Effective programming requires the establishment of accurate financial targets and obtainment of the authority to provide the facilities and infrastructure needed by the organization at the lowest life cycle cost. Our professionals offer proven programming support that ensures our client’s project requirements are validated, prioritized, and comply with applicable standards. In addition, we have a demonstrated ability to achieve optimum resource efficiency to minimize the need to obtain subsequent approval for funding changes after initial approval.

The development of realistic budgets requires knowledge of the preliminary project scope and technical requirements plus an ability to consistently and accurately estimate the cost and schedule requirements based on current and future construction market conditions. In addition, most organizations require a credible, independent review of each project budget by means of an independent cost estimate. At MOCA, we offer a proven capability of budget development and independent cost and schedule validation based on the project’s size, complexity, uniqueness, and potential risks.

The prioritization, phasing and sequencing of new construction, renovation and maintenance projects is a complex challenge given the wide range of factors that influence our clients' decisions – including stakeholder priorities, organizational needs, operational availability, cost impacts, and deadlines. At MOCA, we help our clients integrate their requirements and factors into a decision-making framework while building potential phasing and sequencing plans based on detailed milestones and simulated project execution schedules. Through virtual construction simulation, we gain early insight into risks and potential problems, and enable our clients to make changes to complete projects on-time and within budget – from simple upgrades to complex, billion dollar programs.

Accurate cost estimating is essential to the successful and efficient development and execution of projects. MOCA has a long history of consistently providing accurate cost estimates. When compared to industry standards, the MOCA team’s track record is best of class. We are experienced in preparing programming and conceptual cost estimates around the world using proprietary cost models, cost databases, and parametric cost estimating software. In addition, we have developed a proven approach to quantify real-time local market factors and use MOCABuildTM to more accurately estimate costs - regardless of the complexity, type and location of the project.

In today’s market, it is increasingly important for our clients to streamline their capital program processes for efficiency and productivity while at the same time leveraging years of facility and infrastructure investments to remain profitable and competitive. Long range capital program portfolios and return on investment (ROI) are developed early in the project life cycle, so preliminary cost estimates are used by senior leadership for approval very early in the project approval process. At MOCA, we have proven to help accurately budget and prioritize capital programs,ensuring that available funds are utilized cost effectively to support an organization’s missions and requirements and to maximize return on investment.

Paramount to a defendable cost estimate and risk analysis is a thorough understanding of real-time local market dynamics to ensure that the data used to make decisions are accurate. The MOCA team offers a systematic approach to conducting local economic market analyses to quantify current and future pricing and availability of material, labor, equipment; procurement and logistics; design approach; and codes and requirements. Client feedback indicates that no other team utilizing this structured approach to economic analyses to obtain pragmatic and actionable insight.

Conducting engineering and capital improvement program benchmarking studies offer our clients with an ability to gauge their performance and attempt to explain differences in efficiency. From performance benchmarking (cost comparisons) to process benchmarking (work practices), MOCA provides clients with an ability to assess their costs for implementing capital projects across the program lifecycle phases and across project types, sizes and locations. Based on client feedback, our industry knowledge coupled with our ability to collect and translate data into quantifiable and actionable steps for improvement is what enables us to help them achieve results.

Risk management is a critical aspect of cost engineering for our government agencies and commercial organizations. Our team has the specialized expertise to manage risk throughout the program including its identification, analysis and mitigation. We are knowledgeable and experienced with the compliance requirements of the formal cost risk analyses of EC Bulletin No. 2007-17 and utilize a structured cost and schedule risk analysis methodology and commercial software programs that include all critical risk elements. We help our clients to effectively focus decisions based on the internal and external risks, allowing them to better manage programs and achieve cost and schedule savings.