1. Capabilities of CMS Inc.
February 26, 2016

3. Experience
¤ 30 years corporate experience
¤ 250 years collect project experience
¤ Have had input to the majority of large capital projects in
the area over the last 20 years in multiple industries
¤ Agrichemical
¤ Oil Refining
¤ Power Generation
¤ Pipelines
¤ Gaming/Public Facilities

4. Capabilities

5. Capability – as part of execution
¤ CMS Inc. is a full project services company for all phases of a
project – feasibility to commissioning
¤ Estimating
¤ Cost engineering
¤ Cost control
¤ Planning
¤ Scheduling
¤ Field services
¤ Management
¤ Safety
¤ Procurement
¤ Contract management

6. Capability – as third party consultant
¤ CMS Inc. has been commissioned to:
¤ Recover failing projects
¤ Provide “cold-eyes” reviews of performance
¤ Provide independent forecast and status assessment
¤ Review contractor estimates
¤ Review project delivery processes
¤ Assess the feasibility from pilot to commercial plant.

8. So What?
¤ Every company you talk to can present the same
capability; with the exception of being truly
independent.
¤ So the only thing that matters to you are the results
¤ All projects with a poor estimate immediately fail.
¤ All projects with a poor project control process cost more
and take longer than industry norms.
OUR RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

10. Estimating Accuracy
CMS$Estimate Other$Estimate
+1$Std.$Div. 108% 163%
Average$Est.$Accuracy 102% 130%
@1$Std.$Div. 97% 97%
Actual$Cost 100% 100%
Actual$Cost$+10% 110.0% 110.0%
Actual$Cost$@10% 90.0% 90.0%
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@1$Std.$Div.$ Average$Est.$Accuracy$ +1$Std.$Div.$

11. Project Controls Index
Deficient Poor Fair Best
IPA Assessment
Industry Average
Corporate Average
IPA Re-Assessment
CMS Provided Project Control Leadership To Site Portfolio
CMS Provided The Project Control For Large Project Same Site
CMS$Consistently$Improves$and$Obtains$High$
Project$Control$Index$Scores

12. The Facts Over Time
¤ Over a 5 year period of bring CMS Inc. in to provide
leadership to the contractors project controls group
initially. To having the Owner replace key members and
the contractor walking away from the control
responsibility. CMS Inc. working as the Owners project
controls group accomplished the following
¤ Reduced the cost overruns on the authorized budget from
17% to 3% (we still have work to go in defining scope)
¤ Estimating confidence went from 33% of project being within
+/- 10% to 93% being within +/- 10%.
¤ Schedule performance went from 1 in 5 being completed
on time to 3 out of 4 on time.

14. CMS Inc.’s Distinctiveness
¤ CMS Inc. is the only independent project control
company in the area.
¤ CMS Inc. has the highest ratio of certified staff.
¤ CMS Inc. doesn’t consider the project over until on-spec
product is delivered to inventory.
¤ Proven track record of successful project delivery.

15. Estimating

16. Estimating
¤ From concept to check estimates.
¤ Estimates are within the industry standard range of
accuracy.
¤ Estimates have been proven to have greater accuracy,
and consistency.
¤ Estimating units are constantly reviewed using actual
data.
¤ Estimators work as part of the Project Control Team.

18. Cost Control
¤ Works closely with the estimators.
¤ Utilizes all available data in forecasting final outcomes.
¤ Reviews contracting strategy to ensure status updates
are efficient and effective.
¤ Are cost engineers and focus on the now and future, not
accountants and focus on reporting history.
¤ Work closely with finance to ensure all reporting is
compliant with the owners needs.

20. Planning
¤ Work closely with the rest of the Project Control Team to
ensure alignment between cost and schedule.
¤ Initiate the overall project plan.
¤ Work with the project team to ensure buy-in to the plan.
¤ Ensure the plan is baselined and used as the basis for
variance analysis.
¤ Analysis the changes to the schedule to determine the
real impact on completion.

22. Bid Package Support
¤ CMS Inc.’s cost engineers ensure that a “scope-to-
scope” comparison is being made.
¤ Utilizing the base estimate and change management
tools the current budget is always representative of the
current scope for an execution package.
¤ CMS Inc. works with procurement to analyze the
discrepancies in pricing, ensuring that the package isn’t
cash flow negative.
¤ CMS Inc. works with procurement to price the exceptions
to the estimate.

23. Field Support
¤ CMS Inc. has provided the following field staff:
¤ Construction Manager
¤ Field Planner
¤ Contract administrator
¤ Safety supervisor
¤ Quantity Surveying