The documents listed below range from comprehensive guidelines to advisory notes on smaller scale specific issues.
• the Guidance Material, Overview was updated in July 200687 and summarises key Partnerships Victoria principles and outlines the key detailed guidance material documents.
• the Practitioners Guide was created in June 2001 and addresses the what, why and how questions in relation to Partnerships Victoria projects, and sets out the approach to key commercial issues (for example payment structures and bid evaluation) and public process issues (for example public interest test, probity and disclosure).
• Risk Allocation and Contractual Issues was also developed in June 2001 and outlines the background methodology for risk allocation, describes major types of project risks and contractual issues, and sets out the government preferred approach for each. The Standard Commercial Principles document is also referred to (see below).
• Contract Management Guide was prepared in June 2003 and provides guidance on contract management issues throughout the lifecycle of a Partnerships Victoria project.
• Standard Commercial Principles, developed in June 2005 details the current considered position of the state in relation to Partnerships Victoria risk allocation.
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87 Original overview was released in June 2001 with the first set of Partnerships Victoria guidance material