Step 1: Confirm Readiness
The Project Manager must review the project and confirm that it is appropriate to
Step 1
begin a PDS. This informal assessment is based on a review of the Site/Design
Confirm
Prospectus, site selection activities, the quality of previously conducted studies
Readiness
(including the Feasibility Study), the progress of the authorization process, and the
availability of staff and resources to conduct an effective study.
1.1
Affirm project status
Several years may have passed since the completion of the Feasibility Study. Many local,
and PDS resources
customer agency, and project conditions may have changed during the interim. The
PDS should be an assessment of where the project is today and where the project needs
to go. As a first step, the project team becomes well versed in the project's background
and history in order to scope the appropriate PDS and guide it to completion.
1.2
Assess supporting
Recommended Activities
documents
1.1 Affirm project status and PDS resources
Determine whether the time is right to begin the PDS.
1.2 Assess supporting documents
1.3
Assess validity of supporting documents and review project history.
Assemble the
1.3 Assemble the PDS team
PDS team
Identify all required GSA and customer agency team members and
ensure that the sufficient expertise is allocated for the PDS.
1.4 Update the PMP and develop the Work Plan and Communications Plan
1.4
Create a PDS Work Plan and Communications Plan in coordination with
Update the PMP and
the overall PMP.
develop the Work Plan and
Communications Plan
Outcomes
Clear direction for the PDS
Identification of the resources and strategy to be successful
Sufficient information to contract for the PDS
Duration
This task typically takes three (3) weeks.
Resources
assembled
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