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Tender response for an oil company

Tender response for an oil company

Introduction

This assignment examines the gas plant maintenance strategies and how to respond to a tender for global maintenance of gas plants. This paper explains the important roles and responsibilities of the project team and the role of subcontractors. Further, the paper discusses the project management plan and the breakdown of project cost. Lastly, the critical path for the project has been calculated and conflict of interest has been explained.

Analysis

Overview of Gas plant maintenance

The plant maintenance is considered as an activity to ensure the reliability and performance of equipments. The plant maintenance includes installation, repair and restoration of equipments. The maintenance strategies include breakdown, preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance (Jabar, 2003, p.n.d.). The breakdown maintenance strategy is the approach to take actions when the equipment requires. The companies who follow this strategy do not maintain their plants on regular basis and also they do not have any schedule planned for these activities. The strategy is applied to the maintenance of the plant where the failure has been occurred or is about to occur. It is usually applicable for corrective maintenance.

The preventive maintenance strategy requires a planned approach towards taking equipments off, opening and inspecting for repair or maintenance. The components and parts of the equipments are changed as per scheduled and regardless of the condition. It is expensive to apply such strategy as the cost of repair and maintenance is very high (Jabar, 2003, p.n.d.). The predictive maintenance is a condition based approach, in which the plant manager assess the current condition of equipment and determine if actions are required for maintenance or not. The statistical tools are installed with the equipment which provides the result of the plant condition. It is a less expensive approach and many companies follow this. The proactive maintenance strategy is based on identifying the root cause to the failure of equipment (Jabar, 2003, p.n.d.). It is significant for the companies to identify the actual reason behind failure and not just replace the equipment.

Section 1: General information

Name of (Lead) Organisation: Petrofac Limited

Contact Name: Yves Inbona

Job title of person: Managing Director Offshore

Tel No: +44 20 7811 4900

Fax: +44 20 7811 4901

E-mail address: not available

Postal address: Petrofac Limited, 4th Floor, 117 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6HH, United Kingdom

Company registration number: 81792, Registered in Jersey

Section 2: The project team

The project team manages the project and the deliverable of the project with a vision of making project a success. It is important to carefully select the members of the project team (Westcott, 2005, p.12).

2.1

Title

Role

Responsibility

Project Manager

Developing the project overview statement in conjunction with the client.

Manages the scope bank.

Ensure no conflict is present between the team members.

Allocating and utilising resources efficiently.

Maintaining coordination and motivation among the project team members.

Leading the project from start to end.

Developing project plan.

Cross functional coordination and solutions to problems.

Recruiting skilled team members.

Final approval of project plan from client.

Daily meeting with members.

Monitoring progress and managing scope deviations.

Project Sponsor

Approving and allocating resources.

Assessing the project success.

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