As part of the Transition Plan, the Authority will need to consider how the team's resource requirements will vary over time as the project proceeds through the following stages:
• the period when the Contractor seeks a Satisfactory Planning Permission;
• the construction period;
• the commissioning period;
• the first 12-15 months of the operational period;
• periodic benchmarking and market testing exercises; and
• preparations for Contract expiry.
If flexibility can be built into the Contract Management Team's structure the Authority will be able to achieve both cost minimisation and adequacy of resourcing regardless of the inevitable peaks and troughs in the demands on the team.