The Owner remains responsible for the scope for which the alliance is responsible and for ascertaining any risk that the alliance does not take during the iterative TOC development process, through the Functional Specification and other parts of the PAA (refer to Chapter 4 for further details about the Functional Specification). The Owner must be particularly aware of the potential for over-scoping and over-designing in non-price TOC development processes. It is essential that the Owner clarifies that scope changes can only arise from direction from the Owner outside the alliance.
In ensuring that appropriate risks are shared by the alliance, the Owner will inform and participate in the risk management and quantitative analysis processes.
The Owner Participants in the TOC development stage will inform and may contribute to the development of the Project Solution subject to compliance with the selection process requirements and the probity plan. However, the Project design, construction, procurement and management solution is the responsibility of the Proponent until acceptance and then throughout the alliance.
Areas where the Owner can generally add particular value will be, for example, in communicating with other Owner personnel and groups, communication with external stakeholders and authorities, engineering, supervision, sources of materials, local knowledge, commissioning and in some instances, construction.
As noted in Chapter 4, the development of the Project Solution (and evolution of the alliance scope where appropriate) is an iterative process.
The Owner must ensure that the IP of all Proponents is protected throughout the TOC development process.