What is a MIDP?
The master information delivery plan (MIDP) is the plan of every information container a delivery team will produce on an ISO 19650 project: each model, drawing, schedule and report, who produces it, when it's due and what it must contain. The lead appointed party builds it by bringing together every task team's TIDP, checks that they fit together, and keeps it current as the project runs. It's set out in ISO 19650-2, and the UK BIM Framework's guidance on information delivery planning explains it in plain terms.
What goes in the MIDP template
One line per information container, and on every line:
- the container's name and title, following the project's naming convention;
- the task team that produces it, and the person responsible;
- its level of information need - how much geometry, data and documentation it carries;
- any predecessors or dependencies on other containers;
- its estimated production time;
- the information delivery milestone it's due at.
In Plannerly each line is also a file request, so delivered files land against the line they fulfil, and the line carries its own responsibility matrix roles.
MIDP or TIDP: which do you need?
Both. Each task team writes its TIDP for its own deliverables; the MIDP is all of them together, owned by the lead appointed party. In Plannerly they're the same records seen two ways - one team's lines, or every team's - so nothing is merged by hand. Our guide to the MIDP and TIDP goes deeper, and the MIDP use case shows the whole job.
