Groups and Committees

Outcome-Based Contracting Working Group

Chair Richard Sykes Sole Partner - Dr Richard Sykes Biography

Next meeting

• 02/09/2008
- Outcome-Based Contracting Working Group Meeting
• 13/10/2008
- Outcome-Based Contracting Working Group Meeting
• 24/11/2008
- Outcome-Based Contracting Working Group Meeting

About the group

Intellect’s Outcome-Based Contracting Working Group is a new initiative with a topical agenda that welcomes active engagement from across Intellect’s groups. The Group currently represents 32 members with a direct interest in the development of Outcome-Based Contracts, including suppliers with experience of such contracts and lawyers concerned with the distinctive legal challenges they pose.

Current Activities

Moves are being made to recruit several demand-side experienced members to join the Group. We are looking for existing best practice or experience of outcome-based contracting that is focused on IT in the UK, and in general, as well as feedback on the performance of outcome-based contracts. Current practices reflect the adversarial nature of current bid and contracting processes. Moving towards outcome-based deal-making requires a change in behaviour aimed at more collaborative contracting. Aiming towards this goal as an industry would be beneficial for the industry and for clients.

The group has now completed a scoping document available here outlining the challenges that need to be addressed, and has now begun collating information towards the creation of an Outcome-Based Contracting Best Practice guide, which will draw together lessons from a number of case studies, for the benefit of both the customer and supplier community.

Objectives

The group’s key objectives are to:

• establish what constitutes an outcome-based contract, as distinct from any other type of contract, including output-based.
• define and highlight best practice in the area, utilising existing case studies to highlight the value of Outcome-Based Contracts.
• develop an effective lobbying campaign to disseminate and promote findings across industry and the private sector.

The Group works closely with other Groups at Intellect, particularly the Contracting Best Practice Working Group, the Legal Affairs Group, the Outsourcing and Offshore Group, and the Professionalism Workstream.

Contact details:

Scarlett Graham
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