Finish on time and within budget.
Vanguard Resolve LLC helps public owners control cost and schedule through construction management, program management, construction inspection, project controls, risk management, claims support, CPM scheduling and cost estimating.
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Who We Are
Vanguard Resolve LLC is a New Jersey-based consultancy in CPM scheduling, forensic delay and claims analysis, risk management, cost estimating and construction management for public infrastructure programs.
I am President & CEO, with 35+ years of claims, forensic schedule and program controls experience at WSP, Louis Berger, HNTB, URS and AECOM on NJ TRANSIT, Amtrak, MTA/NYCT and Port Authority programs. I currently lead claims and forensic risk on the $452M George Washington Bridge Suspender Rope Replacement program, serve as a subject matter expert to the U.S. DOE Loan Programs Office, and am an NJDOT Dispute Resolution Board approved SME candidate. I hold a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Alexandria University.
We help you finish the project on time and within budget.
Licensed, approved and prequalified with major government agencies
Vanguard Resolve is licensed in New Jersey and New York, Cost-Basis Approved by NJDOT, and prequalified or registered with the public owners below.
Finish On Time and Within Budget
Delay claims are usually fought in shades of gray: competing schedule analyses and exhausting arguments among the owner, its consultants and the contractors. Vanguard Resolve moves these disputes to black and white, based on the record.
Every change, every year.
We identify changes in schedule statements, forensically test the schedule record, and look for double-dipping, the same delay or cost claimed more than once. We go back years to validate claims.
No claim is final.
Prior approvals are not the end of the story. If the record does not support a claim, amounts previously approved or paid can be revisited, subject to the contract and the law. A contractor that submits false or inflated claims may face False Claims Act liability.
Ab initio methodology.
We test each claim from the beginning of the record, not from the contractor’s narrative. We examine the claimant’s own conduct (late notice, working without reservation of rights, accepting payment) for waiver and equitable estoppel, defenses that can defeat or reduce a claim. Knowingly false claims can carry civil and, in serious cases, criminal consequences.
Law tied to CPM.
We connect 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733 directly to engineering CPM analysis (AACE RP 29R-03, Primavera P6), working alongside agency counsel.
“Public money belongs on public projects, not in padded claims. Vanguard Resolve will go back through the record, claim by claim, and test every one against the schedule, the contract and the law. We stand with public agencies against exaggerated and false construction claims, and we will help them crack down on waste and fraud.”
Seven services. One goal: your project finished on time and within budget.
Construction Management
Owner-side CM, contract administration and closeout.
Program Management
Program-level planning, delivery oversight, reporting and stakeholder coordination.
Construction Inspection
Field inspection and quality assurance with NJDOT-experienced, certified inspectors.
Project Controls
Integrated schedule, cost and reporting that keeps decision-makers informed.
Risk Management
Risk registers and quantitative cost / schedule risk modeling.
Construction Claims
Forensic delay analysis, entitlement review and claims defense or support.
Schedule & Cost Estimating
CPM schedule review and development, independent cost estimates.
Counties, towns, libraries, universities, airports and transportation agencies
As a New Jersey-certified MBE and SBE, Vanguard Resolve stands independent – you work directly with the firm’s principal and senior team.