Hanford Tank Operations Contract

A $7.2 billion, five-year contract for base tank operations and waste retreival and treatment at one of the most challenging nuclear waste sites in the world. Won for Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), an LLC comprising URS Corporation and EnergySolutions Federal Services, Inc.

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Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP)

A potential $50 billion contract over five years for logistics and support services to U.S. and allied forces during combat, such as those missions now under way in Iraq and Afghanistan. Won for DynCorp International.

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Gail Conner

Chief Executive Officer

Ms. Gail Conner is CEO of CRC Technologies, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Ohio. In her capacity as CEO, Gail oversees daily operations of the firm, including both proposal management and project controls support services. She is responsible for accounting, human resources, government reporting, and customer satisfaction. Gail, along with her husband and family, has built CRC from a staff of two into a growing national consulting firm with highly qualified and credentialed personnel.

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Bob Conner

President

Bob is the founder and President of CRC Technologies, Inc. He has 31 years of professional experience in directing and managing projects ranging from environmental remediation and facility construction to development and implementation of large-scale computer applications. His project management experience is comprehensive, encompassing conceptual design, preparation of detailed technical specifications, contract negotiations, project scheduling and tracking, and contract close out. He has diverse technical writing and oral communications skills. Since founding CRC Technologies, Inc., Bob has personally supported 24 clients in preparing 96 proposals, ranging in size from $25 million to $50 billion in contract capacity.

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Basil Wayne Human

Chief Operating Officer

Basil is the Chief Operating Officer of CRC Technologies, Inc. He has over 27 years of experience in program, project, personnel, and engineering management. Basil provides clients with expertise in program and project implementation, from analyzing contract requirements and developing project execution plans through managing and overseeing the execution of the work. He has particular expertise in program management, having negotiated and directed work on over 1,200 task orders at all five DOE-ORO facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky; and Portsmouth, Ohio-with overall responsibility for all aspects of the program, from financial and scheduling through QA, procurement, and ES&H.

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Steve Beck

Director of Project Controls

Steve, Director of Project Controls, has over 20 years of experience in project management, project controls, planning, cost and schedule control, contract management, and claims management. Project experience includes major construction projects, nuclear decontamination and demolition, site characterization and closure, nuclear facility management, munitions response, technical writing, underground tank remediation, nuclear soil excavation, and specialty equipment fabrication. Steve currently serves as Program Manager leading CRC's project controls support services contract for Fluor-B&W Portsmouth in connection with the DOE Portsmouth D&D Project. He is a Certified Cost Consultant, an expert level user of Primavera and Deltek platforms, and a respected manager of people and projects.

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Tyler Shaw

Strategic and Business Planning

Tyler provides clients with expertise in strategic planning and business planning, developed over 12 years of experience in marketing, planning, and communications for government, not-for-profit, and commercial organizations. His experience includes developing multiple annual strategic plans, a post-merger sales force integration plan, the business plan for a joint venture established to execute a $5 billion new nuclear construction project, and a market-specific strategic plan that led to a doubling of the target business segment's revenue within two years for ($1 billion in annual revenue). His proposal experience includes assistant managing a four-party joint venture bid for approximately $2 billion of new nuclear construction in the United Kingdom

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Proposal Preparation

CRC has written the book on proposal development. CRC employs its disciplined, trademarked ACTWRite process to lead clients to success. Our process has achieved a greater than 70% win rate on multi-billion dollar, high-risk proposals. CRC has captured over $10 billion of work for our clients over the past five years, with wins exceeding $40 billion since our inception. CRC improves the results of firms from strategic planning and opportunity identification through capture, transition, and execution.

ACT WRite - A winning method

Using CRC’s proprietary ACT WRite process, our clients manage and prepare proposals for everything from bridges to chemical weapons disposal facilities, ranging up to $50 billion in total contract value. Our process covers all phases, from Target Selection and Capture Planning through Proposal Preparation, Color Team Reviews, and Orals Preparation.

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Project Controls

Helping you win and work where it matters most - Cost

CRC has the expertise to manage and assist your team in preparing a fully compliant Proposal Cost Volume. Our staff possesses the scheduling and estimating experience and expertise in both proposal preparation and field implementation that will help you move from a compliant winning proposal to an approved, executable baseline. We specialize in:

• Preparing a completion schedule and tracking daily performance against the schedule
• Preparing a compliance matrix and verifying completeness
• Building estimating spreadsheets and checking for errors
• Validating estimating assumptions
• Verifying the linkage between and integration of the Basis of Estimate (BOE), schedule, and estimate; and recommending ways to fix any gaps that might exist
• Validating labor rate buildups to ensure auditability
• Validating estimating assumptions to ensure auditability
• Preparing written audit preparedness reports
• Compiling and editing Cost Volumes.

During Transition

During transition, we lead contract, schedule, and cost control by:

• Preparing a transition schedule and reporting daily progress
• Preparing a matrix of contract changed conditions and a summary of their cost and schedule impact
• Assembling teams to address each change condition
• Preparing detailed narratives, schedules, and cost impacts
• Submitting FAR compliant change proposals and supporting negotiations
• Merging changed conditions into the baseline by tagging them with codes for traceability
• Converting the proposal schedule and estimate into the Contract Performance Baseline
• Compiling recommendations for managing Management Reserve
• Supporting development of a Performance Measurement Baseline

During Contract Execution

We help develop simple but very robust solutions for managing projects well. Using our solutions, everyone will know the project’s critical path, budget, required productivity rates, changes and their impact, as well as risks and their impacts. The management team will also have a clear picture of the project without fear of surprises. Providing quality project controls support to our clients mean integration into their organization and providing services in alignment with their missions and goals.

Providing quality project controls support to our clients mean integration into their organization and providing services in alignment with their missions and goals.

• We publish and emphasize the critical path portion of the schedule.
• We support development of an accrual and commitment tracking system.
• We set up a commitment tracking system that allows project managers to see and understand commitments to ensure their estimate-to-compete is accurate.
• We set up cost account managers at a lower level and publish cost and productivity estimates. We conduct daily meetings to discuss critical activity progress and measure key metrics against planned productivity and plan work around actions to ensure critical activities stay on track.
• We publish easy to read productivity curves and update critical curves daily and non-critical curves weekly. We use larger font to emphasize critical work and place them to maximize their availability to everyone on the project.
• Production meetings are dedicated to reviewing the critical path and actions needed to keep ahead of schedule. Workforce planning is focused on critical work first. Critical path activities are worked every day at full staffing levels with the best workers.
• We set up a trend and baseline change notification, tracking, and approval system.
• We set up a risk register and determine the amount of project risk. We interview every level of the workforce to determine the biggest risks. Next, we list them in order of probability and impact, then publish and review the list weekly with the work teams.

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Dispute Resolution

CRC Technologies has been supporting our clients resolve disputes for the past 15 years, providing unmatched service resulting in $4.2 billion in settlements.

Expert services offered:

• Delay and Disruption Analyses
• Economic Damages Analyses
• Productivity Analyses
• Acceleration Analysess
• Critical Path Schedule Analyses

Former Clients

Confidential Client 1 - Claim Value: $230M

CRC lead development and provided technical resources to prepare a claim for reimbursement of project costs incurred outside the scope of our confidential client’s contract with their customer. During discovery, our personnel documented the scope of the contract, the scope of work that our client claimed was outside the contract scope, and determined the extent of documentation existing between our client and their client. For scope areas our staff determined to be outside the contract scope, our personnel developed planning packages, cost estimates, schedules, basis of estimates, and technical descriptions of the work. Using these planning packages, we developed the claim package for our client to request equitable adjustment for the additional work performed.

Confidential Client 2

CRC led and performed forensic efforts to document the chronology of more than 180 changes to a $1.5B contract. Our personnel documented the scope of each change, the timing of each, and their impacts, not only individually but also the cumulative impacts in their aggregate. Products delivered to our client included a report documenting the scope and impact of each contract change, an integrated analysis documenting the aggregate impacts, an execute management summary document, and a presentation package for the client’s contract manager to brief their executive management and their client’s management.

Confidential Client 3 - Claim Value: $270M

CRC developed a five-phase process to “true-up” a confidential client’s contract and provided technical resources to prepare a claim for reimbursement of project costs incurred outside the scope of our confidential client’s contract with their customer. For scope areas our staff determined to be outside the contract scope, our personnel developed planning packages, cost estimates, schedules, basis of estimates, and technical descriptions of the work. Using these planning packages, we developed the claim package for our client to request equitable adjustment for the additional work performed.

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Engineering, Procurement, and Construction

We offer architecture and engineering services for Government and commercial agencies anywhere in the world. We have a commitment to value-based design, providing assessments, conceptual design studies, construction administration, cost estimates, engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical, and structural), facility security, interior design, master planning, space planning, transportation planning and design, urban planning and design, and construction.

Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Support

CRC Technologies provides clients with the management and operations expertise to ensure government, regulatory, and environmental compliance while meeting contract requirements. Our project development and planning experience, coupled with our knowledge of government guidelines and international standards, ensures that our clients develop and implement effective, implementable project execution plans and management systems in a timely fashion and pass operational readiness reviews/assessments with flying colors. We know the “when” and the “why” of project planning and development, how to get project management systems, including EVMS, in place and in compliance, and how to get projects through government processes.

CRC also provides implementation services for a wide range of tasks, from project management and project controls through engineering, construction management/oversight, QA/QC, and waste management. We have access to over 100 professionals, including project managers, project control specialists, scientists, and engineers standing ready to assist clients on their projects anywhere in the world.

Experience

With eighteen years of experience in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC), we have successfully worked with the Department of Defense, municipal Governments, transportation, industrial, correctional facility, and commercial clients and are a leader in responsible, sustainable design.

CRC-KZF International has earned over 30 awards in the past five years from the Department of Defense, US Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Design Awards, US Air Force Design Awards Program, Design/Build Institute of America (DBIA), and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Cincinnati Chapter, to name a few. These projects range from designing and building bridges and higher education laboratories to a U.S. Customs Advanced Training Center Firing Range and a TRANSCOM Permanent facility at Scott Air Force Base.

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Consulting

CRC Technologies provides the technical expertise and qualified resources vital to project success: experienced subject matter experts and consultants, as well as project management, controls, and operations personnel. When a client needs contract personnel to contribute specialized skills, to deploy to a remote site, or to meet a temporary resource insufficiency, we respond quickly with qualified personnel to locations anywhere around the world.

Experience Providing Technical Experts and Staff Augmentation

In the past five years, CRC has provided subject matter experts in diverse technical areas from detection of weapons of mass destruction at international border crossings; to safeguards and security at nuclear facilities in the United States, Europe, and Central Asia; to power generation design and construction in the former Soviet Union. CRC provided subject matter experts to fulfill the specialized needs of our clients and ensure their success on complex technical and first-of-a-kind projects. Each individual CRC has provided to a client remained on assignment through its logical conclusion, a performance metric which is difficult to achieve when providing support in remote locations.

In the past five years, we have provided more than 200 personnel to augment our clients’ staff in the areas of project management, project control, design, and construction. Examples include the provision of project control personnel to support earned value management on construction projects in Siberia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan.

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