DCMA Checks
Run the DCMA 14-point assessment against your live schedule, a stored project, or a client’s XER — before they run it on you.
Who it is for. Anyone submitting into a government or major-contractor schedule review. Also PMOs running the assessment on incoming contractor schedules.
What it is for
The 14-point assessment is the de facto quality gate on government and large capital work, and failing it in a client review costs a revision cycle. Checking it yourself means a separately purchased schedule-quality product or a spreadsheet of manual queries.
Run all fourteen checks on the live schedule with no export step, or assess an incoming XER or MSPDI file directly. Editable thresholds, activity-level reasons and revision comparisons make each result easier to investigate and report.
What it does
Every line below is in the product today.
All fourteen, in one pass
Logic, leads, lags, relationship types, hard constraints, high float, negative float, high duration, invalid dates, resources, missed tasks, critical path test, CPLI and BEI.
Every threshold is editable
Including both 44-day cutoffs, with per-check bounds, a reset to the DCMA default, and a badge on any check you have overridden. Most implementations ship the defaults fixed.
Assess a file without importing it
Run the assessment on an uploaded XER or MSPDI without bringing it into your workspace — which is exactly the incoming-contractor-schedule workflow.
Drill into the offenders
Click any check for a filterable list of every offending activity with a generated reason — the relationship and its lag, the float value, the days slipped against baseline.
Not-applicable is a real state
A check that cannot run says why — no data date, no baseline, schedule not calculated — instead of silently passing.
Containers excluded from the denominators
Project, summary, WBS, hammock and level-of-effort rows do not distort the percentages, and most checks are scoped to incomplete work.
A self-contained print-ready report
Scorecard plus per-check offender tables with an A4 print stylesheet and no external assets — open it to print, or download it as a standalone file.
Two revisions, compared
Beyond the 14-point pass/fail, compare any two schedule revisions for float erosion, duration growth, critical-path migration, logic and scope churn, and a schedule performance index — not just whether today’s schedule is healthy, but how and where it degraded.
It reads and writes with
Activities
The critical-path Gantt where the schedule is actually built — a virtualised table and timeline that computes your dates from logic, calendars and constraints instead of letting you type them.
Delay Digger
Forensic delay analysis on your own schedule revisions — window by window, separating what slipped because of progress from what slipped because someone edited the plan.
See it on your own schedule.
Send an XER before the call and we will import it and show you DCMA Checks running against your data.