Finish on time and within budget.
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Vanguard Resolve LLC is a New Jersey-based consultancy in CPM scheduling, forensic delay and claims analysis, risk management, cost estimating and construction management for public infrastructure programs. We help you finish the project on time and within budget.
Licensed, approved and prequalified with major government agencies
Vanguard Resolve is licensed in New Jersey and New York, Cost-Basis Approved by NJDOT, and prequalified or registered with the public owners below.
Finish on time and within budget
Delay claims are usually fought in shades of gray: competing schedule analyses and exhausting arguments among the owner, its consultants and the contractors. Vanguard Resolve moves these disputes to black and white, based on the record.
Every change, every year.
We identify changes in schedule statements, forensically test the schedule record, and look for double-dipping, the same delay or cost claimed more than once. We go back years to validate claims.
No claim is final.
Prior approvals are not the end of the story. If the record does not support a claim, amounts previously approved or paid can be revisited, subject to the contract and the law. A contractor that submits false or inflated claims may face False Claims Act liability.
Ab initio methodology.
We test each claim from the beginning of the record, not from the contractor’s narrative. We examine the claimant’s own conduct (late notice, working without reservation of rights, accepting payment) for waiver and equitable estoppel, defenses that can defeat or reduce a claim. Knowingly false claims can carry civil and, in serious cases, criminal consequences.
Law tied to CPM.
We connect 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733 directly to engineering CPM analysis (AACE RP 29R-03, Primavera P6), working alongside agency counsel.
Eighty-four animated graphs. Two labs.
See how we think. Every AACE 29R-03 delay method on one side, a full cost and schedule risk simulation on the other.
Construction Claims Lab
All nine AACE 29R-03 Method Implementation Protocols, from gross as-planned vs as-built to subtractive modeled analysis.
Enter the lab →Risk Management Lab
Tornado, distribution and scatter graphs built on Standard Cost Categories, Beta Range Factors and a live risk register.
Enter the lab →Seven services. One goal: your project finished on time and within budget.
Construction Management
Owner-side CM, contract administration and closeout.
Program Management
Program-level planning, delivery oversight, reporting and stakeholder coordination.
Construction Inspection
Field inspection and quality assurance with NJDOT-experienced, certified inspectors.
Project Controls
Integrated schedule, cost and reporting that keeps decision-makers informed.
Risk Management
Risk registers and quantitative cost / schedule risk modeling.
Construction Claims
Forensic delay analysis, entitlement review and claims defense or support.
Schedule & Cost Estimating
CPM schedule review and development, independent cost estimates.
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→Risk, cost and schedule, in motion.
Animated illustration using simulated data to show the type of analysis we perform. Not client results.
Owner-side. Independent. Principal-led.
Counties, towns, libraries, universities, airports and transportation agencies
Vanguard Resolve stands independent of the large engineering firms, so the advice you get is the firm’s own.