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The Contractual Baseline Schedule represents the target schedule in compliance to contractual milestones and finish dates. The baseline schedule is a fixed project schedule. It is the standard by which project performance is measured. The original schedule is copied into the baseline schedule which remains frozen until it is reset. Resetting the baseline is done when the scope of the project has been changed significantly, for example after a negotiated change. At that point, the original or current baseline becomes invalid and should not be compared with the current schedule.

The DD of the baseline shall be the date for which the revision is valid, prior to this date you might have actuals for the record but after this date it is a new schedule. If your plans have to be modified to recover time, to reflect significant changes in the scope of work or any other valid reason you might even delete or add new activities. The purpose is not merely to add resources and keep the plan intact, a schedule is dynamic, the Owner have a right to know, but the Contractor keeps the right to plan.

Note that some contract use a different language to define Baselines, some only use the term Baseline to describe only the first approved one and thereafter call them Schedule Revisions. Beware that an Update Schedule is different from a Baseline or a Schedule Revision.

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