Government agencies or departments that deliver capital works often have many departments and/or related entities that affect and are affected by capital works including environmental management, safety management, engineering, quality assurance, maintenance, operations, communications, specialist designer/supplier/installer groups for technologies and also internal authority groups.
The Owner must decide in advance how each of these groups is to be involved in the alliance. The main three alternatives are:
• active participation and risk sharing;
• documentation of requirements through Owner's Functional Requirements or the PAA;
• treatment as external stakeholders with risk taken by the alliance except for any specific risk that is retained by the Owner (not preferred); or
• treatment as a statutory authority.
Having made this decision, the Owner can then determine the appropriate participation of those stakeholders in the TOC development process.