Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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It's a serious driver. But there can be other
elements that will come into play in risk.
The insurance industry is establishing
whether bidders will go after your project and be
interested in doing business with OBO. There is
political risk, security risk. Cost is a risk. You
deal with these ideas early, get a VE team in,
analyzing these elements early and the effect. We
can narrow the negative effect in the latter part of
a project. Schedule is also a risk element.
We talked before about involving an
advisory group of users and post representatives.
Again, we want to see how the customer is using your
product, the relationship between the building and
post to help ensure that you are still providing a
valuable product. And who is your customer? And
that can sometimes be a serious issue. Is it the
post? Is it main State? Is it we the people? We
have to be able to prioritize who we are pleasing
and serving as our customer.
Next slide. We need to look at
constructability and multi-disciplinary teams. We
need to get the contractors involved in the VE
studies because we need to know how they procure
products, how they schedule bringing product and
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