Contract management team members 

The key roles within the government party during contract management stages of a Partnerships Victoria project include: 

•  the senior responsible owner (the person with overall responsibility for the project and related services, and to whom the project director and contract director report. This term is used for consistency with gateway review terminology); 

•  the project director and the procurement team (during the procurement phase and construction phase);

•  the contract director (during the service delivery phase); and 

•  the contract management team (during the service delivery phase). 

Contract management team members need to have sufficient authority, in the form of delegations or otherwise, to fulfil their roles in managing contracts (delegations and authority are discussed in detail in Section 3.4 of this guide). 

The government party responsible for the project must:

•  nominate a State representative under the project deed as the primary interface with the private party;

•  identify the role of staff involved in administering the contract, particularly the actions contract management team members are required to undertake on behalf of the government party;

•  identify the source of authority of the contract management team members (for example, legislation or regulation, Ministerial delegation);

•  identify the scope of the authority of all staff involved in administering the contract;

•  determine whether existing forms of authority are sufficient for staff to carry out the tasks required to manage the contract; and

•  identify the capacity and flexibility with which the authority of contract management team members can be increased as the need arises or circumstances change.