When you need it
Prepare this plan when interruption of a critical resource, service, supplier, access route, or information source could exceed the project's tolerance and the team needs credible response and restart arrangements in advance.
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Project Delivery Contingency Plan
Prepare practical responses to interruptions that could prevent critical project work or consulting services from continuing.
How to use this templateThis Word template contains prepared headings, tables, project fields and completion notes. Add your information, review the completed document and remove the notes before issue.
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Learning
How to use this template
What it helps you decide
It links specific interruption scenarios to practical alternatives, authority, and recovery checks, helping the project preserve essential delivery functions without assuming that a backup resource or workaround will be available when needed.
How to complete it
- Identify Critical activities and continuity objective using programme dependencies, then define Interruption scenarios and triggers that are credible for the specific project and delivery stage.
- Develop Response arrangements with confirmed alternatives, resources, authority, and communication routes, then specify Recovery and restart checks appropriate to the affected work or service.
- Address Programme, cost and contract interfaces and Exercise, review and maintenance, keeping mitigation plans distinct from any separately required change or contractual decision for implementation.
Who prepares and reviews it
The project manager usually coordinates planning, construction, engineering, procurement, information management, and key suppliers. Responsible specialists verify alternatives and restart conditions, while actual project authorities approve resource commitments and any contractual or baseline decisions.
A mistake to avoid
Naming an alternative supplier or specialist without checking availability and access creates a paper contingency that may fail precisely when the primary arrangement is disrupted.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: a tunnelling project depends on one specialist survey-data server. The plan identifies an interruption trigger, a verified restoration arrangement, and checks of restored reference data before work resumes. A review exercise reveals an access gap, which is corrected before the contingency is relied upon.
Document contents
- Critical activities and continuity objective
- Interruption scenarios and triggers
- Response arrangements
- Recovery and restart checks
- Programme, cost and contract interfaces
- Exercise, review and maintenance
Required inputs
- Project name, location, company, document number and revision
- Actual project scope, source records and responsible roles
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