5.1 Contract management

The contract management stage involves a series of steps summarised in Chart 11. During the implementation of the PPP project, the public contracting authority should ensure the following:

□  separation of project management and contract management responsibilities;

□  provision of the contract management team with clearly defined responsibilities and sufficient resources; and

□  establishment of management rules to deal with PPP contract monitoring, adjustment to the contract and dispute resolution to maintain contract integrity.

Although good preparation and procurement of a PPP project are important, the way the PPP contract is overseen and managed during implementation is critical to its success or failure - and to the ultimate determination of Value for Money.

The rest of this section develops the rationale and contents of the activities that the public authority will carry out during the implementation of the PPP.