1.2  Confirm contract management roles and responsibilities

It is important that you know who is responsible for key contract management activities and that you allocate appropriate resourcing to the contract.

Key steps in this activity include:

a.

Review the contract to identify who the nominated Commonwealth and supplier representatives are under the contract and what responsibilities they have.

b.

Agree roles and responsibilities of contract management team.

c.

Document appropriate delegates and authorised officers consistent with the contract terms.

d.

Confirm the account manager, operations manager, authorised officer etc. for the supplier.

e.

Confirm specialist advisers (procurement, legal, technical, operational).

f.

Identify stakeholders and end-users. Who is going to accept/own the goods or services?

g.

Determine whether any training or other capability development is required for key people to be able to perform their contract management roles (this may have been done in Phase 0).

h.

Include relevant information in your contract management plan (see step 0.1).