GtAnalysis can provide the consulting expertise needed to substantially improve your position in obtaining a fair and equitable commissioning closure to your plant guarantees and operation.

Millions of dollars worth of overlooked, uncovered, and vague descriptions that are written into contracts occur all to often. Once they are not captured early the focus of building the plant becomes schedule and these items fall through the cracks.

What Are Some of the Important Items to Obtain Agreement on up Front?

There are a number of areas that information should be passed to the purchaser of plant equipment that later might reveal hidden problems or can be quite useful during your plant commissioning and start-up. For example such as factory test data, certain control input data, and selected measurements planned for your plant. GtAnalysis will consult and give your organization guidance on just some of the following subject areas.

• What data should you have up front on a contract signing?

• What should be in your plants test procedure, tolerances, and selected measurements used during testing?

• Testing your Plant - Is control set up properly, following the best procedures, expert witnessing.

• Plant Operation - Normal Practices, washes, fuel contaminants, etc.

• Guarantee results - Corrections, Shortfalls and Settling on Liquidated Damages?

These are again only a few examples of areas to watch out for, all to often important commissioning and guarantee procedures are vaguely specified. The pitfalls could easily be avoided with the proper guidance in consulting saving a lot of aggravation and costs later.