For public-sector program leaders

Bring quantified confidence to public-sector program decisions

Government IT and infrastructure programs face intense scrutiny and a poor track record on budget and schedule. Incertive turns your plan into a defensible success probability, with the risks and mitigations quantified — evidence you can put in front of stakeholders.

45%

average budget overrun on large IT projects — while delivering 56% less value than predicted

Source: McKinsey & University of Oxford
$100B+

annual U.S. federal IT spend that “too frequently” fails to deliver on time and on budget

Source: U.S. GAO High-Risk Series (2025)

What Incertive quantifies for these projects

Requirements and scope volatility

Shifting requirements are a leading cause of public-sector overruns. Incertive models undefined scope as a quantified uncertainty rather than a fixed assumption.

Vendor and procurement timelines

Procurement cycles and vendor performance introduce delay risk. A sensitivity analysis ranks their impact on your delivery date.

Stakeholder and approval dependencies

Multiple approval gates and stakeholders compound schedule risk. The analysis shows how much they widen your range of outcomes.

A worked example

Agency case-management system replacement

An agency plans a two-year system replacement with partially defined requirements, a single prime vendor, and several approval gates.

43%success probability
HIGH RISK

Takeaway: Undefined requirements and the single-vendor dependency drive most of the risk. A discovery phase to firm up the hardest requirements, plus a defined vendor SLA, materially improves the odds before a dollar is committed to build.

Illustrative example. Sign up to run a real analysis on your own project.

Before you commit, know

A defensible success probability you can present to oversight
Which requirements or approvals carry the most schedule risk
The realistic range of cost and timeline outcomes
Whether phasing the program improves the odds of delivering value

Know before you commit

Get a success probability, the top risks, and the highest-impact improvements for your project — in under 60 seconds.

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