2.2  Responsibility for developing the manual

The contract director is usually responsible for developing the contract administration manual. This appendix assumes that to be the case. In developing the manual, the contract director should:

•  determine information needing to be gathered;

•  identify the best sources of this information;

•  allocate responsibility for information collection;

•  coordinate and allocate drafting responsibility for relevant sections of the manual;

•  list information sources used to develop the contract administration manual;

•  determine which risk and contingency management tools and processes need to be developed, implemented and included in the contract administration manual;

•  liaise with external parties including: other contract directors; other members of departmental / agency PPP contract management teams; and DTF to peer review the contract administration manual; and

•  allocate version control responsibility for the contract administration manual.