1.42 The Mortimer stream of the Strategic Reform Program includes improvements to DMO's acquisition strategy development process during the requirements phase of the capability systems life cycle. To support this improvement activity, an early exposure draft of the DMO's new Acquisition and Support Implementation Strategy (ASIS) development guidance was released for comment in June 2011. The complete set of ASIS guidance and supporting training is scheduled for release in March 2012.
1.43 Projects are also starting to include provision in their First Pass approval documentation to fund risk reduction activities (Offer Definition) with preferred tenderer(s) in strategic-level acquisitions. This risk reduction activity, early in the Offer Definition stage, requires DMO projects and their preferred tenderer(s) to undertake a thorough examination of assumptions and estimates to reduce project risks and to improve the viability of schedules prior to contract commitment by the Commonwealth. Milestone entry criteria and performance remedies in the ASDEFCON templates are also being adjusted to promote earlier visibility of schedule performance variances and to incentivise better schedule performance by the contractor.