A Modernized Project Planning System for High-Growth Government Contractors

This Rapid Results Pack (RRP) for Deltek Costpoint includes out-of-the-box workforce and cost planning that allows government contractors to: 

• Simplify the collection of Labor, ODC, and indirect cost for planning
• Set up any number of planning scenarios
• Calculate forward indirect rates based on project forecasts
• Run PSR’s for future periods based on our project forecasts
• Forecast and monitor your unloaded and fully loaded wrap rates
• Monitor utilization rates to planned labor forecasts
• Comprehensive data model that can rapidly produce the ICE schedule

Tackling project management challenges is the status quo for government contractors. However, the government is tightening up systems to prove it is protecting taxpayer dollars. This means your project accounting, planning, & forecasting systems need to be more meticulous than ever before.

Project forecasting and reporting compliance can be overwhelming, often requiring far too much overhead to maintain. Those that can simplify the process have an advantage in winning and maintaining government contracts. And to achieve that, building an integrated tool set is the definite route to gaining that edge.   

This RRP showcases a comprehensive planning solution, purpose-built for Government Contractors using Deltek Costpoint to plan their projects. Built by Kootio and powered by Acterys, it allows performing workforce planning, project planning, & labor planning, blazing through all these planning processes at record speed while ensuring the data is highly secured using the Power BI ecosystem. 

Within this Government Contractors RRP, you’ll find: 

• Intuitive planning input interfaces for Revenue, Labor, ODCs, and Indirect Costs
• Indirect Allocation process that mimics your existing Costpoint pool setups
• Your existing Costpoint report formats presented in Power BI for easy consumption
• PSRs that can be run for future periods including indirect cost allocations
• Ability to access an underlying data model via Excel to facilitate easy end user reporting vs. complex Cognos reporting
• Labor Utilization Rate reports, allowing you to peer into how contractual employees are performing, from both direct labor and indirect labor standpoint 
• Scenario planning with the ability to copy a single report and use it for building multiple scenarios for what-if planning 
• Revenue Pipeline Planning for existing and future projects with integration to the New Hire module to forecast cost and revenue accurately