Contract and Procurement Management for Royal Adelaide Hospital

Contracts and Procurement

Table of contents
Part 1: Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Part 2................................................................................................................................................4
Part 3................................................................................................................................................5
Part 4: Summary..............................................................................................................................6
Reference list...................................................................................................................................9

Part 1: Introduction
The project of Royal Adelaide Hospital is one of the largest infrastructure social projects. The
New RAH is to be built, financed, provided with services which are non-medical and maintained
with equipment using PPP (Public-private Partnership) arrangement. The project is generalized
one in terms of cost, complexity, scale, importance in providing sustainable and enhanced
services over health care to people of South Australia. In order to ensure that the State has a
sustainable and responsive health system, some parts of the reform program are formed by RAH
for the future.
In order to process the successful delivery of this project programs to establish effective
management and establishing governance arrangements are done. It is important that efficient
and effective management along-with processes and decision-making systems are revised and
reviewed regularly throughout the project life cycle. This review of the project should continue
throughout the life cycle(Barrett, 2016).
The State has established this phase of the review where the focus is on the status of the project
and reviewing the arrangements id made to ensure the timely delivery of the project with all the
benefits realized and within the budget. Special focus is given to management, project
governance, reporting of arrangements (Sollish & Semanik 2012). This also includes:
 Planning of business
 Management of risk
 Structure of organization and governance of the project
 Assurance of process
 Procurement
 Management and contract of administration
Before the construction is completed, this project has significant risks and complexities. To
overcome the problem, transition planning and facility testing are performed. Some of the other
key challenges require the attention of management and ongoing focus. This involves detailed
planning of operations with full delivery of plans. It should also ensure all the work and