Alliance Formation. Xxxxx Xxx. This leading construction company in Mexico will support the development of YPM’s construction curriculum and will help provide internships and employment opportunities for youth participants in YPM programs. YPM is in the process of finalizing Year 1 activities with Xxxxx Xxx and developing a Memorandum of Understanding with the firm.
Alliance Formation. In case where project parties are decided to carry out a project as alliance model it is time to prepare tendering documents for each alliance partner groups. While preparing actual tendering documents, it is good to make an open invitation for parties interested in alliance competition. Only for those parties that are sign up for alliance competition based on open invitation and are evaluated as suitable for the project will be send the tendering document. Invitation doesn’t need to be open if owners feels that there are only some recognised parties they wish to participate in competition. At the end of tendering phase there are required alliance parties selected. Number of alliance partners and parties can vary depending on the nature of the project. Before tendering owner group should decide what are required alliance parties for the project they have. Typically, alliance can be formed example following alliance parties: • Owner group • Design group • Contractor group In a big project, such as district level refurbishment projects there are several designers involved. However, it is good to create one alliance group that includes and represents all designers. Similarly, owner group and contractor groups are vast, cover and represents whole group that forms and includes many parties. Alliance formation phase is facilitated by the activator where owners form the team consisting of different players. The alliance will be formed at the end of the alliance formation phase. Energy and economy targets are detailed and awareness raising process started. During the tendering phase, different potential alliance partners can be challenge to develop targets further or challenge to find alternative better ways to reach them. Collaboration skills are essential for carrying out successfully large scale projects such as district level developments. During the tendering phase the important aim is to focus on candidates’ collaboration skills. By challenging competitor teams during the tendering phase gives good possibility to evaluate collaboration skills of the potential alliance partners. Typical characteristics to be evaluated for alliance partners are trust, commitment and cooperation skills addition to cost. To be more specific the following characteristics are important for alliance partner: • Capability to organise project work • Capability to work as an integrated project team • Capability to make decisions and implement • Capability to produce results and evalua...
