Innovative use of ECC (NEC) for procurement and management of infrastructure projects with limited funding: Bervie Braes case study

This study considers a number of alliance projects. The variation amongst these projects is mapped against a number of criteria derived from the literature. Contracting plans, the tendering board's minutes, contracts and other policy documents were scanned and interviews were held with key players to reconstruct the motivations for the various alliance approaches. The initial results confirm that changes and choices made in terms of the particular alliance domain are mostly implicit and only sparsely explained by motivations. This paper will present a first overview of ProRail’s alliancing variants, corresponding motivations and expectations, plus more explicit insights into the prevailing implicit reasoning. This study offers a first step in mapping the variation in alliance methods, evaluating their effects and moving the implicit evolutionary development of alliance methods towards more deliberate planned choices in future alliancing variations. The next step in the research project will be to verify the validity of the expectations and logic regarding alliancing.