The Guide outlines the importance of Owner participation in project delivery and highlights its obligation to hold the project accountable with good governance arrangements and supporting practices.
In the context of the expenditure of public funds, the alliance has a particular obligation to ensure they are expended prudently, properly and wisely including addressing public accountability scrutiny and issues that may arise for the Owner.
Owners should strive to have a deep knowledge and understanding of cost management and procurement practices used by the NOPs and how they may impact on Owner's obligations under government procurement standards. Due to the transparent nature of cost reimbursement in alliance project delivery, Owners should seek to provide the alliance with a commercial manager who understands public sector standards of expenditure. Two specific areas for the attention of the Commercial Manager are:
• managing the supply chain; and
• guardianship of public funds.