Assessment of the Results of External Independent Reviews for U.S. Department of Energy Projects (2007) / Chapter Skim
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. Peer reviews are conducted to ensure that activities are technically adequate, competently performed, and properly documented; to validate assumptions, calculations, and extrapolations; and to assess alternative interpretations, methodologies, acceptance criteria, and other aspects of the work products and the documentation that supports them.
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to undertake these studies. The resulting series of NRC studies recommended both internal and external independent project reviews to verify the mission need for DOE projects, their conceptual designs, the selection of alternatives, and project cost and schedule baselines.
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was also established that required senior management to review and approve a project and associated management actions before moving to the next phase of development: • CD-0 Approve mission need • CD-1 Approve alternative selection and cost range • CD-2 Approve performance baseline • CD-3 Approve start of construction • CD-4 Approve start of operations or project closeout The five CDs are major milestones approved by the Secretarial Acquisition Executive or the Acquisition Executive, who must ensure that a project meets applicable mission, design, security, and safety requirements. Each CD marks an incremental commitment of resources by DOE and requires successful completion of the preceding phase or CD.
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, • Key project cost and schedule assumptions, • Funding profile, • Critical path, • Risk management, • Systems functions and requirements, • Preliminary design review and comment disposition, • Basis of preliminary design (review element is limited to major complex projects) , • Hazards analysis, • Value management/engineering, • Project controls/earned value management system, • Project execution plan, • Start-up test plan, • Acquisition strategy, and • Integrated project team.
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, and corrective action plans are used by the OECM to develop recommendations for senior management and acquisition executive actions as input to CD-2 and to help determine whether a project is ready for inclusion in DOE's annual budget request. Between the release of O 413.3 in October 2000 through FY 2005, the OECM has completed more than 150 EIRs.
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The committee also reviewed EIR reports prepared by contractors, DOE corrective action plans, related project correspondence, and engaged in telephone conferences with selected project directors to gain further insight into the written record. The second meeting, convened June 7-9, 2006, included a workshop with DOE staff from headquarters and field offices of the OECM, the NNSA, the SC, and the EM; M&O contractors; and EIR contractors, who discussed the issues identified by the committee that influence the planning, execution, and outcome of EIRs.
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It covers the benefits of EIRs, the planning process, the independence and expertise of the review teams, the integration of the various types of DOE peer reviews, the costs of such reviews and the impact of where the funding comes from, and using the EIRs to improve overall project management. Chapter 3, "Criteria for Structuring Review Programs," discusses the policies and procedures for conducting a review program that includes EIRs and other types of peer reviews.
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2006. Humanizing Peer Reviews.
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