedule updates, critical path movement, mitigation records, and entitlement positions into a defensible analysis framework.
Benefits of Claims and Delays Analysis
Prime PMO helps project organizations move from fragmented delay records to structured causation analysis, defensible programme assessment, and clear claim support for management, negotiation, or dispute-related decisions.
Establish Clear Delay Causation
Connect delay events to schedule impacts, affected activities, critical path movement, progress records, contractual correspondence, notices, and substantiation evidence.
Strengthen Extension of Time Submissions
Prepare and review EOT submissions with a clear chronology, entitlement basis, programme evidence, impact analysis, and organized supporting documents.
Support Fair and Informed Decisions
Help owners, engineers, contractors, and management teams evaluate delay responsibility, concurrent delay, mitigation, entitlement, and potential settlement positions.
What We Deliver
Our service scope can be tailored for live project support, EOT preparation, claim review, forensic schedule analysis, disruption assessment, negotiation support, or technical input to dispute resolution teams. Tools such as Oracle Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Asta Powerproject, Microsoft Project, Deltek Acumen Fuse, Power BI, and Excel-based event registers are used where they support the analysis.
- Extension of Time claim preparation and review
- Delay event identification and chronology development
- Baseline and updated schedule review
- Critical path assessment and time impact assessment
- Review of employer delay, contractor delay, excusable delay, compensable delay, and concurrent delay
- Assessment of mitigation measures and delay recovery efforts
- Preparation of delay analysis reports and management summaries
- Review of baseline schedules, revised baselines, and progress updates
- Schedule quality and logic assessment for forensic suitability
- Critical path and near-critical path analysis
- As-planned versus as-built analysis where appropriate
- Impacted as-planned analysis where appropriate
- Time impact analysis where appropriate
- Windows analysis or time slice analysis where appropriate
- Collapsed as-built analysis where appropriate
- Identification of schedule manipulation, missing logic, open ends, constraints, out-of-sequence progress, and unrealistic durations
- Claim strategy and structure support
- Development of claim narratives and cause-and-effect explanations
- Review of contractual notice and substantiation requirements
- Claim register and event register development
- Correspondence, progress reports, meeting minutes, photographs, RFIs, NCRs, approvals, instructions, and variation records review
- Preparation of supporting appendices and evidence matrices
- Coordination with commercial, legal, planning, and technical teams
- Review of contractor or subcontractor claims on behalf of owners, engineers, or consultants
- Disruption and productivity loss assessment support
- Review of acceleration, prolongation, resequencing, and resource impact issues
- Support for entitlement and responsibility analysis
- Delay and claims dashboards for management review
- Preparation of negotiation and settlement support materials
- Support for expert reports, dispute boards, mediation, arbitration, or litigation teams where required
- Development of lessons learned and claims prevention recommendations
Methods, Evidence & Outputs
Prime PMO selects and explains the delay analysis approach based on available records, project status, contractual requirements, schedule quality, and the nature of delay events. The objective is to create a clear technical basis for management review, claim preparation, claim response, negotiation, or dispute support.
Delay Analysis Methodology
Methodology selection and explanation using critical path analysis, time impact analysis, windows analysis, as-planned versus as-built, impacted as-planned, collapsed as-built, or contemporaneous period analysis where appropriate.
Evidence and Records Matrix
Organized mapping of delay events to notices, correspondence, progress reports, photographs, meeting minutes, instructions, RFIs, approvals, schedules, and contemporaneous records.
EOT and Claims Reports
Structured Extension of Time reports, delay narratives, chronology, programme analysis, impact assessment, entitlement support, appendices, and executive summaries.
Professional note: Prime PMO’s claims and delay analysis support is technical, project controls, planning, and advisory support. It does not constitute legal advice unless provided in coordination with appointed legal counsel.
Who We Support
Prime PMO supports organizations responsible for managing, reviewing, substantiating, and resolving delay, disruption, Extension of Time, and contractual schedule matters on complex capital projects and multi-project programs.
Project Owners and Developers
Independent delay assessment, contractor claim review, entitlement evaluation, programme impact analysis, and management decision support.
Engineering and Construction Companies
EOT preparation, delay event chronology, critical path analysis, claim substantiation, mitigation review, and recovery planning support.
Consultants and Supervision Engineers
Programme review, contractor schedule assessment, claims evaluation, response reports, evidence review, and technical recommendations.
Government and Public Sector Clients
Evidence-based delay analysis, claim review, contractual schedule assessment, and dispute-prevention support for public infrastructure investments.
Infrastructure and Transportation Organizations
Delay and disruption support for rail, road, airport, utilities, and infrastructure programs with complex interfaces and milestone obligations.
Energy, Industrial, and Real Estate Teams
Claims, EOT, disruption, productivity, acceleration, prolongation, and programme impact support for capital-intensive project environments.
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