Reviews include interviews with significant project stakeholders and the examination of project documents. Review Teams assess the progress of projects against seven criteria:
• Service delivery;
• Affordability - value for money;
• Sustainability;
• Governance;
• Risk management;
• Stakeholder management; and
• Change management.
Reviews are conducted in accordance with the Gateway Review Toolkit and Reviewer Workbooks30. An overview of the typical Gateway Review and Health Check process is at Attachment F.
Infrastructure NSW will develop Terms of Reference for a Review in consultation with the responsible delivery agency and key stakeholders. The Terms of Reference are used to guide the selection of appropriate reviewers and will be provided to reviewers in advance of the Review.
The governance and oversight of a project/program ordinarily includes three major parties: a 'sponsor', 'deliverer' and 'asset owner/manager or operator'. These parties may come from within the same organisation.
Good governance and project/program assurance calls for the need to have an individual as the single point of accountability and strategic responsibility; the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO). The SRO may come from within the 'sponsor', 'deliverer' or 'asset manager/owner or operator' organisation. This is further outlined in Attachment B.
To enable a successful Review to take place, the delivery agency must identify each of the parties performing the role of 'sponsor', 'deliverer' and 'asset owner/manager or operator', as well as the individual SRO. It is essential that the delivery agency's SRO participates in the Gateway Review process.
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30 The Gateway Review Toolkit and Reviewer Workbooks are currently provided at https://www.procurepoint.nsw.gov.au/policies/overview-gateway-review-system. The documents were produced by NSW Treasury and will be reviewed and updated by Infrastructure NSW.