In this Master Builders episode of Navigating Major Programmes, hosts Riccardo Cosentino and Shormila Chatterjee challenge the mindset around alliance contracts with Jane Ogilvie, the Alliance Director of Toronto’s East Harbour Transit Hub Alliance and a 20-year veteran of major projects management in her home country of Australia. Jane shares the details of this collaborative approach—one that has long been popular in certain industries Down Under but is still quite new in Canada. From method variations to adopting an alliance contract model mid-project to the future of this framework in Canada and beyond, Jane’s insights highlight the benefits of abandoning an us-versus-them mentality in favour of more collaboration between project participants. “I've worked on P3s and alliances and a lot in between, as I mentioned. And I think P3s still have their place. You know, I think you need a mix of the different styles of contracts, and you need to look at the risk profile of a project to see which one makes sense. You know, uh, there is some types of contract where I would always say, you know, a P3 is probably a better model. And then there's ones that I'd say, obviously an alliance is a better way to go as an outcome. So as an owner, I think you need to look at that spectrum of where is the risk profile? How much of the risk can you share versus what's still a retained risk that you need to retain? As an owner, you can't push everything onto a contract.” - Jane Ogilvie
In this Master Builders episode of Navigating Major Programmes, hosts Riccardo Cosentino and Shormila Chatterjee challenge the mindset around alliance contracts with Jane Ogilvie, the Alliance Director of Toronto’s East Harbour Transit Hub Alliance and a 20-year veteran of major projects management in her home country of Australia.
Jane shares the details of this collaborative approach—one that has long been popular in certain industries Down Under but is still quite new in Canada. From method variations to adopting an alliance contract model mid-project to the future of this framework in Canada and beyond, Jane’s insights highlight the benefits of abandoning an us-versus-them mentality in favour of more collaboration between project participants.
“I've worked on P3s and alliances and a lot in between, as I mentioned. And I think P3s still have their place. You know, I think you need a mix of the different styles of contracts, and you need to look at the risk profile of a project to see which one makes sense. You know, there are some types of contract where I would always say, you know, a P3 is probably a better model. And then there's ones that I'd say, obviously an alliance is a better way to go as an outcome. So as an owner, I think you need to look at that spectrum of where is the risk profile? How much of the risk can you share versus what's still a retained risk that you need to retain? As an owner, you can't push everything onto a contract.” - Jane Ogilvie
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