Run DCMA compliance checks
via REST API

What is the DCMA 14-Point Schedule Assessment?

A standardised schedule quality check used on government, defense, and large infrastructure projects worldwide.

The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) published 14 quantitative checks that determine whether a project schedule is reliable enough to use for decision-making. Each check tests for a specific scheduling pathology — missing logic, excessive constraints, unrealistic durations — and reports a percentage against a defined threshold.

A schedule that fails these checks has logic problems that make its dates untrustworthy. DCMA compliance is mandatory on US federal contracts, and widely required by major clients in construction, oil & gas, and infrastructure projects globally.

Historically, running these checks required a desktop application like Steelray Analyzer, Acumen Fuse, or ScheduleReader PRO — $344–$990 per user per year, Windows-only, no programmatic output. This API exposes the same checks as a REST endpoint with structured JSON results.

Using the DCMA check via API

Add ?dcma=true to your parse request. Available on Professional, Business, and Enterprise tiers.

curl -X POST "https://p6parser.com/parse?dcma=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  --data-binary "@schedule.xer"

The dcma object is added to the response alongside the parsed schedule data:

{
  "schedule_summary": { ... },
  "activities": [ ... ],
  "dcma": {
    "overall_score":  78,
    "overall_passed": false,
    "checks": [
      {
        "check_id":            1,
        "name":                "Logic",
        "passed":             true,
        "percent":            2.1,
        "threshold":          5,
        "count":              18,
        "total":              847,
        "failing_activity_ids": ["A1055", "A2010"]
      },
      {
        "check_id":            7,
        "name":                "Negative Float",
        "passed":             false,
        "percent":            8.4,
        "threshold":          0,
        "count":              71,
        "total":              847,
        "failing_activity_ids": ["A3010", "A3011", /* ... */]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Not sure yet? Free tier gives you 50 parses — test with your own files first.