2.4  Relationship with Policy and other Guidance Notes

This Guidance Note is one of a suite of related National Alliance Contracting documents5 that are specific to alliance contracting as illustrated in Figure 1 and outlined below:

•  the Policy Principles-which sets out the minimum (mandated) requirements for alliance contracting

•  the Guide;

•  this Guidance Note-which provides a detailed working of some concepts and principles presented in Chapter 5 of the Guide;

•  other Guidance Notes; and

•  all relevant general (non-alliance specific) government policies and guidelines that have been approved in each jurisdiction, such as those relating to probity, tendering processes, Business Case development, procurement and cost management.

Figure 1: Hierarchy of planning and delivery steps in a project alliance

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5 Published on the Department of Infrastructure and Transport, Commonwealth of Australia, website: www.infrastructure.gov.au.