The Collaborative Contracting branch of Transport for NSW manages a suite of contracts that includes commercial mechanisms for risk sharing, and gainshare/painshare. This is in stark contrast to design and construct contracts, which are often referred to as hard dollar contracts. Many of the projects administered by this area are program and project alliances that total several billion dollars. Projects that are particularly suited to collaborative style contracts are ones that have a high degree of complexity and/or uncertainty in relation to scope, cost or schedule.

 

Stonepath provided specialist commercial advisory services to the Collaborative Contracts branch of the Transport Projects Division within Transport for NSW.

 

The services included:

• monitoring and managing the performance of various project and program alliances being administered by Transport for NSW:

• monitoring the benefits of collaborative contracts within Transport for NSW

• development of the Direct Negotiation Guidelines for Transport for NSW

• development of the Value for Money Framework for Transport for NSW

• managing the process and probity of direct negotiations

• facilitating workshops with respect to scope definition, risk allocation and the development of a target outturn cost

• provision of advice with respect to the operation of alliance agreements (contracts)

• stakeholder engagement within Transport for NSW and with various alliance participants in the private sector.

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