Claims Analysis.
When a project goes sideways, the owner needs an analyst, not a cheerleader. APSI's claims practice provides forensic schedule and cost analysis, REA evaluation, and expert support that holds up under cross-examination. And when we come in early enough, there is no claim at all.
On the owner's side of the table.
Most contractors submit a claim because their cost report says they're losing money, not because the contract entitles them to recovery. APSI's claims practice separates the two, fast. We analyze the schedule, the contemporaneous record, and the cost basis with the same forensic rigor a court or board of contract appeals will apply.
APSI has supported owners through differing site conditions claims, delay and disruption disputes, acceleration demands, scope changes, and termination actions. The projects have ranged from federal courthouses and historic restorations to port infrastructure, water utilities, and detention facilities. The methodology is the same regardless of the sector: forensic rigor from the first document review to the last day of testimony.
Core Claims Capabilities
Windows analysis, time-impact analysis, as-planned vs as-built, and collapsed as-built methodologies aligned to AACE Recommended Practice 29R-03. The analysis is built to survive a deposition, not just to support a settlement position.
Bring us in before claims crystallize. Real-time documentation discipline, contemporaneous notice protocols, and dispute resolution support that prevents litigation from developing in the first place. This is the work we are most proud of because the best claims outcome is no claim.
Quantification of compensable, non-compensable, and concurrent delay. Productivity loss analysis using measured-mile, earned-value, and industry benchmark methods. We separate what the contract supports from what the cost report says.
Independent review of contractor REAs covering entitlement, causation, and quantum for federal and public agency clients. Most REAs overstate entitlement on at least one of those three elements. We find it before the owner signs.
Type I and Type II DSC analysis: contract baseline conditions against actual site conditions, technical evaluation, and damages calculation. The factual record is everything in a DSC dispute and we build it from the contemporaneous documents, not from memory.
Expert reports, deposition preparation, mediation support, and testimony in federal court, state court, and boards of contract appeals. Written and oral work product built to the standard a seasoned litigator will rely on.
A repeatable, audit-ready playbook.
Rapid assessment of the contract documents, schedule history, RFI and change record, and the actual basis of the claim. The owner gets an honest read within two weeks, including what the claim is worth and what it is not.
Forensic schedule analysis, cost analysis, and entitlement review conducted to the standard a fact-finder will apply. We do not build the analysis to support a position. We build it to reflect what the record shows.
Develop the owner's response: counter-analysis, settlement position, or litigation strategy. Every document produced at this stage is written as if it will be read by a judge, because it might be.
Mediation, arbitration, board of contract appeals, or federal court. Expert reports and testimony prepared to survive cross-examination by experienced construction litigators.
Where we've done this work.
$6.4M contractor claim resolved at $5.8M. Forensic schedule and entitlement analysis carried the negotiation.
$11.1M contractor claim resolved at $7.6M. $3.5M in unsupported entitlement removed through forensic review.
$11M contractor claim resolved at $7.7M. $3.3M removed through documented schedule and damages analysis.
$900K contractor claim avoided entirely. The owner paid nothing on the strength of the contemporaneous record and our forensic schedule analysis.
$3.1M saved at mediation against a $5.1M Design-Build Entity claim. The DBE recovered only 40% of the amount claimed.
Continuous claims and disputes support across decades of complex waterfront construction.
Hire the team owners trust to fix it.
- · GSA OASIS SB Pool 1
- · GSA Schedule
- · Direct contract / on-call MSA
- We have prevented far more claims than we have defended. Bring us in early and the most likely outcome is no dispute at all.
- Exclusively owner-side. We do not work for plaintiff contractors. Owners can retain us on an on-call basis without any conflict of interest.
- Forensic scheduling kept in-house. The team that knows your schedule history is the team doing the delay analysis. There is no learning curve when a claim arrives.
- AACE-aligned methodology with federal contracting fluency. Our reports are written to translate cleanly to the FAR, the Contract Disputes Act, and ASBCA and CBCA standards.
Facing a claim or watching one develop?
Tell us where the project stands. We will give you a straight read on the entitlement, what the record supports, and what the owner's best position looks like from here.