BIM execution plan (BEP)

CurrentBEP

Also: BxP, Pre-appointment BEP, Post-appointment BEP

The delivery team's plan explaining how it will carry out the information-management aspects of an appointment, in response to the exchange information requirements.

Explanation

Under ISO 19650-2 a prospective lead appointed party prepares a pre-appointment BEP with its tender response, demonstrating its proposed approach, capability and capacity. After appointment it is confirmed and developed with the full delivery team. Typical contents include: information management roles; the delivery team's information delivery strategy; the federation strategy and information container breakdown; the high-level Responsibility matrix; methods, procedures and standards; the proposed software and schema; and the strategy for using the Common data environment. The BEP works alongside the Master information delivery plan, which schedules the actual deliverables.

In North America, "BEP" is also widely used outside ISO 19650 contexts, often following templates from industry groups; content overlaps but terminology differs.

Practical example

On a design-build water treatment plant, the design-builder submits a pre-appointment BEP explaining that each process area will be a separate model, that coordination runs weekly with BCF issue tracking, and that the owner's asset tagging standard will be applied from 66% design. After award the BEP is updated with named individuals and subconsultants.

Why it matters

The BEP is how an appointing party evaluates whether a team can actually meet its information requirements, and later it is the agreed reference when disputes arise about methods or responsibilities.

Common confusion

The BEP is not the delivery schedule. Dates and individual information containers belong in the TIDPs and MIDP. Some guidance (for example a Hong Kong government mapping of BS 1192 to ISO 19650 terms) groups these under "information delivery plan".

Standards and references

  1. ISO 19650-2:2018 — Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM) — Information management using building information modelling — Part 2: Delivery phase of the assets. ISO, 2018. Clause 5.3 (tender response) and 5.4 (appointment).Original VDC Stack.io wording, based on the standard
    Supports: Pre-appointment BEP with tender response; confirmation after appointment; typical contents · Status: Stage 90.92 (to be revised). Revision ISO/DIS 19650-2 at stage 40.93 on 2026-08-18 (decision for new DIS ballot).
  2. Guidance Part 2: Processes for Project Delivery. UK BIM Framework (UK BIM Alliance, BSI, CDBB), 2020.Widely accepted professional interpretation
    Supports: Practical BEP content and relationship to MIDP
  3. BIM Harmonisation Guidelines for Works Departments — Appendix I: ISO 19650 Terminologies (v2). Development Bureau, Government of the Hong Kong SAR.Widely accepted professional interpretation
    Supports: Government mapping of BIM execution plan terminology

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