Alliancing is a complex commercial transaction and the Owner needs to give due consideration to these complexities, in the context of the prevailing market conditions, to ensure that the selection process is appropriate for the particular project.
As noted in Chapter 3, the projects most suited to alliance contracting will often have risks which cannot be defined or dimensioned and this means that for some alliance contracts some of the elements of the Project Proposal are unable to be fully developed prior to selecting the NOPs. This is consistent with projects best suited to alliancing that will often have unique or extraordinary challenges that should be approached on a case-by-case basis rather than on the assumption that 'one size fits all', particularly in relation to the selection process.