Common use of Preliminary Project Plan Clause in Contracts

Preliminary Project Plan. Contractor will provide a Preliminary Project Plan with the proposal for individual SOW’s for evaluation purposes, including necessary time frames and deliverables for the various stages of the project and the responsibilities and obligations of both the Contractor and the State. 1. In particular, the Preliminary Project Plan will include a MS Project plan or equivalent (check the SUITE/PMM standard): a. A description of the deliverables to be provided under this contract. b. Target dates and critical paths for the deliverables. c. Identification of roles and responsibilities, including the organization responsible. Contractor is to provide a roles and responsibility matrix. d. The labor, hardware, materials and supplies required to be provided by the State in meeting the target dates established in the Preliminary Project Plan. e. Internal milestones f. Task durations 2. The Preliminary Project Plan shall include the following deliverable/milestones for which payment shall be made. a. Payment to the Contractor will be made upon the completion and acceptance of the deliverable or milestone, not to exceed contractual costs of the phase. A milestone is defined as complete when all of the deliverables within the milestone have been completed. b. Failure to provide deliverable/milestone by the identified date may be subject to liquidated damages as identified in Article 2. Note: A Final Project Plan will be required as stated in Schedule A, Section 1.301 (C) Project Control.