Capabilities You'll Gain
VPO employees, customers, and users unite and work as partners so they can reach project completion on time, on budget, and on good terms--in accordance with CMAA Standards of Practice if desired--with an automatic audit trail of all project data and interactions.
VPO customers get everything you'd expect, and a few things you wouldn't.

Generalities & Specifics
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RFIs, Submittals & Other Workflows
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Program Management
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Document Management
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Dashboards & Analytics
What we've created goes way beyond file storage.
Streamline and enforce your processes, with automated routing of review-and-approvals via Ball-in-Court (BiC) and email notifications.
- Requests for Information (RFIs)
- Submittals
- Issues
- Action Items
- Bid Management & Requests for Proposal (RFPs)
For portfolio planning, you'll have standardization, uniformity, and transparency.
Benefit from an executive dashboard of real-time reports and portfolio-wide views.
- Power BI
- ERP Integration
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Capital Budget Visibility
- Lessons Learned & Playbook
Enjoy familiar Microsoft Office 365 functionality.
Co-author, edit, and sync docs, with version history, right from your browser and mobile devices, using apps like OneDrive.
- Robust Keyword Search
- Metadata Tagging
- Archive
- Meeting Minutes
- Customer-branded Reports
Strategic decisions should be data-driven.
Correlate and synthesize data from multiple systems, documents, and other sources--visually--facilitating transparency, and uniform data consumption and processing. In partnership with VPO, you'll identify the answers you need, and build a data strategy that delivers KPIs via compelling diagrams, charts, and other images.
- Power BI Ease & Expertise
- Data Visualization for Business Intelligence
- Custom Data-refresh Schedule
- Data Sharing, via VPO and email
- Power Automate (formerly Flow)
Change Management
VPO will help you mitigate the potentially negative impact of change on your budget and schedule--and at project completion you’ll be able to analyze the circumstances surrounding your changes, and plan for the future.
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Potential Change Orders
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Change Order Requests (CORs)
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Requests for Proposal (RFPs)
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Change Orders (COs)
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Work Directives
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Work Change Directives
Schedule Management
Build templates with a standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), using Critical Path Method (CPM), Time Impact Analysis (TIA), estimated activity durations, established logic between tasks, and estimated labor costs.
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Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
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Resource Management
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What-if Analysis
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Earned Value
Financial Management
Whether it’s at the individual project level or portfolio-wide, through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integration VPO gives you real-time transparency, visibility, monitoring, and budget control.
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Budget Management
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Contract Management
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Purchase Orders (POs)
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Invoices
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Payment Applications (Pay Apps)
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Quantity Tracking
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Cash-flow Estimates
Bid Management
Simply and securely invite bidders, share bid packages, provide updates and answers to questions, and notify bidders of their bids' outcomes--without their counting as users in your VPO subscription.
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Password-protected, Private Web Site
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Bidder Registration for Automated Email Notifications
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Bid Center Dashboard
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Global Directory of Bidders
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Downloadable Bid Packages
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Updates, Answers to Clarification Questions & Addenda
Drawings Management
No more confusion over which is the latest version. You'll clearly and easily manage and control all revisions to your drawings and specifications.
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Issuance Summary for Revision Tracking
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Automatic Version History
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Metadata Tagging
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View via Mobile Device
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Architect's Supplemental Instructions
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Archive
Field Reports
With a mobile device, you'll document the work performed, weather, equipment, etc., just by completing a form--automatically capturing it all in a printable report.
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Daily Observation Reports
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Punchlist Management
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Inspection & Testing Reports
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Progress Photos & Videos
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Live Webcam Feeds
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Quantity Tracking
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Labor Tracking
Risk Management
Your VPO solution will support you in identifying, documenting, and mitigating risk so that your team and your projects meet compliance standards.
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Construction Industry Customs and Practices
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Control Plan
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Risk Log
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Issue Tracking
Safety Management
What could be more important than creating and maintaining a safe and efficient work environment? With VPO, you'll gain uniformity, monitoring, and management.
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Daily Safety Reports
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Safety Statistics
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Safety Documents
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COVID-19 Checklist
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Safety Dashboard
Claims Management
Process enforcement and a single point of record help your team avoid claims. In a dispute, you'll rely on built-in documentation functionality to strengthen your case and fast-track Discovery.
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Automatic Audit Trail
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Archive
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Non-compliance Notices
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Non-conformance Notices
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Letters