Issues of relevance to the resourcing of contract administration for Partnerships Victoria projects are discussed in Chapter 3 of the Partnerships Victoria Contract management guide. The contract administration manual should identify staffing positions allocated to manage the contract and the relevant roles and responsibilities of each position. This can be done by developing position descriptions for each role in the contract management team and ensuring that those position descriptions together allocate responsibility for all tasks to the contract management team. The position descriptions should be included in the contract administration manual.
The team needs a mix of skills to cover the range of tasks and sufficient flexibility to be able to respond to time-critical or material risks that may arise over the project lifecycle. Succession planning arrangements also should be addressed.