Use this activity to connect project activities to contract line items. Connecting activities to items serve several purposes. It makes it possible to identify the project activities which are used to execute the contract, to retrieve estimated, planned or baseline cost as a part of the contract estimating, and also to retrieve progress and accumulated cost to use as basis for doing applications for payment. One or several activities can be connected to a contract line item.
In cases where the project activities are used to do estimating, the activity cost can be retrieved from the estimated, planned or baseline cost. This cost will then appear on the contract items for which these activities are connected.
When doing applications for payment the connected project activities can be used to assess the work performed to date by retrieving the progress and accumulated cost from the connected project activities.
Notice that the connection is for the contract and not for the contract revision; so an activity connected to an item will be valid for the same item on any revision. Even when using applications for payments the activities connected can be changed at any time. The connection is for information purposes only and is used as a tool to value the item progress on the applications, by looking at the activity progress.