Program Management

Program management involves comprehensive management for initiatives involving one or more projects, or multiple contracts or grants. CMC supports your efforts with a highly professional, dedicated and tailored approach.

Program management involves a broad set of skills and each initiative demands suitable approaches and applications and of those skills. Our team possesses a wide array of experience. CMC typically designates one of our team members as the primary program manager for a client’s initiative, but will continually draw upon the skills and input from our entire organization in order to best meet our client’s needs.

The details of each program vary, but in general our clients find that we bring value to their programs through the following types of activities:

  • Funds management: Particularly for large, grant or loan funded projects, we provide ongoing financial analysis to ensure that the client has the required funds to authorize work at every stage.
    • Resource/financial analysis
    • Cost and price analysis
    • Budget analysis and development
  • Contract scope management: For large scope projects, we help clients monitor large or multiple contracts, and evaluate and prioritize pieces of the scope to ensure financial and logistical success.
    • Scope of work development
    • Contract clause management
    • Contract compliance
    • Change order management
    • Contract invoice tracking
  • Creative, value -added solutions: We provide our clients with independent, value-added research and analysis of related issues to enable informed decision making and "outside-the-box" solutions.
    • Procurement strategy
    • Risk assessment
    • Terms and conditions analysis
    • Proposal evaluation and criteria development
    • Policy and planning

A Few of Our Specialty Areas

  • Septic-tank phase out policy and planning, including water and wastewater infrastructure projects
  • Municipal and public education initiatives involving general infrastructure planning and construction projects,
  • Initiatives to optimize processes and procedures optimizations including development of technologies to support optimization efforts, and change management
  • Management of multiple projects, contracts and grants as part of larger program efforts