Preconstruction Activities / Pre-Operation Activities This is the Stage where someone needs to be placed in charge of the SIMOPS Identification and this person is to look diligently through the schedules to make sure that everyone is forewarned about upcoming SIMOPS – The earlier the warning, the more time to plan and work them out. Additionally, all vessel information, along with their DP operations, should be collected during the bid stage should be passed to the person heading up the SIMOPS portion of the project. At the pre-construction stage, an overall planned schedule of vessels and operations along with all project maps should be created. Anew detailed schedule should be made now of how things stand and it should be more specific than the one in Table 1. Table 3 shown below, is abetter example of what this schedule should look like. August - Year 1 September -Year 1 Task 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20