Budgeting for Contract Monitoring at FBC

2.2 Authorities will need to revisit and refine estimates of contract monitoring at Final Business Case (FBC) stage, in the light of any self-monitoring arrangements actually agreed with the preferred bidder. They should provide full details in the FBC as to how the contract monitoring will be delivered. This should include information on:

• arrangements for staffing and resource monitoring during the construction phase;

• arrangements for day to day contract management;

• staffing responsibilities during operation;

• skills and experience of the monitoring team;

• governance arrangements for the construction and operational phases;

• role of users, other stakeholders and their interface with the contract management team;

• the communications strategy;

• information on staff transfer arrangements;

• arrangements for the Authority's internal auditing of the project; and

• review of services specification and arrangements for either market testing or benchmarking.