In order to identify potential candidates, a list of current and past alliance projects was obtained from the Alliancing Association of Australasia (AAA). The identified projects were filtered by the study team to meet the criteria of the study:
■ government alliancing projects procured within the last five years
■ valued over $100 million
■ either current or completed after 2004.
The survey was prepared and distributed to alliance leadership team (ALT) members of the selected projects via email.
A structured questionnaire approach was adopted, posing questions regarding:
■ name and composition of alliance (owner, designer, constructor and advisors)
■ alliance agreement format (project vs program alliance, and single vs multiple TOC)
■ perceived alliance performance based on reported project outcomes of time, cost, quality of work, functionality, safety, environment, community, other stakeholders, team dynamics, KRA achievement, and flexibility of approach
■ TOC comparison (initial, final and actual)
■ project duration comparison (initial, final and actual)
■ activities undertaken prior to selecting an alliance
■ successful outcome indicators
■ the possibility of using an alternative delivery method
■ the use of cost criteria in the evaluation.
Refer to Appendix A for the full survey template.