4.2.  IDENTIFY AND MANAGE RISKS

Risks to the effective entity arrangements for managing contracts are likely to arise from the following sources:

Sources of risk

Examples of risks

Roles and responsibilities

  Unclear and/or misunderstood roles and responsibilities for aspects of contract management

•  Absence of required contract delegations

Systems, procedures and guidance

•  Multiple systems that are not integrated and/or require multiple entry of the same data

•  Systems that are not supported by appropriate procedures and or guidance material

•  Different systems containing incomplete and/or conflicting contract data

Procurement knowledge and capability

•  A lack of understanding of government and/or entity procurement policies and reporting requirements

•  A lack of experience in the management of contracts

•  A lack of targeted training of procurement activities