SpecSense · P6 Scheduling Services for US Contractors

On public work, the schedule is a payment condition, not paperwork.

< 4%

of construction firms have a dedicated project controls team, per SmartPM's 2025 industry survey.

$25,000

deducted by Caltrans for a missing final as-built schedule. Most DOTs withhold monthly estimates for late updates.

Everything a scheduler does, without the hire.

Send drawings, specs or an XER. Get back a schedule your owner will accept.

Free 14-point schedule health check

Email us any P6 or MS Project schedule (XER, XML, MPP). Within 24 hours you get a DCMA 14-point report: missing logic, dangling activities, constraint abuse, float problems and where a delay claim would hurt you.

$0, 24-hour turnaround, no strings

Free schedule check

Baseline schedule builds

CPM baselines built from your drawings and specs, compliant with DOT, USACE and NAVFAC scheduling requirements.

from $1,200 fixed

Monthly schedule updates

Statused, narrated updates delivered before your submission deadline, every period. Your estimate never gets withheld.

from $500 / project / month

Cost & resource loading

SOV-aligned cost loading for federal pay applications, verified to reconcile to contract value.

from $1,500

Deep schedule review

Consultant-grade written review with claim-exposure analysis and a prioritized fix list.

from $300

Delay & EOT support

Time-impact and as-planned vs as-built analysis supporting your extension of time requests.

hourly or fixed scope

From inbox to accepted schedule.

SEND

Email your files

An XER for a check or update. Drawings and specs for a new baseline. That's the whole intake.

REVIEW

Get a fixed quote same day

Scope and a fixed price within hours, not a week of discovery calls. Free health checks come back within 24 hours.

DELIVER

Import and submit

You receive a clean XER plus an Excel summary, ready to import into P6 and submit to your owner.

Built by a planning engineer, priced like software.

SpecSense is run by a Primavera P6 planning and scheduling specialist supported by purpose-built tooling for XER analysis, DCMA checks and cost loading. That tooling is why the turnaround is hours where firms quote weeks.

DCMA 14-point methodologyThe same assessment owners' consultants run against your schedule, run for you first.
DOT / USACE / NAVFAC spec literacyBaselines and updates structured around the scheduling specifications public owners actually enforce.
Native P6 round-tripDeliverables arrive as importable XER files with verification sheets, not screenshots of someone else's software.
Published fixed pricesEvery US scheduling firm quotes by phone. Our prices are on this page.

Your P6 schedule, spec‑compliant in 24 hours.