Contingency Plan Templates (MS Word + Excel)

This template pack includes a 20-page Contingency Plan Template in MS Word, and 9 Excel spreadsheets. You can use this template to write your first contingency plan. It includes helpful explanatory text that walks you through the process of setting up your first contingency plan project. You can change everything in the document – text, images, and tables. There are no special plug-ins, macros, or installation files. Just download the templates and get started.

Table of Contents

The Table of Contents of this Contingency Plan template is as follows:

1. Introduction
1.1. Document Overview
1.2. Purpose
1.3. Applicability
1.4. Scope
1.4.1. Planning Principles
1.4.2. Assumptions
1.5. Relationship to other plans

2. Concept of Operations
2.1. System Description
2.2. Line of Succession
2.3. Responsibilities
2.4. Testing and Maintenance
2.4.1. Tabletop Testing
2.4.2. Technical Testing

3. Notification and Activation Phase

4. Recovery Operations
4.1. Recovery Goal #1
4.2. Recovery Goal #2
4.3. Recovery Goal #3

5. Return to Normal Operations
5.1. Original or New Site Restoration
5.2. Concurrent Processing
5.3. Plan Deactivation

6. Appendix A: Contingency Plan Approval

7. Appendix B: Definitions
7.1. Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations

MS Word Templates and Forms

Her are some examples of the MS Word templates and forms that you’ll get in the download file.

This is the cover page, documentation conventions and guidelines, and legal text.

Here we have the first chapter of the Contingency Plan. You can change these levels if you wish.

The Recovery Operations chapter

This chapter shows you how the text, tables, and bullet lists are presented.

You can see from this that we use white space to make the document more readable.