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As project management advisors since 1984, we've developed a customizable Microsoft SharePoint®
application template for construction project teams. Our VPO solution offers all the benefits of Web-based collaboration, with a strategic focus on satisfying the requirements of the Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry. Project team members enjoy:
Efficient Review-and-Approval | Interoperability
Automatic Archiving | Neutral-Platform Hosting and Support
Efficient Review-and-Approval
Our document check-in and check-out capabilities eliminate project participants’ risk of overwriting one another’s changes, and a redlining feature allows for built-in commenting and editing. Your team will easily manage iterations of collaborative documents, with automatic version-history tracking of all modifications. Automatic e-mail notifications will ensure that everyone receives, reviews, and responds to documents in a timely fashion, so that you decrease cycle-time cost, and increase profitability.
For example, when your construction project team is ready to request bids from contractors, use your secure, Web-based VPO to issue Requests for Proposals (RFPs), provide bidding instructions, and announce up-to-date questions and answers. You'll be able to post downloadable construction documents such as drawings and project specifications; contractors then upload their bids electronically, automatically notifying the bid manager of their submission. Housing all bidding information in one secure, collaborative workspace shortens the duration and cost of the bidding process, helps you make confident contract-award decisions, and gets your project off to a successful start.
Enjoy a paperless, "green" project office with other automated electronic processes, too--for management of Requests for Information (RFIs), Submittals, Change Orders, Schedules and Payment Requisitions--to reduce your review-and-approval cycle times and bring your project to an on-time and on-budget completion. Any process your project requires can be incorporated into your VPO, so you stand to save your project time (otherwise spent chasing down people and information) and money (since you won’t be shipping printed construction documents from party to party).
No matter what systems your project participants use to manage their own work, a VPO serves as a neutral environment for sharing vital information appropriately. It integrates seamlessly with leading project management tools offered by Oracle|Primavera, Microsoft and more.
Your project team--and teams working on similar future projects--will benefit from having an automatic audit trail and version history, as well as archived Best Practices and lessons learned. You'll greatly reduce your risk exposure by automatically maintaining records of revisions, and ball-in-court requests and responses. In the event that you become involved in a dispute, having automatically archived information will significantly decrease the time and cost of gathering evidence that supports your position.
Neutral-Platform Hosting and Support
Take advantage of our offer to host your VPO and you’ll enjoy a neutral, secure, Web-based platform for storing and appropriately sharing project information--which reduces all participants’ exposure to claims. You’ll also benefit from our technical support when Simplex hosts and administers your VPO.
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