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Collaborative contracting is alive and well, adapting to meet the changing policy landscape while continuing to tackle project complexity through relationship skill and enhanced productivity.

Public sector agency representatives are actively applying and developing the principles of collaborative contracting and shared their perspectives with local and overseas peers at the Alliancing Association of Australasia’s (AAA’s) 2011 national convention in Brisbane in October 2011. Alliancing practitioners related their experiences over the past twelve months in applying alliancing to meet the challenges of delivering difficult infrastructure projects, including in disaster torn
communities in Christchurch and Queensland.

Many are procuring projects through a mix of competitive and non-competitive selection processes in response to the new National Alliancing Contracting framework introduced this year by the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, the Hon Anthony Albenese. While some felt that the new guidelines are impeding traditional alliances, particularly in relation to the challenge of sharing information and collaborating with stakeholders within probity frameworks, others acknowledged the change has boosted other forms of collaborative contracting.Click here to download the full paper State of Alliancing