3.0 Key Principles and Objectives
3.1 In delivering the service, the Consultant integrates and works as part of a single commercial team which may include resources from the Client or Others.
3.2 The Consultant applies the following principles in delivery of the service to
- actively manage all contracts in place, including developing an integrated commercial management plan covering all obligations on the Client and its contracted partners for the duration of these contracts
- manage risks jointly, and not create a "them and us" culture.
- support the discovery/identification, and provide commercial challenge, of all risks and opportunities
- ensure that the early warning processes are proactively used across all contracts, including participation in risk reduction meetings
- ensure that a similar performance and incentive mechanism is cascaded through the supply base
- ensure that the Client has the right to audit throughout the supply chain.
- understand all tiers of the supply chain in delivery of the project or programme
- deliver a common mobilisation process for all suppliers through the commercial management arrangements
- be a data driven commercial organisation, with all the commercial and procurement data managed and shared through agreed data platforms.
- focus on supporting the delivery of innovation
- have a single accepted programme and baseline that is forecast to the end point of construction delivery and managed to this programme from a cost and time perspective.
- report Earned Value Management (EVM) through the Client's cost and schedule management systems, providing leading indicators to assess and forecast the current state of the project or programme.
- manage any obligations or commitments that Others have made at tender stage, and manage the delivery of these throughout that contract's life
- ensure the impact for any actual or potential change or early warning is known, including the impact on:
all interfacing contracts the customer health safety and wellbeing the programme - cost and schedule third party assets utility diversion programmes of work environment
- manage the commercial aspects of all utility contracts, including all contractual obligations in the integrated commercial management plan
- support the management of both quality and performance, to drive increasing higher performance of the overall project (or programme) teams and
- be accountable for the integrity of the commercial data.