CPM scheduling services in Minnesota for transit, MnDOT and public works contractors
Cost- and resource-loaded Primavera P6 baselines and monthly updates built to the Metropolitan Council’s schedule requirements, the same work we delivered for Donlar Construction on the METRO Gold Line.
✓ Flat-fee quote within 24 hours
✓ PSP®-certified schedulers
✓ Unlimited revisions until approved
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Transit, federal and commercial contractors who put Leopard on the schedule
What a Council schedule review and a Minnesota winter do to a weak schedule
A Metropolitan Council contract asks for a Primavera P6 schedule that is coded to the Council’s activity code dictionary, loaded with cost and resources, and updated every month. Then the building season closes. Miss on either one and the job pays for it:
A baseline returned by the Council’s representative before the first pay application.
Activity codes and calendars that do not match the project’s coding requirements.
Concrete pushed into cold-weather procedures the bid never priced.
A permit or plan review delay with no analysis behind the time request.
Monthly updates that arrive late and hold up the cost report.
A schedule set up to the Council’s rules on day one, with winter built into the calendars, avoids most of it.
Get My Flat-Fee QuoteHow we build a Metro Transit schedule the Council can approve
We start with the contract’s scheduling section and the Council’s project-level coding requirements. On the Gold Line BRT Woodlane Drive Station Park & Ride in Woodbury, that meant the Council’s type-of-work and responsibility codes and the project calendars, all set up before the first activity went in.
Baselines: every permit, submittal, procurement and construction activity in Primavera P6, loaded with cost from the schedule of values and with resources, and sequenced with your superintendent. Updates: each month we progress the schedule, report the actual cost for the period and return the narrative within 1–2 working days of your progress data.
Winter and delays: weather days go into the calendars the way the project spec sets them out. When a plan review, a design change or a late delivery moves the critical path, we add the fragnet and prepare the time impact analysis for your time request.
Get My Flat-Fee QuoteScheduling services for Minnesota transit and public works contracts
Cost- and resource-loaded baselines for Metropolitan Council, Metro Transit and MnDOT contracts.
Monthly progress updates with a narrative and the actual cost for the period.
Time impact analysis for permit, design and weather delays.
Independent schedule reviews before the Council’s or MnDOT’s reviewer opens the file.
Recovery schedules when a winter start puts substantial completion at risk.
Activity coding to the owner’s code dictionary, with calendars and weather days per the spec.
Bid and proposal schedules for Minnesota transit, highway facility and public building pursuits.
Get My Flat-Fee QuoteFrom Minnesota contract award to an approved baseline in three steps
Step 01
Send your specs
Send the scheduling section of the contract, the owner’s coding requirements, the schedule of values and your bid schedule, in P6 or MS Project.
Step 02
Get a flat-fee quote in 24 hours
Within 24 hours you have a flat fee in writing with every deliverable listed. Draft baselines typically arrive within 7 days.
Step 03
Get an approved schedule
We answer the reviewer’s comments with you and revise the schedule, with no limit on revisions, until it is approved.
Minnesota results: a Gold Line park-and-ride and a MnDOT travel center
METRO Gold Line BRT, Woodlane Drive Station Park & Ride, Woodbury, MN
Donlar Construction
Owner: Metropolitan Council. We developed the cost- and resource-loaded Primavera P6 baseline, coded to the Council’s activity code dictionary, and the Council’s representative approved it. Then came 18 progress updates on the $18.3 million schedule, each with a narrative and the actual cost for the period.
St. Croix Travel Information Center, Interstate 94, West Lakeland Township, MN
Donlar Construction
Owner: MnDOT Building Services Section. We built the Primavera P6 baseline with weather calendars set out the way the project spec requires, then kept it current with monthly updates. When an added fire suppression system delayed structural steel, the fragnet showed the effect on the longest path.
What Donlar’s project manager said about the Metro Transit schedule
“Seyar and his team have been helping us put together our P6 project schedule for a large $20 million Met Transit facility. They have been very helpful and extremely knowledgeable on the scheduling process.”
Chris Osby, Project Manager
Donlar Construction Company
Minnesota project experience
We schedule Minnesota projects from St. Augustine, Florida. Both of these were scheduled for Donlar Construction.
Gold Line BRT, Woodlane Drive Station Park & Ride
Woodbury, MN
Client: Donlar Construction
Cost-loaded P6 baseline, 18 progress updates and a delay impact analysis
St. Croix Travel Information Center
West Lakeland Township, MN
Client: Donlar Construction
P6 baseline and monthly progress updates
A schedule the Council sends back vs. one it approves
Sent back
Activities with no codes from the owner’s dictionary.
Cost that does not add up to the schedule of values.
Winter work on a calendar with no weather days.
Permits and plan reviews left out of the logic.
Updates with no narrative and no cost for the period.
A delay claimed with nothing in the schedule behind it.
Built by Leopard to be approved
First baseline draft, typically within 7 days.
Every activity coded, cost-loaded and resource-loaded.
Update and narrative back within 1–2 working days.
Weather days and winter work built into the calendars.
A fragnet and time impact analysis for each delay.
Unlimited revisions until the owner approves.
Hand the Council a schedule it can approve.
Get My Flat-Fee QuoteMinnesota construction scheduling consultants for Metro Transit and MnDOT projects
Most large transit construction in the Twin Cities is let by the Metropolitan Council, which builds for Metro Transit: bus rapid transit lines, stations, park-and-rides and support facilities. On the Council contract we scheduled, the owner required a Primavera P6 schedule coded to its project dictionary, loaded with cost and updated every month, and its representative reviewed each submittal. A contractor new to Council work is better off learning that before the first submittal than after it.
Our CPM scheduling services in Minnesota come from that experience. For Donlar Construction we developed the baseline for the METRO Gold Line BRT Woodlane Drive Station Park & Ride in Woodbury: a post-tensioned parking structure, a station platform and shelter, stormwater ponds, intersection reconstruction and fiber optic communications. The Council’s representative approved the baseline, and we maintained it through 18 progress updates. When permits arrived late at the start of the job, our time impact analysis measured the effect on substantial completion at 45 calendar days.
The same approach carries to MnDOT. On the St. Croix Travel Information Center on Interstate 94, a MnDOT Building Services project, we built the baseline with the weather calendars the project spec called for and updated it monthly. As a construction scheduling company working in a state with a short building season, we plan for winter: weather days in the calendars, cold-weather concrete in the durations, and an independent schedule review before the owner sees the file.
The Council’s contract forecast lists more bus rapid transit construction in the coming years. Once your baseline is approved, we keep it current with monthly schedule updates, returned with a narrative within 1–2 working days of your progress data. As your Minnesota construction scheduling consultant, our CPM scheduling firm works remotely from St. Augustine, Florida, and quotes every job as a flat fee. Read more about our Primavera P6 scheduling services, or Get My Flat-Fee Quote.
What Minnesota contractors ask before sending a contract
Our one office is in St. Augustine, Florida. We supported both Donlar Construction projects in Minnesota remotely: progress data comes in on an update form, reviews happen by call and screen-share, and we travel to site when the job needs it.
Yes. For Donlar Construction we developed the cost- and resource-loaded Primavera P6 baseline for the Gold Line BRT Woodlane Drive Station Park & Ride, coded to the Council’s project-level activity code dictionary. The Council’s representative approved it, and we maintained it through 18 progress updates.
With calendars and durations. Weather days go into the project calendars the way the spec sets them out, concrete and sitework carry cold-weather durations, and planting follows the planting calendar. If a late start pushes work into winter, the update shows it and the narrative says so.
The flat-fee quote takes 24 hours or less. Draft baselines typically arrive within 7 days. Each monthly update and its narrative comes back within 1–2 working days of your progress data.
One flat fee per update, or one flat monthly fee for the whole project. The quote lists each deliverable. Our CPM scheduling cost page explains what drives the fee.
Yes. Send the MPP file. We build the schedule in Primavera P6 with the owner’s activity codes, calendars, cost and resources, and return a baseline ready to submit. Revisions are unlimited until it is approved.
Bidding or just awarded a Minnesota transit contract? Get the flat fee first.
A Metro Transit station, a park-and-ride or a MnDOT facility: send the scheduling section and we answer within 24 hours with one flat fee.
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