Applying financial planning methodologies is essential in capital asset management to extend facility and infrastructure life cycles, lower annual funding requirements, and decrease operation and maintenance costs. Our capital asset management professionals develop comprehensive investment strategies and funding plans based on total cost of ownership, condition and asset utilization assessments, and prioritization based on mission dependency indexing.

The Mission Dependency Index (MDI) is a simple metric that links facilities to the organization’s mission - similar to the private sector’s metric of profitability. The MDI addresses real property centric issues of interruptability, relocatability, and replaceabilty. Our capital asset professionals offer a reliable MDI service to our government clients through objective interviews with decision makers, quantitative data analysis and scoring, and reporting with visual color coding. Through our support, agencies prioritize their real property investments and identify divesture opportunities to meet requirements in the reduction of their overall capital asset spending.

Often, facilities managers lack the resources to maintain detailed data on the condition of their facilities and infrastructure systems. Yet this accurate information forms the foundation for ensuring smooth operations and planning for future needs. Our professionals augment our client teams to provide a range of facility condition assessment (FCA) services designed to collect the critical condition information and accurately estimate the associated costs for repair, renewal and code compliance to support missions. Our detailed FCA determines cost liabilities to address current operational requirements; calculates key performance indicators such as Facility Condition Index (FCI), current and plant replacement values, and sustainment rates; and assesses capital funding scenarios as part of capital project planning efforts.

Capital asset management has evolved from a discipline focused on individual buildings to one focused on the total performance of a portfolio of facilities and infrastructure systems in support of an organization’s overall mission. To make informed decisions regarding how best to optimize the existing inventory of buildings, asset utilization assessments help to quantify the actual usage of space as a basis for making future investment and divestiture decisions. At MOCA, we provide asset utilization assessment studies and calculate performance indicators such as asset utilization indexes to measure the facility portfolio against mission requirements.

Computer-aided facility management systems and databases provide the ability to manage facility drawings and information in a database environment, allowing facilities managers to access and update in a more streamlined and efficient manner. At MOCA, we help clients use technology to develop more effective facility management systems for their maintenance work requests, assignment of work to maintenance staff and vendors, and database records management. And as BIM starts to reach the facility management phase, we believe the vision of lifecycle data management is becoming realistic.