124 SOPs. One subscription. A fraction of the cost.
If you commissioned 124 operational project controls SOPs from a consulting firm at market rates, R 15,000 to R 40,000 per SOP, you would spend between R 1.86 million and R 4.96 million.
That is before you factor in the time to scope, draft, review, iterate, and sign off each document. At a senior project controls rate, that process takes months.
ScheduleIQ SOP Library: R 120,000 per year
That is a 10 to 40 times value multiple on day one.
And unlike a commissioned methodology, the library is already built, already tested against AACE and PMI standards, and already derived from the procedures used on real projects at Barrick, Glencore, and Sasol.
The gap in the market
You can buy scheduling software. You can buy benchmarking tools. You can hire a Big 4 firm to write your procedures for a fee that runs into the millions.
But you cannot buy the procedures themselves. Nobody sells them.
AACE gives you Recommended Practices, what good looks like. PMI gives you Practice Standards, the framework. What you do not get from either is a set of operational SOPs you can hand to your project controls team and say: this is how we do it.
The major mining houses solved this problem by building their own Project Management Frameworks over decades. Barrick's CPS4. Glencore's Capital Management Framework. Sasol's Tier 4 planning QMS.
Smaller organisations, mid-tier miners, EPCM boutiques, owner's teams, they either commission a consulting firm to build a methodology (expensive, slow) or they rely on individuals' experience and institutional knowledge (fragile, inconsistent).
That is the gap ScheduleIQ SOP Library fills
124 SOPs across 15 domains. Available by subscription.
There are 325 organisations in the mining and resources space that should have a documented project controls methodology. Most of them do not, because building one has always been too expensive and too slow.
That is no longer the reason.
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12 of our SOPs are available free at faolanconsulting.com/scheduleiq, no account required. The full library of 124 SOPs is available by annual subscription.
This article is part of the ScheduleIQ SOP Library launch series. For more on project controls methodology and operational standards, follow Morne Beeslaar on LinkedIn.