42. The project team will need to provide the following documentation as part of the Stage 2 assessment:
∙ Viability, Desirability and Achievability questions answered and the overall position signed off by the project team for each heading.
∙ Questions to Soft Services assessment answered highlighting whether or not the overall benefits of including soft services in PFI outweigh any additional costs and constraints.
∙ A table listing the assumptions behind each of the spreadsheet inputs. Where there is a lack of supporting evidence this should be stated and the method used to approximate the input detailed.
∙ A table setting out the key scenarios run for the project spreadsheet and the reasoning behind these.
∙ Analysis of the quantitative spreadsheet outputs and conclusions.
∙ A table setting out the reasoning behind changes made from the Stage 1 analysis.
∙ An updated affordability calculation and an assurance that the project specification falls within this.