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ACE 463L Planning guide
Who Makes the Facility Continuity Decision?
A continuity plan becomes easier to act on when the organization knows who can make each decision. Operations, facilities, procurement and leadership may all have a role in putting temporary space to work. Bringing those roles together before a disruption gives the team a clearer path from a need for space to a usable facility.
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Define the decision the team is preparing to make
Choose a concrete scenario, such as losing an office, relocating a clinical service or moving a fire crew during construction. Identify the work that must continue and the point at which the current location would no longer support it.
Describe the first usable temporary arrangement. A leadership team can evaluate a defined set of functions, people and equipment more clearly than an open-ended request for emergency capacity.
Assign authority and responsibility separately
Name the person who can authorize the project or activate an existing arrangement. Then identify the people responsible for site preparation, facility specification, transport, connections and operational acceptance.
Record who needs to be consulted and what information each decision requires. This can include the current layout, site access, proposed schedule and supplied-equipment responsibilities.
Keep the options concrete
For each option, establish its availability, scope and prerequisites. Ownership brings storage, transport and maintenance responsibilities. A third-party arrangement needs clear terms for requesting space and confirming what can be supplied.
FORTS can help develop a shelter or configured facility proposal around the intended work. Compare the proposed package with the equipment and services the organization will provide.
Review the handover before activation
Agree on what each team needs to receive before it starts work. Site access may precede delivery; connections and equipment setup follow placement; the operating team defines its acceptance requirements.
Use a tabletop exercise to test the decision sequence. Record gaps, assign an owner to each action and keep the resulting brief with the people who would use it. For a new FORTS project, bring the intended use, location, team size and timing into the first discussion.
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