Cost Analysis Highlights
Summit Engineering Group (SEG) brings a wealth of individual and corporate experience to cost, financial, and price analyses for projects. SEG experience runs the gamut from large, very detailed Life Cycle Cost (LCC) estimates to short-term budget estimates. SEG frequently bridges the traditional gap that exists between engineers and cost analysts by fully understanding the technologies involved, bringing a systems engineering approach to the process, and rigorously maintaining consistency in assumptions between technical baselines and the cost analysis products.
| • | Cost and Price Analysis - Evaluating the realism of cost and pricing efforts, identifying disconnects, assessing staffing assumptions, and making final determinations on reasonability. |
| • | Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Estimates - Creating cost ground rules and assumptions, tying cost to a specified system configuration, structuring a LCC estimate to facilitate dynamic evaluation of alternative procurement strategies, and demonstrating Total Ownership Cost (TOC). |
| Cost Analysis Capabilities | ||
Activity Based Costing (ABC) |
Cost Analysis Requirements Description (CARD) |
Independent Cost Estimates |
Bill of Material (BOM) Assessments |
Cost As Independent Variable (CAIV) |
Labor (Direct & Indirect) Analyses |
Budget Analysis & Formulation |
Cost Research (Data basing & Modeling) |
Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Analyses |
CER Development & Validation |
Cost-Effectiveness Modeling/Analysis |
Military System Cost Modeling/Analysis |
Cost & Benefit Analyses (CBAs) |
Design-to-Cost (DTC) |
Price Analysis |
Cost & Performance Tradeoff Analyses |
Earned Value Management (EVM) |
Price-to-Win (PTW) Analysis |
Cost Analysis & Estimating |
Hardware Cost Analysis & Estimating |
Software Cost Analysis & Estimating |
Key Benefits
| • Disciplined approach provides an audit trail on key cost assumptions and cost drivers |
| • Provides critical component for cost/effectiveness analysis |
| • Helps decision-makers understand key cost drivers and their associated risk factors |
Representative Projects
| • Counter-MANPADS |
| • FOENEX |
| • HELLADS |
| • ICP |
| • IPCM |
| • ISIS |
| • MAINGATE |
| • Manhattan II |
| • M&M |
| • SST |
