03 / Execute
Is the scheme ready to start?
Before the contract is signed.
Setting the delivery strategy and procurement route, and testing the contractor’s costs and assumptions.

Getting ready to start is where the approved case is either protected or lost. We set the delivery strategy and procurement route, and test that the costs, programme and assumptions presented by the contractor are correct before commitment.
- Change
- A contractor’s price and programme are presented.
- Connect
- Assumptions, exclusions and prelims are tested against the site.
- Return
- The effect on the approved case is set out before contract.
What we look at
- 1Delivery strategy
- 2Procurement route
- 3Contractor price, programme and assumptions
- 4Risk allocation and readiness to start