Establishing efficient governance arrangements with the private sector party is essential to effective contract management, and promotes a good business relationship with the private party. Relationship management is addressed in further detail in section 4.2 of this guide.
The more recent project deeds set out in some detail the governance arrangements to apply between the parties. These arrangements include:
• nominating the State representative and private party representatives and their respective responsibilities. The State representative will generally be the project director during the construction phase and the contract director during the service delivery phase;
• nominating other key government and private party personnel who have responsibilities set out in the project deed (and other project contracts) (e.g. the prison governor, in a Partnerships Victoria correctional services contract); and
• inter-party committees, their membership, functions and frequency of meeting, such as the senior representative group and the project control group (refer to section 4.2).