Project Alliance Agreement
Roe 8 Project
Contract No. 98/14
Commissioner of Main Roads
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
Georgiou Group Pty Ltd
P.M.R Quarries Pty Ltd
GHD Pty Ltd
AECOM Australia Pty Ltd
BG&E Pty Limited
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Table of Contents
1. Definitions and Interpretation 2
1.1 Definitions 2
1.2 Interpretation 10
1.3 References to Main Roads and the Owner Participant 11
1.4 Business Day 11
1.5 Ambiguity, discrepancy and inconsistency 11
1.6 Provision of information and documentation by the Participants 11
2. Alliance Principles, Purpose, Vision and Objectives 12
2.1 Alliance Principles, Purpose and Vision 12
2.2 Project Objectives 12
3. Commitments 12
3.1 Good Faith 12
3.2 Privilege 12
3.3 Results orientated 12
3.4 Best For Alliance 13
3.5 Open book commitment 13
3.6 Commitment to “no-blame” culture 13
4. Avoidance of issues between the Participants 13
4.1 No litigation or arbitration 13
4.2 Immediate notification of possible issue 14
4.3 Saving of certain legal and equitable rights 14
5. Alliance Board 14
5.1 Establishment and composition 14
5.2 Chairperson 14
5.3 Functions and responsibilities 15
5.4 Representatives authorised to bind Participant 15
5.5 Meetings 15
5.6 Decisions 15
5.7 Compliance with decisions 15
5.8 Disclosure of conflict of interest 16
5.9 Main Roads’ Reserved Powers 16
6. Alliance Manager, Alliance Management Team and Alliance Project Team 17
6.1 Alliance Manager – appointment and functions 17
6.2 Alliance Management Team – selection and endorsement 17
6.3 Change in membership of Alliance Management Team 17
6.4 Alliance Project Team 17
6.5 Change in membership of Alliance Project Team 18
6.6 Project office 18
7. Effective Date and Term 18
7.1 Term of Agreement 18
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7.2 Condition precedent 18
7.3 Effective Date 18
7.4 Time to satisfy condition precedent 18
8. Project Management Plan and Design 19
8.1 Project Management Plan 19
8.2 Design development 20
8.3 Supply of Design by Main Roads 20
8.4 Design input by Main Roads 21
8.5 Site responsibilities 21
9. Direct Cost Target 21
9.1 Nature of Direct Cost Target 21
10. Timing 22
10.1 Completion 22
10.2 Extension of time 22
11. Practical Completion 22
11.1 Definition of Practical Completion 22
11.2 Issue of Certificate of Practical Completion 23
11.3 Disagreement whether Practical Completion reached 23
11.4 Certificate does not constitute approval 23
12. Final reconciliation and Final Certificate 23
12.1 Issue of Final Certificate 23
12.2 Content of Final Certificate 24
12.3 Payment under Final Certificate 24
12.4 Disagreement over contents of Final Certificate 24
12.5 Certificates evidence of completion 24
13. Construction of the Works 24
13.1 Standard of work 24
13.2 Authorisations for construction 25
13.3 Responsibility for Separable Portions 25
13.4 Defects and maintenance 25
13.5 Accreditation under the Scheme 25
14. Directions, Scope Changes and changes to funding 26
14.1 Directions 26
14.2 Scope Change 26
14.3 Endorsement by Main Roads 27
14.4 Change in funding 27
15. Site 28
15.1 Possession of Site 28
15.2 Access for Main Roads and others 28
15.3 Cleaning 28
15.4 Other contractors 28
15.5 Access to other sites 29
16. Policies, procedures and Project Management System 29
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16.1 Subcontracts 29
16.2 Subcontracts with associated person needs Alliance Board approval 29
16.3 Compliance with Statutory Requirements 30
16.4 Compliance with the Code 30
16.5 Protection of people and property 32
16.6 Purchase of Materials 32
16.7 Project Management System 32
16.8 Aboriginal Heritage, rights and employment 33
16.9 Project Industry Participation Plan 33
16.10 Industrial Relations Management Plan 34
17. Payments 34
17.1 General 34
17.2 Acknowledgement 34
17.3 Project Bank Account 35
17.4 Procedure for payment 35
17.5 Payment not evidence 35
17.6 Overpayments and underpayments 35
17.7 Payment of Subcontractors 36
17.8 Construction Contracts Act 2004 36
17.9 Unfixed Materials 37
17.10 Goods and Services Tax (GST Exclusive Prices) 37
18. Reports, records, access and audit 38
18.1 Reports 38
18.2 Alliance records 38
18.3 State records 38
18.4 Access 39
18.5 Audit 39
19. Insurances – specific 39
19.1 Insurances to be maintained by the Owner Participant 39
19.2 Insurances to be maintained by the Non-Owner Participants 41
20. Insurance – general 43
20.1 Claims procedures 43
20.2 Participants' responsibilities 44
20.3 Obligation to notify and assist 44
20.4 Payment of excesses 44
20.5 Proof of insurance and inspection of insurance policies 44
20.6 Owner Participant to be informed of notices 45
20.7 Notice is notice by all insureds 45
20.8 Obligations to remain unchanged 45
20.9 Non-compliance 45
20.10 Pass through of insurance payouts 45
21. Review of insurances and Insurance Risk Management Plan 46
21.1 Review of Insurances 46
21.2 Decision to be made by Alliance Board 46
21.3 Implementation of recommendations 46
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21.4 Insurance Risk Management Plan 46
22. Indemnities 47
22.1 Non compliance with insurance requirements 47
22.2 Wilful Default 47
22.3 Proportionate liability 47
22.4 Insurance obligations are primary 48
23. Limits of liability 48
23.1 Total liability of Non-Owner Participants to Main Roads 48
23.2 Total liability of Main Roads to Non-Owner Participants 48
23.3 No liability for Consequential Loss 48
23.4 Exclusion of Civil Liability Act 48
24. When limits of liability do not apply 49
24.1 Wilful Default 49
24.2 Failure to comply with insurance obligations 49
24.3 Non-payment of Excluded Amounts 49
24.4 Limits of liability are separate from limits under the risk/reward regime 49
25. Suspension 50
25.1 Suspension by the Participants 50
25.2 Suspension by Main Roads 50
25.3 Suspension costs 50
25.4 Recommencement 50
26. No fault termination 50
26.1 No fault termination 50
26.2 Termination payment 51
27. Termination for default and repudiation 51
27.1 Events of Default 51
27.2 Defaulting Participant 51
27.3 Failure to remedy 52
27.4 Exclusion from further participation in this Agreement 52
27.5 Loss and damage 53
28. Consequences of termination 53
28.1 Termination 53
28.2 Work to cease 54
28.3 Consequences of notice of termination 54
28.4 Works continuation 54
29. Security 54
29.1 Type of security 54
29.2 Amount of security 55
29.3 Demand on security 55
29.4 Return of security 56
29.5 Costs of establishing security 56
29.6 Parent Company Guarantee 56
30. Force Majeure 56
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30.1 Definition of Force Majeure Event 56
30.2 Effect of Force Majeure Event 57
31. Intellectual Property 57
31.1 Ownership of Pre-existing Intellectual Property 57
31.2 Enhancements to Pre-Existing Intellectual Property 58
31.3 Ownership of other Intellectual Property 58
31.4 Grant of sub licence 59
31.5 Warranty by Participants 59
31.6 Protection of Participants’ Intellectual Property 59
31.7 Moral rights 60
31.8 Saving 60
32. Notices 60
32.1 All Notices 60
32.2 Notices by email 61
32.3 Receipt of Notices sent by email 61
33. General 61
33.1 Governing law and jurisdiction 61
33.2 Invalidity and enforceability 62
33.3 Waiver 62
33.4 Amendments 62
33.5 Entire agreement 62
33.6 Counterparts 62
33.7 Assignment 62
33.8 Confidentiality 62
33.9 Relationship of the Participants 63
33.10 Corporate power and authority 64
33.11 Financial difficulties 64
33.12 Change in Control 64
33.13 Main Roads’ statutory functions 64
33.14 Survival 64
33.15 Costs 64
33.16 Unincorporated joint venture 64
33.17 Limitation on Liability of Non-Owner Participants after Final Certificate 65
34. Personal Property Securities Act 65
34.1 Meanings of terms 65
34.2 PPSA further steps 66
34.3 Provision of information 66
34.4 PPSA requirements 66
34.5 PPSA exclusions 66
Schedule 1 – Alliance Framework 68
Schedule 2 – Termination payment 71
Schedule 3 – Direct Costs 75
Schedule 4 – Performance Payment 84
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Schedule 5 – Corporate Overhead and Profit 88
Schedule 6 – Participants’ contact details 89
Schedule 7 – Proposal Elements 91
Schedule 8 – Main Roads’ Representative 92
Schedule 9 – Scope Changes 95
Schedule 10 – Basis For Design And Construction 97
Schedule 11 – Payment Procedures 98
Schedule 12 – Form of Statutory Declaration 103
Schedule 13 – Parent Company Guarantee 104
Schedule 14 – Issues Resolution Procedures 110
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Date 2016
Parties
1. Commissioner of Main Roads of Waterloo Crescent, East Perth, Western Australia (Main
Roads).
2. CPB Contractors Pty Ltd, (formerly Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd) ABN 98 000 893 667 of
202 Pier Street Perth, Western Australia (Participant 1).
3. Georgiou Group Pty Ltd, ABN 82 073 851 948 of 68 Hasler Road, Osborne Park, Western
Australia (Participant 2).
4. P.M.R Quarries Pty Ltd, ACN 008 866 448 of 401 Spearwood Avenue, Bibra Lake,
Western Australia (Participant 3).
5. GHD Pty Ltd, ABN 39 008 488 373 of Level 15, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New
South Wales (Participant 4).
6. AECOM Australia Pty Ltd, ABN 20 093 846 925 of Level 8, 540 Wickham Street,
Fortitude Valley, Queensland (Participant 5).
7. BG&E Pty Limited, ABN 67 150 804 603 of 484 Murray Street, Perth, Western Australia
(Participant 6).
Recitals
A Main Roads intends to deliver the Roe 8 Project, being an extension of Roe Highway from
Kwinana Freeway to just west of Coolbellup Avenue.
B The Roe 8 Project is more particularly described in the Basis For Design And Construction
set out in Schedule 10 (the Project).
C Main Roads has selected the Non-Owner Participants based on the Proposal and the selection
process, and the Non-Owner Participants have agreed to enter into this Agreement and to
carry out the Works and the Project in return for the payments set out in this Agreement.
D Main Roads (in its role as the Owner Participant) and the Non-Owner Participants have
undertaken to enter into a project alliance and perform their respective roles in relation to the
Project in the spirit of co-operation and openness.
E The Participants agreed the Direct Cost Target of
and are
committed to achieving exceptional outcomes as measured by the extent to which the Project
meets or exceeds the agreed Key Result Areas.
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F In consideration of, among other things, the mutual promises contained in this Agreement,
the Participants agree as set out in the operative part of this Agreement.
It is agreed as follows.
1. Definitions and Interpretation
1.1 Definitions
The meanings of the terms used in this Agreement are set out below.
Aboriginal Enterprise means a business registered on the Aboriginal Business Directory WA
(available at http://www.abdwa.com.au ) and may be:
(a) a sole trader, if the sole trader is an Aboriginal Person;
(b) a partnership or firm, where at least 51% of the partners are Aboriginal Persons; or
(c) a corporation, where Aboriginal Persons own at least 51% of the corporation.
Aboriginal Heritage means a place, object, remain or any other thing that is of significance to
Aboriginal persons in accordance with their practices, observances, customs, traditions, beliefs or
history and includes any place or object or thing that is subject to protection under the Environment
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth) or the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA).
Aboriginal Person means a person who is of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, who
identifies as such and is accepted as such by the community in which he or she lives or has lived.
Action is defined in clause 5.8(a).
Act of Parliament means all Acts of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, and of the State of
Western Australia and includes any ordinance, rule, regulation, by-law, local law, order, code of
practice, guideline, instruction and proclamation made or issued under any such Act now in
existence or which comes into existence during the Term.
Actual Direct Cost means the total verified sum of all Direct Costs reasonably and actually incurred
by the Participants on or before the Completion Date, except for amounts specifically excluded
under this Agreement.
Adjudicator means the independent person appointed under clause 2 of Schedule 2.
Advance Payment Amounts is defined in clause 3(c) of Schedule 11.
Agreement means this project alliance agreement.
Alliance Board means the alliance board established under clause 5.1.
Alliance Manager means the person specified in clause 6.1 or any other person appointed by the
Alliance Board as the Alliance Manager for the purposes of this Agreement from time to time.
Alliance Management Team means the alliance management team to be established under
clause 6.2.
Alliance Principles are set out in Schedule 1.
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Alliance Project Team means the group of people to be selected by the Alliance Manager under
clause 6.4 as the alliance project team for the alliance.
Alliance Purpose is set out in Schedule 1.
Alliance Vision is set out in Schedule 1.
Authorisation means any consent, registration, filing, agreement, notarisation, certificate, licence,
approval, permit, authority or exemption from, by or with a Government Agency or a Third Party.
Basis For Design And Construction means the written summary of requirements for all of the
Works to be carried out by the Participants under this Agreement as set out in Schedule 10, as may
be amended from time to time in accordance with clause 14.1(a)(viii).
Best For Alliance means an action, approach, decision, determination, method, process, answer,
solution, interpretation, outcome, resolution or the like that is consistent with and serves the Alliance
Principles, Alliance Purpose, Alliance Vision and Project Objectives.
Business Day means a day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in Perth, Western
Australia (unless a clause expressly refers to a Business Day in another location).
CCA means the Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA).
Certificate of Practical Completion is defined in clause 11.2(b).
Change in Control means in respect of an entity, a change in the persons who, directly or indirectly,
control that entity. For the purposes of this definition, the term control (including the terms
controlled by and under common control with) has the same meaning as in the Corporations Act.
Code means the Building Code 2013, a copy of which is available at
http://employment.gov.au/building-code.
Completion Date means the completion date of the Works specified in the Final Certificate.
Consequential Loss means loss of production, loss of revenue, loss of profit or anticipated profit,
loss of business reputation, loss of use, business interruptions of any nature or wasted overheads but
for the avoidance of doubt, does not include any entitlement of a Non-Owner Participant under this
Agreement to Corporate Overhead and Profit.
Construction Plant means apparatus, facilities, plant, equipment and machinery used in carrying out
the Works but not forming part of the completed Works.
Corporate Overhead and Profit or COP means the Non-Owner Participants’ corporate overhead
and profit stated in Schedule 5.
Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
Cost Performance Amount is the payment, if any, to the Non-Owner Participants by Main Roads or
to Main Roads by the Non-Owner Participants (as the case may be) for performance by the
Participants in the area of Direct Costs underrun or overrun which will be calculated in accordance
with the cost performance payment methodology set out in clause 2 of Schedule 4.
D&C Program is defined in clause 8.1(a)(ii).
Date for Practical Completion means the Date for Practical Completion for Separable Portion 1 or
the Date for Practical Completion for Separable Portion 2, as applicable.
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Date for Practical Completion for Separable Portion 1 means , as may be revised in
accordance with this Agreement.
Date for Practical Completion for Separable Portion 2 means , as may be revised in
accordance with this Agreement.
Date of Practical Completion means the date of Practical Completion specified in the Certificate of
Practical Completion.
Defaulting Non-Owner Participant is defined in clause 29.3.
Defaulting Participant is defined in clause 27.1.
Defect means any error, omission, defect, non-conforming item, deficiency or discrepancy in any
part of the Works as compared against the requirements of this Agreement.
Defects Correction Period means, in respect of a Separable Portion, the period commencing from
the Date of Practical Completion applicable to that Separable Portion and expiring on the third
anniversary of the last to occur of the Date of Practical Completion of Separable Portion 1 and
Separable Portion 2.
Delivery Objectives are set out in Schedule 1.
Design means such design, conceptual design, design development and Design Documentation
provided in accordance with this Agreement.
Design Documentation means all:
(a) design documentation (including design standards, design reports, durability reports,
specifications, models, samples, calculations, drawings, digital records and all other
relevant data) in computer readable or written forms, or stored by any other means, which
are required for the performance of the Works or which a Participant or any other person
creates in performing the Works (including the design of Temporary Works);
(b) computer software specifically created or modified for the purpose of the Works; and
(c) reports and submissions to a Government Agency.
Difference Amount is defined in clause 5(a) in Schedule 11.
Diligence means the exercise of the degree of skill, expertise, diligence and foresight which would
from time to time be expected of skilled and experienced professional persons engaged in
undertakings of a similar type as the Works.
Direct Cost Target is
Direct Costs is defined in Schedule 3.
Effective Date is defined in clause 7.3.
Enhancements is defined in clause 31.2(a).
Entitlement Amount is defined in clause 5(a) in Schedule 11.
Environment has the same meaning as in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999 (Cth).
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Excluded Amounts means any:
(a) Direct Costs reimbursable under clause 17.1;
(b) Corporate Overhead and Profit payable under clause 17.1;
(c) Cost Performance Amount or KRA Performance Amount payable under clause 17.1 and
Schedule 4;
(d) amount required to be paid by Main Roads to the Non-Owner Participants, or the Non-
Owner Participants to Main Roads (as the case may be), under clauses 17.6 and 26.2 and
Schedule 2; and
(e) any amount required to be paid by a Non-Owner Participant to the Owner Participant under
clause 20.10.
Excluded Representative is defined in clause 5.8(c).
Expert means a person appointed by the Alliance Board and who:
(a) has reasonable qualifications and commercial and practicable experience in the area of the
dispute;
(b) has no interest or duty which conflicts or may conflict with his or her functions as an
Expert (unless all Participants waive this requirement); and
(c) is not a present (or within the previous five years a past) employee, contractor or consultant
to any of the Participants or their respective Related Body Corporate (unless all Participants
waive this requirement).
Final Certificate is defined in clause 12.1.
Force Majeure Event is defined in clause 30.1.
FWBI Act means the Fair Work (Building Industry) Act 2012 (Cth).
FWBI Regulation means the Fair Work (Building Industry - Accreditation Scheme) Regulation
2016 (Cth).
Good Faith is defined in clause 3.1(a).
Government Agency means any government or governmental, semi-governmental, administrative,
monetary, fiscal or judicial body, department, commission, authority, tribunal, government minister,
agency or entity.
GST Exclusive Consideration is defined in clause 17.10.
Insolvency Event means if a Participant:
(a) informs another Participant or creditors generally that it is insolvent;
(b) has a meeting of its creditors called with a view to:
(i) entering a scheme of arrangement or composition with creditors; or
(ii) placing the Participant under official management;
(c) enters a scheme of arrangement or composition with creditors;
(d) is subject to a resolution passed at a meeting of its creditors to place it under official
management;
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(e) is placed under official management;
(f) has a controller (as that term is defined in the Corporations Act) of its property or part of its
property appointed;
(g) is the subject of an application to a court for its winding up, which application is not stayed
within 10 Business Days;
(h) has a winding up order made in respect of it;
(i) has an administrator appointed under section 436A, 436B or 436C of the Corporations Act;
(j) enters into voluntary liquidation;
(k) fails to comply with a statutory demand issued under section 459E of the Corporations Act,
unless the demand is set aside by a court within 10 Business Days; or
(l) has execution levied against it by creditors, debenture holders or trustees or under a floating
charge.
Insurance Risk Management Plan is defined in clause 21.4.
Intellectual Property means all intellectual property rights existing worldwide and the subject
matter of those rights including any patent, design (whether registered or not), copyright, trade mark,
protected circuit layout (or similar right), trade secret or other right whether existing under a
Statutory Requirement, at common law or in equity.
Intellectual Property Assets are defined in clause 31.3(a).
IP Documents are defined in clause 31.3(a).
Joint Venture is defined in clause 33.16.
JV Agreement is defined in clause 33.16.
Key Result Areas or KRAs are defined in clause 3.2 of Schedule 4.
KRA Performance Amount is the payment, if any, to the Non-Owner Participants by Main Roads or
to Main Roads by the Non-Owner Participants (as the case may be) for performance by the
Participants in the Key Result Areas which will be calculated in accordance with the KRA
performance methodology set out in clause 3 of Schedule 4.
Latent Conditions means the physical conditions on and off the Site including the weather, soil and
rock conditions, surface water, groundwater, geotechnical conditions, contamination, Pollution and
artificial things.
Licence means a licence, approval or consent granted to a Participant under a Statutory Requirement
which is necessary to enable the Project to be delivered.
Main Roads' Representative is defined in clause 1.3(b).
Main Roads’ Reserved Powers means the reserved powers set out in clause 5.9(a).
Materials means materials, plant, machinery, equipment, products, processes and other things used
by the Participants in carrying out, or for incorporation in, the Works.
Native Title Laws includes the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), the Titles (Validation) and Native Title
(Effect of Past Acts) Act 1995 (WA), the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) and the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth).
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Non-Owner Participant means Participant 1, Participant 2, Participant 3, Participant 4, Participant 5
or Participant 6 as the context requires.
Non-Owner Participants means Participant 1, Participant 2, Participant 3, Participant 4, Participant
5 and Participant 6.
Notice is defined in clause 32.1.
Owner Participant means Main Roads, in its capacity as a Participant to the project alliance for the
delivery of the Works.
Parent Company Guarantee is defined in clause 7.2.
Participant means either the Owner Participant, Participant 1, Participant 2, Participant 3,
Participant 4, Participant 5 or Participant 6 as the context requires.
Participants means the Owner Participant and the Non-Owner Participants.
Participating Interest means the percentage ascribed to each Non-Owner Participant in clause
29.1(b).
Performance Payment means a payment to the Non-Owner Participants by Main Roads or to Main
Roads by the Non-Owner Participants (as the case may be) for performance by the Participants in
the:
(a) area of Direct Costs underrun or overrun; and
(b) Key Result Areas.
PMP is defined in clause 8.1(a).
PPSA means the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth).
Pollution means any unauthorised discharge or deposit of waste into the Environment.
Practical Completion is defined in clause 11.1.
Pre-existing Intellectual Property Materials is defined in clause 31.1(a).
Preliminary Design means the Non-Owner Participants' preliminary design for the Works which is
set out in Schedule 7.
Preliminary Project Management Plan means the Non-Owner Participants' preliminary project
management plan in Schedule 7.
Project is defined in Recital B of the Recitals of this Agreement.
Project Bank Account means the bank account referred to in clause 17.3(a).
Project Management System is defined in clause 16.7.
Project Objectives are set out in Schedule 1.
Proposal means the written response submitted by the Non-Owner Participants in respect of the
Project in response to the Request for Proposals for the Perth Freight Link Project.
Record Keeping Code is defined in clause 18.3(b).
Related Body Corporate has the meaning given to that term in the Corporations Act.
Relevant Period means the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on:
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(a) a date agreed by the Alliance Board; or
(b) failing agreement, the date necessary to ensure that all Participants comply with any
Statutory Requirement relating to record keeping.
Request for Proposals means the request for proposals to form a project alliance to design and
construct section 1 (the Roe 8 Project) or section 2, or both, of the Perth Freight Link Project issued
in May 2015.
Risk and Contingency Provisions or RCP means the provision for all possible Direct Costs
associated with the likelihood of risks and opportunities that may arise in carrying out the Works
including items such as Latent Conditions, rise and fall events, directions by Main Roads or the
Alliance Board in accordance with clause 14.1 (excluding Scope Changes), foreign exchange
fluctuations, cost of living increases, uncertainty of costs of Utility Services relocation, costs of
coordinating the Works with other works and services undertaken by Main Roads or its contractors
(other than the Non-Owner Participants) and the cost of rectifying any Defects.
Roe 8 Project is defined in Recital A of the Recitals to this Agreement.
Scheme means the 'Australian Government Building and Construction WHS Accreditation Scheme'
established by the FWBI Act.
Scope Change is defined in clause 14.2(a).
Senior Project Director is defined in clause 1.3(d).
Separable Portion means Separable Portion 1 or Separable Portion 2.
Separable Portion 1 means Separable Portion 1, more particularly described in the Basis For Design
And Construction.
Separable Portion 2 means Separable Portion 2, more particularly described in the Basis For Design
And Construction.
Site means any land, or any part of land, where the Works are to be performed.
Statutory Requirements includes:
(a) Acts of Parliament;
(b) Authorisations;
(c) directions given under a statutory power which affect the performance of the Works; and
(d) all other laws, regulations, conventions, orders, directions, guidelines and policies given by
or on behalf of any Government Agency which may apply to the Works.
Stipulation is defined in clause 27.2(a).
Subcontract means any contract or purchase order, or arrangement made in respect of the Works,
between a Participant and a Subcontractor.
Subcontractor means any person engaged by a Participant to perform any part of the Works and
includes, where it is not inconsistent with the context, that person’s employees, agents, consultants
and invitees.
Supplier is defined in clause 17.10(d).
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Temporary Works means works used in the execution or undertaking of the Works, but which do
not form part of the completed Works.
Term is described in clause 7.1.
Third Party means a person who is not a Participant or a director, officer or employee of a
Participant.
Utility Services means the permanent or temporary installations of utility providers, including
energy (for example, electricity and gas), water, sewerage, drainage and telecommunications
infrastructure.
Wilful Default means any of the following:
(a) a deliberate and purposeful act or omission carried out, or real and substantial evidence of a
deliberate and purposeful act or omission carried out, with a reckless disregard or
calculated disregard for the consequences of the act or omission by a Participant which is a
breach of a duty, obligation or Stipulation arising out of this Agreement, or which is a
breach of a duty or obligation owed to another Participant however arising;
(b) an act or omission by a Participant which gives rise to a contravention or cancellation of a
Licence where:
(i) it was reasonably foreseeable that the consequences of the act or omission would
give rise to a contravention or cancellation of the Licence; and
(ii) in the case of a contravention of a Licence only, the Participant fails to
immediately take all steps necessary to remedy the contravention of the Licence;
(c) a deliberate and wilful act or omission by a Participant which is a substantial or continuous
breach of the Project Management System;
(d) the refusal by the Alliance to grant to the Owner Participant access to the Site or Works as
required in accordance with clause 15.2; and
(e) failure to pay moneys due under this Agreement within 28 days of being directed to do so
in writing by the Alliance Board,
but does not include any error of judgment, mistake, act or omission, whether negligent or not,
which is made in Good Faith by that Participant or by any director, officer, employee, agent or
Subcontractor of that Participant.
Works means the whole of the works and services to be carried out by the Participants from time to
time under this Agreement (including the works set out in the Basis For Design And Construction)
necessary to deliver those works and services in accordance with this Agreement and the D&C
Program and includes:
(a) the Separable Portions;
(b) all planning, management and administrative works and services associated with managing
the Works as a whole;
(c) the works associated with any direction by Main Roads or the Alliance Board in accordance
with clause 14.1 or Scope Changes;
(d) Temporary Works; and
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(e) rectification work necessary to make good any Defects in a Separable Portion arising before
and during the Defects Correction Period applicable to that Separable Portion.
1.2 Interpretation
In this Agreement:
(a) headings and bold type are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this
Agreement;
(b) the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular;
(c) words of any gender include all genders;
(d) other parts of speech and grammatical forms of a word or phrase defined in this Agreement
have a corresponding meaning;
(e) an expression importing a person includes any company, partnership, joint venture,
association, corporation or other body corporate and any Government Agency as well as an
individual;
(f) a reference to a clause, party, schedule, attachment, annexure or exhibit is a reference to a
clause of, and a party, schedule, attachment, annexure or exhibit to, this Agreement and a
reference to this Agreement includes any clause, schedule, attachment, annexure and
exhibit;
(g) a reference to any legislation includes all delegated legislation made under it and
amendments, consolidations, replacements or re-enactments;
(h) a reference to a document (including this Agreement) is that document as varied, amended,
novated, ratified or replaced from time to time;
(i) a covenant or agreement on the part of the Non-Owner Participants (or any one or more of
them) binds them jointly to Main Roads;
(j) all money referred to under this Agreement is in Australian dollars;
(k) a reference to a body (including an institute, association or authority), other than a party to
this Agreement, whether statutory or not which ceases to exist or whose powers or
functions are transferred to another body, is a reference to the body which replaces it or
which substantially succeeds to its powers or functions;
(l) specifying anything in this Agreement after the words “include” or “for example” or similar
expressions does not limit what else is included;
(m) a reference to writing includes any method of representing or reproducing words, figures,
drawings, or symbols in a visible and tangible form and includes communication by email;
(n) non-defined terms commencing in the upper case have their apparent meanings;
(o) nothing in this Agreement is to be interpreted against a Participant solely on the ground that
the Participant put forward this Agreement or any part of it; and
(p) a reference to a Participant using, or obligation on a Participant to use, its 'best endeavours'
does not oblige that Participant to:
(i) pay money:
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(A) in the form of an inducement or consideration to a Third Party to procure
something (other than the payment of immaterial expenses or costs,
including costs of advisers, to procure the relevant thing); or
(B) in circumstances that are commercially onerous or unreasonable in the
context of this Agreement;
(ii) provide other valuable consideration to, or for the benefit of, any person; or
(iii) agree to commercially onerous or unreasonable conditions.
1.3 References to Main Roads and the Owner Participant
(a) While Main Roads and the Owner Participant are the same entity, throughout this
Agreement references are made to “Main Roads” and “Owner Participant” respectively to
indicate when that entity is acting as the client for the Works and when it is acting as one of
the Participants to the project alliance for the delivery of the Works.
(b) Main Roads must perform its obligations under this Agreement through a representative
appointed in writing by Main Roads from time to time and who, as at the Effective Date, is
(Main Roads' Representative). Main Roads may, from time to time,
change the Main Roads' Representative by giving notice to the Non-Owner Participants.
(c) Main Roads’ Representative will also perform the roles and functions and have the powers
and rights allocated to him or her as set out in Schedule 8. The Participants will provide all
assistance necessary to ensure Main Roads’ Representative can fulfil the responsibilities,
perform those roles and functions and exercise those rights.
(d) Main Roads has also appointed as Senior Project Director who has the
responsibility to make any alterations to the Direct Cost Target under clause 9.1. The
Senior Project Director may attend Alliance Board meetings and may attend other meetings
by agreement with the Alliance Manager. The Senior Project Director has the authority to
perform the obligations of the Main Roads' Representative, if the Main Roads'
Representative is absent for any reason. Main Roads may, from time to time, change the
Senior Project Director by giving notice to the Non-Owner Participants.
1.4 Business Day
Where the day on or by which any thing is to be done is not a Business Day, that thing must be done
on or by the next Business Day.
1.5 Ambiguity, discrepancy and inconsistency
The Alliance Board must resolve any ambiguity, discrepancy or inconsistency in this Agreement,
and the documents comprising this Agreement, in a manner consistent with the commitments given
by the Participants under clause 3.
1.6 Provision of information and documentation by the Participants
The Participants have, prior to the Effective Date, exchanged information and advice about the
Works and the performance of the Works. The Participants must continue to do this during the
Relevant Period. To avoid the possibility of issues between the Participants arising and the need for
any subsequent alterations to the Direct Cost Target, each Participant must undertake its own
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enquiries to satisfy itself as far as reasonably practical of the accuracy, completeness and relevance
of that information or advice.
2. Alliance Principles, Purpose, Vision and Objectives
2.1 Alliance Principles, Purpose and Vision
The Participants will perform the Works in accordance with the Alliance Principles, Alliance
Purpose and Alliance Vision set out in Schedule 1. The Alliance Principles, the Alliance Purpose
and the Alliance Vision will underpin the relationship between the Participants at all levels of the
project alliance.
2.2 Project Objectives
The Project Objectives set out in Schedule 1 are the key drivers of the Project.
3. Commitments
3.1 Good Faith
(a) In the context of this Agreement, Good Faith means:
(i) acting in accordance with the Alliance Principles, Alliance Purpose and Alliance
Vision both in a literal sense and with their intent;
(ii) undertaking, adopting and implementing all things reasonably necessary to ensure
a Best For Alliance outcome; and
(iii) being fair, honest and reasonable and acting with integrity at all times.
(b) Subject to clauses 3.1(c) and 3.2, the Participants must act in Good Faith in exercising their
rights and performing their obligations under this Agreement.
(c) The Participants' obligations to act in Good Faith do not apply to:
(i) the exercise of Main Roads' discretion under clause 5.9; or
(ii) the exercise of any right or remedy by a Participant consequent upon any of the
circumstances set out in clause 4.3 arising.
3.2 Privilege
Nothing in this Agreement requires a Participant to waive any entitlement or right to legal
professional privilege or disclose confidential lawyer/client communications.
3.3 Results orientated
The Participants commit to working together to meet the Project Objectives and to produce
outstanding and innovative results in carrying out the Works.
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3.4 Best For Alliance
The Participants commit to establishing an alliance culture based on the Alliance Principles,
Alliance Purpose and Alliance Vision and to act at all times in a manner that is consistent with a
Best For Alliance approach.
3.5 Open book commitment
(a) Each Participant commits to:
(i) maintain, for at least the Relevant Period, all of the records and other
documentation referred to in this Agreement that relate to the Works in accordance
with, where applicable, good accounting practices, standards and procedures;
(ii) make the records and other documentation available to each other (or each other’s
nominated auditor) on request; and
(iii) make available to each other (or each other’s nominated auditor) any existing
documentation or information in whatever form relating to the Works.
(b) The obligation to make records and documentation available does not apply to records or
documentation that may be the subject of legal professional privilege or are confidential
lawyer/client communications.
3.6 Commitment to “no-blame” culture
A key purpose of this Agreement is, and the Participants will commit themselves to:
(a) promoting and maintaining a 'no-blame' culture between the Participants in relation to
disputes, errors, mistakes, poor performance and other issues which may arise; and
(b) the prompt and mutual resolution of all disputes, differences and other issues by all
Participants within the framework created by this Agreement.
4. Avoidance of issues between the Participants
4.1 No litigation or arbitration
(a) Subject to clause 4.3, the Participants agree that, as a fundamental element of, and objective
in, establishing the alliance relationship under this Agreement, there will be no litigation or
arbitration between them arising out of or in connection with this Agreement. The
Participants must use their best endeavours to avoid issues arising as between each other
and, to the extent an issue arises, must resolve the issue internally. The Alliance Board
must resolve issues in accordance with the principles and procedures set out in
Schedule 14.
(b) The Participants agree that, subject to the exceptions listed in clause 4.3, a failure by a
Participant to perform any obligation or to discharge any duty under, or arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement, or which is otherwise an obligation to or duty owed to
another Participant however arising, does not give rise to any enforceable right or
obligation at law or in equity and, to the extent that it does, the other Participants release
and discharge that Participant from any consequences at law or in equity for that failure.
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4.2 Immediate notification of possible issue
Each Participant agrees to immediately notify the other Participants of any matter which may
amount to or result in an issue between the Participants in relation to this Agreement.
4.3 Saving of certain legal and equitable rights
Clause 4.1 has no force or effect:
(a) in respect of a Wilful Default by a Participant;
(b) in respect of a Participant’s motor vehicle insurer exercising a right of subrogation, to the
extent it is permitted to do so, against another Participant;
(c) where a Participant has a right to bring a claim or action under a Statutory Requirement
which cannot be excluded as a matter of law by the Participants;
(d) any claims for breach of any Statutory Requirement (including any prosecution brought
against a Participant by a Government Agency) in connection with the Works;
(e) in respect of a breach of an obligation to indemnify under this Agreement; or
(f) where this Agreement expressly states that clause 4.1 does not apply.
5. Alliance Board
5.1 Establishment and composition
The Participants have established the Alliance Board. The Alliance Board comprises 9
representatives, each to be a senior member of the relevant Participant’s organisation, of which:
(a) two will be appointed by the Owner Participant;
(b) two will be appointed by Participant 1;
(c) one will be appointed by Participant 2;
(d) one will be appointed by Participant 3;
(e) one will be appointed by Participant 4;
(f) one will be appointed by Participant 5; and
(g) one will be appointed by Participant 6.
The initial representatives appointed by each Participant are set out in Schedule 1. Each Participant,
with the agreement of the other Participants, may remove or replace its representatives on the
Alliance Board.
5.2 Chairperson
The Owner Participant must appoint a chairperson. The chairperson must be a representative of the
Owner Participant and a member of the Alliance Board.
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5.3 Functions and responsibilities
The primary function of the Alliance Board is to ensure that this Agreement runs as smoothly and
efficiently as possible for the benefit of the Participants. The roles and responsibilities of the
Alliance Board are more fully described in Schedule 1.
5.4 Representatives authorised to bind Participant
A Participant’s representative is authorised to represent and bind their appointor on any matter
relating to this Agreement. A decision will bind the Participants, if, when the decision was made, the
representative reasonably believed the decision was within the representative’s authorisation limit.
5.5 Meetings
(a) The Alliance Board must hold a meeting at intervals of no greater than monthly and
otherwise when reasonably required by any Participant. The procedures for Alliance Board
meetings must be decided by the Alliance Board at its first meeting. Those procedures may
be changed at any time by a decision of the Alliance Board.
(b) The Participants acknowledge that the continuous involvement in and attendance at the
Alliance Board meetings of the nominated Alliance Board representatives is critical to the
success of the project alliance.
5.6 Decisions
(a) No decision can be made by the Alliance Board unless:
(i) one representative of the Owner Participant;
(ii) one representative of Participant 1;
(iii) one representative of either Participant 2 or Participant 3; and
(iv) one representative of either Participant 4, Participant 5 or Participant 6,
are present at the meeting and unanimity is achieved.
(b) Each Participant must use its best endeavours to ensure a decision made by the Alliance
Board is unanimous.
(c) If the Alliance Board does not achieve unanimity on an issue, the issues resolution
procedure in Schedule 14 will apply.
5.7 Compliance with decisions
(a) Subject to paragraph (b), a Participant must comply with an Alliance Board decision that is
within the matters contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) If a Participant genuinely believes that compliance with an Alliance Board decision would
cause the Participant or a Participant’s officer, director, agent or employee to do or omit to
do anything that contravenes any law or Statutory Requirement, or the Participant’s
constituent statute, constitution, memorandum or articles of association, the Participant
need not comply, but must immediately notify the remaining Participants.
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5.8 Disclosure of conflict of interest
(a) A Participant’s representative must fully disclose to an Alliance Board meeting, an Alliance
Management Team meeting or Alliance Project Team meeting (as the case may be), any
conflicting interest or duty, or potential conflict of interest or duty the representative may
have (whether personally or as a representative) before participating in any:
(i) action, decision or determination to be taken or made by the Alliance Board,
Alliance Management Team or Alliance Project Team (as the case may be)
associated with or connected to the conflict; or
(ii) discussion or consideration of any relevant issue or making a decision or
determination about, or taking an action in respect of, that issue associated with or
connected to the conflict, during an Alliance Board meeting, Alliance
Management Team meeting or Alliance Project Team meeting (as the case may
be),
(paragraphs (i) and (ii) collectively, Action).
(b) The Alliance Board, in the absence of the representative concerned, will consider each such
disclosure under paragraph (a) and determine (adopting best corporate governance
practices) if the representative has a conflict and, if so, how to resolve or mitigate that
conflict in accordance with a Best for Alliance approach.
(c) Where the Alliance Board resolves, in accordance with paragraph (b), to exclude the
representative (Excluded Representative) from an Alliance Board meeting, an Alliance
Management Team meeting or Alliance Project Team meeting (as the case may be) in
respect of the Action, then that Action may not proceed until another representative of the
Participant attends and performs the role, functions and duties of the Excluded
Representative in respect of the Action.
5.9 Main Roads’ Reserved Powers
(a) Notwithstanding the alliance relationship established under this Agreement, the Non-Owner
Participants acknowledge that the final decision on the following matters (Main Roads’
Reserved Powers) ought to be, and are, reserved for unilateral determination by Main
Roads:
(i) the decision to suspend all or part of the Works under clause 25;
(ii) any decisions, directions or actions Main Roads determines are necessary
following any event which significantly impacts on the Works or any part of the
Works;
(iii) any discretion exercised by Main Roads under clause 20.1(b); and
(iv) unless otherwise specified, the decision to terminate this Agreement where Main
Roads has such a right under this Agreement.
(b) The Participants must abide by and implement a decision by Main Roads under
paragraph (a) as though it was a decision of the Alliance Board.
(c) The impact, if any, that the exercise of a Main Roads’ Reserved Power has on
compensation to the Non-Owner Participants under this Agreement will be calculated in
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accordance with the manner prescribed by this Agreement, and if no manner is prescribed,
as determined by Main Roads.
6. Alliance Manager, Alliance Management Team and Alliance Project
Team
6.1 Alliance Manager – appointment and functions
The Alliance Board has selected and appointed as the Alliance Manager. The
functions and responsibilities of the Alliance Manager will be determined by the Alliance Board as
soon as practicable after the Effective Date.
6.2 Alliance Management Team – selection and endorsement
(a) Subject to paragraph (b), the Alliance Management Team will be selected by the Alliance
Manager and endorsed by the Alliance Board and will comprise of the Alliance Manager
and individuals drawn from the Participants reporting directly to the Alliance Manager
provided always that at least one representative from each Participant must be selected and
endorsed.
(b) The Owner Participant may nominate Main Roads' personnel for inclusion in the Alliance
Management Team and those persons nominated must form part of the Alliance
Management Team.
(c) The membership of the Alliance Management Team may be amended with the approval of
the Alliance Board.
(d) The Alliance Management Team must perform the functions determined by the Alliance
Board as soon as practicable after the Effective Date.
6.3 Change in membership of Alliance Management Team
The Participants must (subject to satisfactory performance by the relevant personnel) use their best
endeavours to ensure that, where appropriate, the personnel that have been assigned to the Alliance
Management Team remain as members of the Alliance Management Team for the duration of the
Works or otherwise until the Alliance Board or the Alliance Manager, as appropriate, decides that he
or she is no longer required.
6.4 Alliance Project Team
(a) Subject to the requirements of this clause, an Alliance Project Team will be selected by the
Alliance Manager.
(b) The Alliance Project Team must:
(i) include personnel from each of the Participants; and
(ii) under the guidance of the Alliance Board and the Alliance Management Team,
perform the functions determined by the Alliance Board and Alliance Management
Team as soon as practicable after the Effective Date and from time to time during
the Term.
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(c) The Owner Participant plans to nominate personnel for inclusion in the Alliance Project
Team (including nominating some personnel for the purpose of gaining training and
experience in program alliancing). The Alliance Manager must include in the Alliance
Project Team those persons nominated by the Owner Participant and at all times give due
consideration for and accommodate the normal work conditions and conditions of
employment of the Owner Participant's personnel.
6.5 Change in membership of Alliance Project Team
The Participants must (subject to satisfactory performance by the relevant personnel) use their best
endeavours to ensure that, where appropriate, the personnel that have been assigned to the Alliance
Project Team remain as members of the Alliance Project Team for the Term or otherwise until the
Alliance Board or the Alliance Management Team decides that he or she is no longer required.
6.6 Project office
The Participants must provide Project offices as soon as practicable after the Effective Date until the
Date of Practical Completion of the last Separable Portion.
7. Effective Date and Term
7.1 Term of Agreement
This Agreement becomes effective on the Effective Date and continues until (subject to
clause 33.14):
(a) payment is made in accordance with clause 12.3 by Main Roads or the Non-Owner
Participants, as the case may be, on the Final Certificate; or
(b) it is terminated under clause 26, 27 or 30.2(b)(iii) or otherwise under this Agreement,
(the Term).
7.2 Condition precedent
Notwithstanding the Participants executing this Agreement, this Agreement is conditional on
Participant 1 providing to Main Roads an original validly executed parent company guarantee in the
form, or substantially in the same form acceptable to Main Roads, set out in Schedule 13 (Parent
Company Guarantee).
7.3 Effective Date
The effective date of this Agreement is the later of:
(a) the date on which Main Roads receives the Parent Company Guarantee from Participant 1;
and
(b) the date on which the Participants execute the Agreement,
(Effective Date).
7.4 Time to satisfy condition precedent
If the condition precedent set out in clause 7.2 is not:
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(a) satisfied within 20 Business Days of the date of this Agreement; or
(b) waived by Main Roads (acting in its absolute discretion),
then this Agreement shall lapse and have no force or effect.
8. Project Management Plan and Design
8.1 Project Management Plan
(a) Promptly following the Effective Date, but by no later than 60 Business Days from that
date, the Alliance Management Team must develop the Preliminary Project Management
Plan into a final Project Management Plan (PMP). The PMP must include the following:
(i) a project specific Scope of Works and Technical Criteria (SWTC) document which
is based on Main Roads' template generic SWTC and complies with the Basis For
Design And Construction;
(ii) a detailed design and construction program which achieves the required Dates for
Practical Completion and indicates the dates by which Main Roads must give the
Participants access, or procure their access, to the portions of the Site (the D&C
Program);
(iii) a project cash-flow which is consistent with the D&C Program; and
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(b) The Participants must, in consultation with the Alliance Board, develop and implement any
other management plans necessary to ensure that the Project is managed and delivered to
the standards and in the manner required to ensure the Project Objectives are satisfied.
8.2 Design development
The Alliance Management Team must develop the Preliminary Design to a level necessary for the
Participants to satisfy themselves that:
(a) the Design for the Works is such that, when constructed, the Works will meet the Basis For
Design And Construction;
(b) the Design for the Works is constructible having regard to usual industry practices;
(c) the Design for the Works makes the optimum use of the time available contemplated by
this Agreement to complete the Works;
(d) the Works can be constructed within Main Roads’ budget for the Project and in accordance
with the Project Objectives;
(e) the Design of each element of the Works is iterated sufficiently to achieve the optimum
value for money;
(f) the decision on the final Design option contemplated in paragraph (e) for any element of the
Works must be considered with reference to input from Main Roads' Representative; and
(g) the Design of the Works ensures a minimum 'whole of life' cost for the Works having
regard to the various design lives of each component of the Works and the requirements of
the Basis For Design And Construction.
8.3 Supply of Design by Main Roads
(a) In addition to the Basis For Design And Construction, Main Roads may, from time to time,
provide the Non-Owner Participants with Design and other documentation which:
(i) is consistent with the Basis For Design And Construction; and
(ii) describes Main Roads’ requirements for the design, documentation and
construction of the Works.
(b) The Participants must take into account the Design and other documentation in designing
the Works.
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(c) Subject to paragraph (d), the Non-Owner Participants may not use, copy or reproduce the
Design or other documentation provided by Main Roads for any purpose other than for
undertaking the Works.
(d) The Design and other documentation (and any copies of it) supplied by Main Roads to the
Non-Owner Participants remains the property of Main Roads. The Non-Owner Participants
may retain one copy of each Design and other documentation supplied by Main Roads for
purposes solely connected with:
(i) quality assurance record keeping; or
(ii) insurances contemplated by this Agreement,
and all other Design and other documentation (including all other copies) must, upon Main
Roads' written request, be destroyed or returned by the Non-Owner Participants to Main
Roads.
8.4 Design input by Main Roads
(a) The Participants must give Main Roads the opportunity to monitor Design development of
the Works.
(b) The Participants must provide Main Roads with any Design and other documentation
relating to the Works which Main Roads reasonably requires from time to time to enable its
technical input and comment to be offered.
(c) The Participants must provide Main Road's Representative confirmation that any relevant
input and comments offered by Main Roads under paragraph (b) have been satisfactorily
addressed.
8.5 Site responsibilities
The Participants must ensure that, in consultation with Main Roads' Representative, the Participants,
relevant Main Roads' organisational units and all other relevant contractors and service providers
engaged by Main Roads for the management of the existing roads and structures located within, or
connected to, the Site, agree between them the roles and responsibilities of each entity with respect
to:
(a) general maintenance;
(b) traffic management;
(c) network operations; and
(d) incident management,
issues occurring within, or connected to, the Site and document any agreement reached in the PMP.
9. Direct Cost Target
9.1 Nature of Direct Cost Target
The Direct Cost Target is fixed and not subject to alteration except in accordance with:
(a) clause 14.3(c)(i) (Scope Change);
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(b) clause 21.3(e) (Insurances);
(c) clause 25.3(b) (Suspension costs); or
(d) clause 30.2(b)(i) (Force Majeure),
and is inclusive of all Direct Costs and RCP.
10. Timing
10.1 Completion
The Participants must use their best endeavours to execute each Separable Portion to the stage of
Practical Completion by the Date for Practical Completion.
10.2 Extension of time
(a) If the Alliance Board considers that the Participants are or will be delayed in reaching
Practical Completion as a result of any of the following:
(i) a direction by Main Roads in accordance with clause 14.1 (but not including a
direction which Main Roads determines to be a Scope Change under
clause 14.2(e));
(ii) a Force Majeure Event;
(iii) an abnormal or exceptional cause that the Alliance Board decides is or was beyond
the reasonable control of the Participants; or
(iv) suspension by Main Roads of all or part of the Works under clause 25,
it must decide any appropriate extension of time to the Date for Practical Completion.
(b) Lack of funds or financial resources of a Non-Owner Participant is not a cause of delay
beyond the reasonable control of a Participant and does not entitle a Participant to any
extension of time to the Date for Practical Completion.
11. Practical Completion
11.1 Definition of Practical Completion
Practical Completion means, in respect of a Separable Portion, the stage in the execution of that
Separable Portion when:
(a) the works identified in that Separable Portion are complete except for:
(i) minor omissions and Defects which do not prevent the Separable Portion from
being reasonably capable of being used for the purpose as intended in the Basis
For Design And Construction (either expressly or by implication);
(ii) minor omissions and Defects which the Participants have reasonable grounds for
not promptly rectifying; and
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(iii) minor omissions and Defects rectification of which will not prejudice the
immediate and convenient use of the Separable Portion for the purpose as intended
in the Basis For Design And Construction (either expressly or by implication);
(b) the requirements of all relevant certifying authorities and insurance surveyors have been
met; and
(c) Main Roads has received all documents, certifications and information about the design and
construction of the Separable Portion including all Design, surveys and as constructed
information and drawings and other documentation reasonably required by Main Roads
with respect to the Separable Portion.
11.2 Issue of Certificate of Practical Completion
(a) If the Alliance Board decides that Practical Completion has been reached in respect of a
Separable Portion, it must notify Main Roads accordingly.
(b) Main Roads must, if it agrees that Practical Completion has been reached, within 20
Business Days after receiving that notification, issue a certificate of Practical Completion in
respect of that Separable Portion (Certificate of Practical Completion) to the Participants,
stating the Date of Practical Completion notified by the Alliance Board.
11.3 Disagreement whether Practical Completion reached
(a) If Main Roads does not agree that Practical Completion has been reached, it must, within
20 Business Days after receiving notification from the Alliance Board, notify the Alliance
Board that it disagrees and the reasons why it believes that Practical Completion has not
been reached.
(b) The Alliance Board must then ensure that the Participants promptly address the matters
specified by Main Roads, and when those matters have been addressed, re-notify Main
Roads that the Alliance Board has decided that Practical Completion has been reached.
(c) Main Roads must then re-consider whether it agrees that Practical Completion has been
reached. If Main Roads agrees that Practical Completion has been reached, clause 11.2(b)
will apply. If Main Roads does not agree that Practical Completion has been reached,
clause 11.3(a) will apply.
11.4 Certificate does not constitute approval
The issue of a Certificate of Practical Completion does not constitute approval of the applicable
Separable Portion.
12. Final reconciliation and Final Certificate
12.1 Issue of Final Certificate
If the Participants have complied with all their obligations relating to the Works (including all
obligations arising during the Defects Correction Period), the Alliance Board must issue to Main
Roads a final payment claim endorsed 'final certificate' (Final Certificate).
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12.2 Content of Final Certificate
In the Final Certificate, the Alliance Board must certify:
(a) that all of the Participants’ obligations relating to the Works have been properly completed
in accordance with this Agreement;
(b) the amount which, in the opinion of the Alliance Board, is finally due and payable to the
Non-Owner Participants by Main Roads, or from the Non-Owner Participants to Main
Roads (as the case may be). In determining the amount which is finally due and payable to
the Non-Owner Participants by Main Roads or from the Non-Owner Participants to Main
Roads (as the case may be), the Alliance Board must have regard to any Direct Costs which
may be incurred by Main Roads following the issue of the Final Certificate;
(c) the calculation of any Cost Performance Amount payable; and
(d) the Completion Date.
12.3 Payment under Final Certificate
If Main Roads and the Non-Owner Participants agree with the contents of the Final Certificate, Main
Roads or the Non-Owner Participants (as the case may be) must make the payment contemplated by
the Final Certificate within 20 Business Days of the date that the Final Certificate is received by
Main Roads.
12.4 Disagreement over contents of Final Certificate
(a) If Main Roads does not agree with the contents of the Final Certificate, it must, within 20
Business Days after receiving the Final Certificate, notify the Alliance Board which part of
the contents of the Final Certificate it does not agree with and the reasons it does not agree.
(b) The Alliance Board must then ensure that the Participants promptly address the matters
specified by Main Roads and when those matters have been addressed, re-submit the Final
Certificate to Main Roads.
(c) Main Roads must then re-consider whether it agrees with the contents of the Final
Certificate. If Main Roads agrees with the contents of the Final Certificate then clause 12.3
will apply. If Main Roads does not agree with the contents of the Final Certificate
paragraph (a) will apply.
12.5 Certificates evidence of completion
Subject to clause 17.6, once payment has been made on the Final Certificate, the Final Certificate is
evidence that the Works have been completed in accordance with the terms of this Agreement on the
Completion Date and that all payments required to be made by Main Roads or by the Non-Owner
Participants (as the case may be) in respect of the Works have been made in full.
13. Construction of the Works
13.1 Standard of work
The Participants must:
(a) commence to carry out the Works on the Effective Date in accordance with this Agreement;
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(b) carry out all of the Works with Diligence;
(c) design and construct, to the extent applicable, the Works to meet the requirements set out in
the Basis For Design And Construction;
(d) design and construct the Works to ensure a minimum whole of life cost for the Works as a
whole based on the various design lives of each component of the Works;
(e) take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the Works cause as little disturbance as
reasonably possible to the general public and Main Roads, its employees, other contractors
and service providers engaged by Main Roads; and
(f) carry out the Works such that rectification work necessary to make good any Defects
arising before and during the Defects Correction Period are promptly rectified to the
satisfaction of Main Roads before the end of the Defects Correction Period.
13.2 Authorisations for construction
(a) The Participants must commence with the design of the Works but may not commence
construction of the Works until the necessary Authorisations for construction have been
obtained.
(b) If the Participants are unable to obtain all of the Authorisations necessary for the
construction of the Works or any part of the Works, then the Alliance Board must promptly
meet and decide how and under what conditions, if any, the Works are to proceed.
13.3 Responsibility for Separable Portions
From the date the Participants are given possession of the Site in respect of the Separable Portion
and until the Date of Practical Completion applicable to that Separable Portion, the Participants are
responsible for the works and services, rectification of any Defects and maintenance associated with
that Separable Portion.
13.4 Defects and maintenance
(a) After the Date of Practical Completion of the Separable Portion, the Participants remain
responsible for the completion of outstanding works and services in respect of that
Separable Portion including reinstatement works and the rectification of any Defects
existing at the Date of Practical Completion applicable to that Separable Portion or arising
during the Defects Correction Period applicable to the Separable Portion. Subject to
paragraph (b), maintenance of a Separable Portion after the Date of Practical Completion
applicable to that Separable Portion is the sole responsibility of Main Roads.
(b) The Participants must maintain all landscaping, revegetation and drainage for the duration
of the Defects Correction Period.
13.5 Accreditation under the Scheme
Subject to the exclusions specified in the FWBI Regulation, Participant 1 must:
(a) maintain accreditation under the Scheme while 'building work' (as defined in section 5 of
the FWBI Act) is being carried out in respect of the Works; and
(b) comply with all conditions of Scheme accreditation.
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14. Directions, Scope Changes and changes to funding
14.1 Directions
(a) Main Roads (acting on its own accord or following a recommendation from the Alliance
Board) may direct the Participants in writing to:
(i) change the design of the Works;
(ii) change the Works;
(iii) increase, decrease or omit any part of the Works;
(iv) change the character or quality of any material or work;
(v) change the levels, lines, positions or dimensions of any part of the Works;
(vi) execute additional work, such additional work to be within the general scope of
this Agreement;
(vii) demolish or remove material or work no longer required by Main Roads;
(viii) change the Basis For Design And Construction; or
(ix) subject to clause 14.4, change, alter or amend the D&C Program,
and the Participants must, subject to obtaining any necessary Authorisation or amendment
to an existing Authorisation and, in the case of a Scope Change, Main Roads’ endorsement
of the Scope Change, within a reasonable time, implement that direction.
(b) No direction will invalidate this Agreement and, unless the direction is a Scope Change,
there will be no change to the Direct Cost Target.
(c) The Participants agree that an amount for directions of the kind contemplated by this
clause 14.1, other than directions determined to be a Scope Change, will be, and is,
included in the RCP component of the Direct Cost Target.
14.2 Scope Change
(a) A scope change (Scope Change) is a direction by Main Roads under clause 14.1 which
amounts to either:
(i) a significant change, amendment or alteration to the Basis For Design And
Construction; or
(ii) a significant change to the fundamental requirements of the Works.
Examples of when a direction by Main Roads in accordance with clause 14.1 is also a
Scope Change are set out in Schedule 9.
(b) The Participants acknowledge that it is their expectation that Scope Changes are unlikely to
occur during the Term.
(c) Where the Alliance Board considers that a direction by Main Roads under clause 14.1 is a
Scope Change, the Alliance Board must, prior to implementation by the Participants of the
direction, notify Main Roads in writing.
(d) The determination as to whether a direction by Main Roads under clause 14.1 is a Scope
Change must be made by Main Roads applying the principles set out in paragraph (a) and
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the examples set out in Schedule 9. Main Roads must promptly notify the Alliance Board
of its determination.
(e) If Main Roads determines that a direction by Main Roads under clause 14.1 is a Scope
Change, the Alliance Board must determine:
(i) the proposed reasonable alterations, if any, required to the Direct Cost Target; and
(ii) the proposed reasonable extension of time, if any, required to the Date for Practical
Completion,
and as soon as reasonably practicable notify Main Roads of its determination.
14.3 Endorsement by Main Roads
(a) Within 20 Business Days of receipt of a notice under clause 14.2(e), Main Roads must, by
notice to the Alliance Board, endorse or reject:
(i) the Scope Change;
(ii) any reasonable alteration to the Direct Cost Target proposed by the Alliance
Board; and
(iii) any reasonable extension of time to the Date for Practical Completion proposed by
the Alliance Board.
(b) If, in accordance with paragraph (a), Main Roads endorses the Scope Change and the
matters referred to in paragraphs (a)(ii) and (a)(iii), the Participants must, subject to
obtaining any necessary Authorisation or amendment to an existing Authorisation, within a
reasonable time, implement the Scope Change.
(c) In addition to implementing the Scope Change, the Participants must ensure, to the extent
applicable:
(i) the Direct Cost Target is adjusted in the way endorsed by Main Roads and a
commensurate alteration is made to the Direct Cost Target; and
(ii) the Date for Practical Completion is extended by the period endorsed by Main
Roads.
(d) If, in accordance with paragraph (a), Main Roads rejects the Scope Change or any one of
the matters referred to in paragraphs (a)(ii) and (a)(iii), the Participants may not implement
the Scope Change.
(e) If a direction by Main Roads under clause 14.1 is implemented by the Participants prior to
the endorsement by Main Roads in accordance with paragraph (a), the Participants will not
at any time be entitled to:
(i) an alteration of the Direct Cost Target; or
(ii) an extension to the Date for Practical Completion.
14.4 Change in funding
If, during the Term and as a result of changes in funding for the Project, Main Roads directs the
Participants to substantially change the D&C Program with effect that significant additional Works
are required to be performed by the Participants or a significant part of the Works are required to be
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omitted, the Alliance Board must promptly meet and decide how, and under what conditions, if any,
this Agreement is to proceed.
15. Site
15.1 Possession of Site
(a) Subject to the Participants complying with clause 8.5, Main Roads will give the
Participants possession of the Site or sufficient possession of the Site to enable the
Participants to carry out the Works in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the
Participants must ensure they are in compliance with their insurance obligations set out in
this Agreement and contained in the insurance policies contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) Without limiting paragraph (a), the Participants must commence Work on the Site by the
date specified in the D&C Program.
15.2 Access for Main Roads and others
(a) Main Roads, its employees and agents and any other person nominated by Main Roads may
at any time have access to any part of the Site for any purpose.
(b) Access is available after notification by Main Roads to the Participants of the areas to be
visited. Main Roads must comply with the relevant Site procedures and health, safety and
environmental conditions.
(c) Main Roads must use its best endeavours to procure that any contractor engaged by Main
Roads before the Effective Date complies with the relevant Site procedures and health,
safety and environmental requirements when accessing and executing works or services on
the Site.
(d) At all reasonable times, the Participants will give Main Roads and any other person
authorised in writing by Main Roads access to the Works at any place where that work is
being carried out or Materials are being prepared or stored.
15.3 Cleaning
(a) The Participants must keep the Site and the Works clean and tidy and must regularly
remove rubbish and surplus material.
(b) The Participants must remove the Temporary Works and Construction Plant from the Site
within a reasonable time.
15.4 Other contractors
(a) The Participants acknowledge that Main Roads has arranged, and may subsequently
arrange, for other contractors to execute works or services on and adjacent to the Site
concurrently with the performance of the Works.
(b) Without limiting any other obligation of the Participants under this Agreement, the
Participants must:
(i) at all reasonable times allow access to any Site to the other contractors; and
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(ii) cooperate with the other contractors to ensure the coordination of the works or
services of the other contractors with the performance of the Works by the
Participants and compliance with the Participants’ obligations under this
Agreement.
15.5 Access to other sites
The Participants agree that if they or their Subcontractors require access to, or use, control or
possession of, a site(s) other than the Site in order to carry out the Works in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement, the Participants will be responsible for procuring such access, use, control
or possession in consultation and cooperation with Main Roads.
16. Policies, procedures and Project Management System
16.1 Subcontracts
(a) Subcontracts may be entered into by any of the Participants within the authorisation limits
set by the Alliance Board from time to time.
(b) Any Subcontract entered into by a Non-Owner Participant or Non-Owner Participants (as
the case may be) is entered into in its or their own right and not as an agent of Main Roads.
(c) The general terms and conditions of Subcontracts (including the insurance obligations of
the Subcontractors) must be decided by the Participants through the Alliance Management
Team and approved by the Alliance Board.
(d) Notwithstanding paragraph (c), a Subcontract must:
(i) contain the grant of a licence of Intellectual Property by the Subcontractor to each
Participant;
(ii) contain written warranties in favour of Main Roads to the extent that such
warranties are relevant, that any:
(A) materials incorporated into the Works are correctly designed, fabricated
and installed to the standards set out in this Agreement or, if not set out,
then to the relevant industry standards and codes of practice; and
(B) Design and any materials incorporated into the Works are of the required
quality and fit for the intended uses stated in this Agreement; and
(iii) subject to the exclusions specified in the FWBI Regulation applying, contain a
requirement that where the Subcontractor is carrying out 'building work' (as
defined in section 5 of the FWBI Act) in respect of the Works the Subcontractor
must be accredited (at all times while performing Works under this Agreement)
under the Scheme and must comply with all conditions of Scheme accreditation.
16.2 Subcontracts with associated person needs Alliance Board approval
(a) The Participants recognise that difficulties may arise in the proper calculation of Direct
Costs if one or more of the Participants enters into a contract, arrangement or understanding
related to this Agreement with a person that is in any way related to or associated with the
Participant concerned.
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(b) The Participants agree that before any of them enters into any contract, arrangement or
understanding with any person which is in any way related to or associated with the
Participant, they must first seek the approval of the Alliance Board to that contract,
arrangement or understanding.
16.3 Compliance with Statutory Requirements
(a) The Participants must comply with all Statutory Requirements that affect or relate to the
performance of the Works, including obtaining and complying with all Authorisations
necessary to perform each particular portion of the Works, prior to undertaking that
particular portion of the Works.
(b) Notwithstanding clause 4.1, a failure by a Participant to comply with the requirements of
paragraph (a) confers on the other Participants an enforceable right at law or in equity to
seek any one of or a combination of specific performance, injunction or damages and, to the
extent that any right under an Act of Parliament may be excluded by this Agreement, under
that Act of Parliament.
(c) Without limiting paragraph (a), the Participants must comply with the State of Western
Australia's 'Government Building Training Policy' administered by the Department of
Training and Workforce Development.
16.4 Compliance with the Code
(a) Each of the Participants must, and must ensure that all of its Subcontractors and, in the case
of each of the Non-Owner Participants only, its Related Bodies Corporate, comply with the
Code.
(b) Compliance with the Code does not relieve the Participants from responsibility to perform
their obligations under this Agreement or from any liability for any Defect in the Works
arising from compliance by the Participants with the Code.
(c) Where any amendment to this Agreement under clause 33.4 is proposed by the Participants
or the Alliance Board, and that amendment would affect compliance with the Code by the
Participants in accordance with this clause 16.4, the Alliance Board must submit a report to
the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia specifying the extent to which the
Participants’ compliance with the Code will be affected.
(d) Each of the Participants must maintain adequate records of compliance with the Code by:
(i) that Participant;
(ii) that Participant’s Subcontractors; and
(iii) in the case of each of the Non-Owner Participants only, its Related Bodies
Corporate.
(e) If the Non-Owner Participants do not comply with the requirements of the Code in the
performance of this Agreement such that a sanction is applied by:
(i) the Minister for Employment;
(ii) the Code Monitoring Group (as referred to in the Code); or
(iii) the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia,
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without prejudice to any rights that would otherwise accrue, the Minister for Employment,
the Code Monitoring Group or the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia are
entitled to record that non-compliance and take it, or require it to be taken, into account in
the evaluation of any future tenders that may be lodged by the Non-Owner Participants or a
Related Body Corporate of the Non-Owner Participants in respect of work funded by the
Government of the Commonwealth of Australia or any Government Agency.
(f) While acknowledging that value for money is the core principle underpinning decisions on
Government procurement, when assessing tenders, the Participants may give preference to
Subcontractors that have demonstrated commitment to:
(i) adding, retaining or both trainees and apprentices;
(ii) increasing the participation of women in all aspects of the industry; or
(iii) promoting employment and training opportunities for Indigenous Australians in
regions where significant Indigenous populations exist.
(g) A Subcontractor in relation to the Project must not be engaged where:
(i) the appointment would breach a sanction imposed by the Minister for
Employment; or
(ii) the Subcontractor has had an adverse court or tribunal decision (not including
decisions under appeal) for a breach of workplace relations law, work health and
safety law, or workers' compensation law and the Subcontractor has not fully
complied, or is not fully complying, with the order.
(h) Each of the Participants must, and must ensure that its Subcontractors and, in the case of
each of the Non-Owner Participants only, its Related Bodies Corporate, provide the
Government of the Commonwealth of Australia or any person authorised by the
Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, including a person occupying a position in
the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate, with access to:
(i) inspect any work, material, machinery, appliance, article or facility;
(ii) inspect and copy any record relevant to the Project and Works the subject of this
Agreement; and
(iii) interview any person,
as is necessary to ensure their compliance with the Code.
(i) Each of the Participants and, in respect of each of the Non-Owner Participants only, its
Related Bodies Corporate, must comply with a request from the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia or any person authorised by the Government of the
Commonwealth of Australia, including a person occupying a position in the Fair Work
Building Industry Inspectorate, to produce a specified document within a specified period,
in person, by facsimile or by post.
(j) For the avoidance of doubt, paragraph (h) applies in relation to the Non-Owner
Participants’ new privately funded construction projects.
(k) The Participants must ensure that all Subcontracts impose obligations on the Subcontractors
equivalent to the obligations under this clause 16.4.
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16.5 Protection of people and property
(a) Without limiting any other obligation of the Participants under this Agreement, the
Participants are committed to protecting both people and property when carrying out the
Works, and must take all action to ensure this commitment is met including:
(i) providing all Materials, procedures and training and taking all measures necessary
to protect people and property;
(ii) avoiding unnecessary interference with the passage of people and vehicles;
(iii) except to the extent necessary in relocating, replacing or protecting any Utility
Service, avoiding damage, obstruction or other interference with any Utility
Service or other similar services to the Site;
(iv) minimising the effect of the Works on the aesthetic qualities of the Environment
and social activities of local community members;
(v) eliminating nuisance including implementing appropriate dust control measures
and avoiding unnecessary noise and disturbance; and
(vi) preventing unlawful environmental damage or Pollution.
(b) The Participants' responsibilities include the provision of barricades, guards, fencing,
temporary roads, warning signs, lighting, traffic flagging, safety helmets, training of
personnel and clothing, removal of obstructions and protection of Utility Services of the
kind referred to in paragraph (a).
16.6 Purchase of Materials
(a) Any Materials necessary for the Works must be purchased on a Best For Alliance basis.
(b) If a Non-Owner Participant acquires Materials, it must ensure that:
(i) the benefit of any express warranty attaching to the Materials is assigned to Main
Roads;
(ii) Main Roads obtains unencumbered title to those Materials upon payment for those
Materials by Main Roads through the Direct Cost reimbursement principle set out
in clause 17.1; and
(iii) it maintains an up to date register of all assets including a register of all express
and implied warranties pertaining to those Materials as provided by the relevant
supplier or prescribed by a Statutory Requirement.
(c) Any surplus Materials that have been paid for by Main Roads as a Direct Cost must be
disposed of at the direction of Main Roads and Main Roads is entitled to the proceeds of
that disposal and the Actual Direct Cost must be reduced by the sum of the proceeds from
that disposal.
16.7 Project Management System
(a) Promptly following the Effective Date, the Alliance Management Team must develop and
implement an integrated project management system in accordance with the requirements
of 'A Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) – 5th
Edition'
(Project Management System).
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(b) The Project Management System must be of a standard that is capable of Third Party
certification to AS/NZS ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems - Requirements.
16.8 Aboriginal Heritage, rights and employment
(a) It is of critical importance to the Participants that the Participants have a very good working
relationship with Aboriginal People and the organisations which represent them.
Accordingly, it is an objective of Main Roads to ensure that nothing that any of the
Participants may do or omit to do in carrying out the Works harms that relationship.
(b) The Participants are committed to the protection of Aboriginal Heritage and Aboriginal
rights and must ensure that they, their employees, agents, Subcontractors, consultants and
suppliers comply with:
(i) all applicable Statutory Requirements relating to Aboriginal Heritage and Native
Title Laws;
(ii) any agreements or arrangements between Main Roads and Aboriginal People in
relation to Aboriginal Heritage;
(iii) Main Roads’ instructions reasonably required to enable Main Roads to comply
with any Statutory Requirements, agreements, arrangements or requirements of
any other Authorisation relating to Aboriginal Heritage and Native Title Laws; and
(iv) the Aboriginal Heritage Management Plan.
(c) The Participants must use their best endeavours to provide employment to Aboriginal
People and must provide opportunities for Aboriginal Enterprises to tender for Subcontract
works and services.
(d) The Participants must set targets for employment of Aboriginal People and awarding of
Subcontracts to Aboriginal Enterprises and report on progress against these targets at
Alliance Board meetings.
16.9 Project Industry Participation Plan
(a) The Participants commit to work constructively with Australian industry to identify and
develop options for maximising local content in performing the work under the Agreement.
(b) Main Roads has developed an over-arching Industry Participation Plan to help achieve this
objective and to ensure consistency with the State Government's Building Local Industry
Policy. The Industry Participation Plan details the strategies that will be undertaken to
ensure Australian industry is provided a full, fair and reasonable opportunity to participate
in all aspects of the Works.
(c) For the purposes of this clause 16.9:
(i) full means Australian industry has the same opportunity afforded to other global
supply chain partners to participate in all aspects of the Works (eg. design,
engineering, project management, professional services, IT architecture);
(ii) fair means Australian industry is provided the same opportunity as global suppliers
to compete on an equal and transparent basis, including being given reasonable
time in which to tender; and
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(iii) reasonable means tenders are free from non-market burdens that might rule out
Australian industry and are structured in such a way as to provide Australian
industries the opportunity to participate in the Works.
(d) The Project Industry Participation Plan (to form part of the PMP) must be prepared by the
Alliance Management Team in accordance with the State Government's Building Local
Industry Policy requirements and the Main Roads’ over-arching Industry Participation Plan
and must include the targets referred to in clause 16.8(d).
(e) The Non-Owner Participants have agreed to allow opportunities for smaller contracting
companies to participate in the Project. The Participants must achieve this objective by the
award of separate packages of works to a range of contractors who are prequalified with
Main Roads (under the National Prequalification System) to Road Categories R1, R2, R3
and R4 (but not R5) and/or Bridge Categories B1, B2 and B3 (but not B4). The aggregate
value of these packages must be a minimum of , a maximum of of which
may be awarded to R1 and B1 contractors. The contractors included must not be
Participants. Each package of works must be competitively tendered and awarded using a
transparent value for money evaluation process approved by the Alliance Board.
16.10 Industrial Relations Management Plan
No later than 20 Business Days after the Effective Date, the Participants, through the Alliance
Management Team, must develop, implement and include in the PMP an Industrial Relations
Management Plan in relation to the Works and the Project that is in compliance with relevant
Statutory Requirements, codes of practice (including the Code) and guidelines. The Industrial
Relations Management Plan is to be approved (or otherwise) by the Alliance Board and once
approved, implemented by the Alliance Management Team.
17. Payments
17.1 General
Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, no matter what events, circumstances,
contingencies, conditions (Latent Conditions or otherwise), or degree of difficulty is encountered by
the Participants in carrying out the Works, the Non-Owner Participants’ entitlement, and only
entitlement, to payment by Main Roads for the Works is for:
(a) Direct Costs reimbursement;
(b) Corporate Overhead and Profit;
(c) the Cost Performance Amount if, under the applicable portion of the Performance Payment
methodology set out in clause 2 of Schedule 4, a Cost Performance Amount is payable; and
(d) the KRA Performance Amount if, under the applicable portion of the Performance Payment
methodology set out in clause 3 of Schedule 4, a KRA Performance Amount is payable.
17.2 Acknowledgement
The Non-Owner Participants acknowledge that Main Roads has entered into this Agreement in
reliance on representations by the Non-Owner Participants that, other than as expressly provided for
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in Schedule 3, the Direct Costs do not include any element of profit, mark up or overhead
component to the Non-Owner Participants.
17.3 Project Bank Account
(a) The Non-Owner Participants must establish a separate bank account for the purposes of this
Agreement (Project Bank Account).
(b) Main Roads must ensure that payments to the Non-Owner Participants for their Direct
Costs, Corporate Overhead and Profit, Cost Performance Amount and KRA Performance
Amount are made to the Project Bank Account.
17.4 Procedure for payment
The entitlement procedure and principles which will govern:
(a) reimbursement of Direct Costs;
(b) payment by Main Roads of the Corporate Overhead and Profit;
(c) payment by Main Roads or the Non-Owner Participants (as the case may be) of the Cost
Performance Amount; and
(d) payment by Main Roads to the Non-Owner Participants or by the Non-Owner Participants
to Main Roads (as the case may be) in respect of the KRA Performance Amount,
are set out in Schedule 11.
17.5 Payment not evidence
Payment of moneys is not evidence of the value of the Works, or that the Works have been executed
satisfactorily, or an admission of liability, but is payment on account only.
17.6 Overpayments and underpayments
(a) If, on completion of any inspection and audit it is discovered that the total payments made
to the Non-Owner Participants are greater than the Non-Owner Participants’ entitlement to
payment under this Agreement, Main Roads may either:
(i) deduct an amount equal to the excess from moneys due or becoming due to the
Non-Owner Participants whether under this Agreement or otherwise; or
(ii) require the Non-Owner Participants to reimburse the excess to Main Roads.
(b) If, on completion of any inspection and audit it is discovered that the total payments made
to the Non-Owner Participants are less than the Non-Owner Participants’ entitlement to
payment under this Agreement, the Non-Owner Participants may require Main Roads to
pay any shortfall to the Non-Owner Participants.
(c) This clause 17.6 applies:
(i) even if the Final Certificate has been issued under clause 12 or this Agreement has
terminated; and
(ii) whether the inspection and audit was carried out under clause 18.5, or otherwise.
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(d) If Main Roads or the Non-Owner Participants are required to make a payment under this
clause 17.6, they must make that payment within 20 Business Days of a request for
payment being made.
(e) Notwithstanding clause 4.1, Main Roads or the Non-Owner Participants (as the case may
be) may commence proceedings to recover any amount payable to them under this
clause 17.6 which was not paid on time.
17.7 Payment of Subcontractors
(a) If a Non-Owner Participant informs Main Roads, or Main Roads becomes aware, that a
Non-Owner Participant has failed to pay an amount that is due and payable to a
Subcontractor, Main Roads may pay the Subcontractor directly and the amount paid will be
a Direct Cost.
(b) If Main Roads pays a Subcontractor directly, it is not liable to pay the Non-Owner
Participant for the work performed by the Subcontractor the subject of the payment.
17.8 Construction Contracts Act 2004
(a) The Non-Owner Participants must:
(i) promptly give Main Roads a copy of any notice that a Non-Owner Participant
receives from a Subcontractor; and
(ii) ensure that each Subcontractor promptly gives Main Roads and the Non-Owner
Participants a copy of any notice that the Subcontractor receives from another
party,
under sections 42 or 43 of the Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA) (CCA).
(b) If Main Roads becomes aware that the Subcontractor is entitled to suspend any works or
services (which forms part of the Works) under section 42 of the CCA, Main Roads may
pay the Subcontractor such money as is or may be owing to the Subcontractor in respect of
works or services forming part of the Works. Any amount paid by Main Roads will be a
Direct Cost and Main Roads is not liable to pay the Non-Owner Participant for the work
performed by the Subcontractor the subject of the payment.
(c) If a Participant applies for adjudication of a payment dispute under the CCA, the prescribed
appointer for the purposes of section 26(1)(c) of the CCA is The Western Australian
Chapter of The Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.
(d) For the purposes of this clause 17.8, a reference to:
(i) a Subcontractor includes any person engaged by a Non-Owner Participant, its
subcontractors or any other person to carry out works or services which forms part
of the Works; and
(ii) works or services refers to all or any part of the Works a Non-Owner Participant is
or may be required to execute or provide under this Agreement and includes
equipment, services (including design work), Materials, Construction Plant and
Temporary Works.
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17.9 Unfixed Materials
Without limiting clause 16.6, Main Roads will not pay for any Materials off-Site unless:
(a) Main Roads is satisfied that the unencumbered title to those Materials will pass to Main
Roads on payment and the Owner Participant is satisfied that the Materials are protected
and insured to Main Roads’ satisfaction; or
(b) the Materials are delivered to the Site and the terms of the supply of the Materials are that
unencumbered title to those Materials passes to Main Roads or the Non-Owner Participants
on delivery.
17.10 Goods and Services Tax (GST Exclusive Prices)
(a) Any reference in this clause 17.10 to a term defined or used in the A New Tax System
(Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth) is, unless the context indicates otherwise, a
reference to that term as defined or used in that Act.
(b) Unless expressly included, the consideration for any supply made under or in connection
with this Agreement does not include an amount on account of GST in respect of the supply
(GST Exclusive Consideration) except as provided under this clause 17.10.
(c) Any amount referred to in this Agreement (other than an amount referred to in
paragraph (h)) which is relevant in determining a payment to be made by one of the
Participants to another is, unless indicated otherwise, a reference to that amount expressed
on a GST exclusive basis.
(d) To the extent that GST is payable in respect of any supply made by a Participant (Supplier)
under or in connection with this Agreement, the consideration to be provided under this
Agreement for that supply (unless it is expressly stated to include GST) is increased by an
amount equal to the GST Exclusive Consideration (or its GST exclusive market value if
applicable) multiplied by the rate at which GST is imposed in respect of the supply.
(e) The recipient must pay the additional amount payable under paragraph (d) to the Supplier at
the same time as the GST Exclusive Consideration is otherwise required to be provided.
(f) The Supplier must issue a tax invoice to the recipient of the taxable supply at or before the
time of payment of the consideration for the supply as increased on account of GST under
paragraph (d) or at such other time as the parties agree.
(g) Whenever an adjustment event occurs in relation to any taxable supply made under or in
connection with this Agreement the Supplier must determine the net GST in relation to the
supply (taking into account any adjustment) and if the net GST differs from the amount
previously paid under paragraph (e), the amount of the difference must be paid by, refunded
to or credited to the recipient, as applicable.
(h) If one of the Participants is entitled to be reimbursed or indemnified for a loss, cost,
expense or outgoing incurred in connection with this Agreement, then the amount of the
reimbursement or indemnity payment must first be reduced by an amount equal to any
input tax credit to which the Participant being reimbursed or indemnified (or its
representative member) is entitled in relation to that loss, cost, expense or outgoing and
then, if the amount of the payment is consideration or part consideration for a taxable
supply, it must be increased on account of GST under paragraph (d).
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(i) The Participants, through the Alliance Management Team must, as soon as practicable after
the Effective Date, develop and implement a system to manage the GST implications of the
Works.
18. Reports, records, access and audit
18.1 Reports
The Participants must ensure that the Alliance Management Team prepares, as a minimum, the
following:
(a) D&C Program status reports;
(b) Separable Portion status reports;
(c) KRA performance reports;
(d) monthly earned value reports; and
(e) monthly cash flow statements covering a 3 month rolling period,
relating to the Works in a format and at times which are acceptable to Main Roads.
18.2 Alliance records
The Participants must maintain for the Relevant Period, a complete set of:
(a) all records which show how the Direct Cost Target was calculated and how any Scope
Changes were valued for the purposes of clause 14.2;
(b) all purchase orders, invoices, accounts, records and bank statements including for the
Project Bank Account (to the extent they relate to the Works) under good and accepted
accounting principles showing all of the Direct Costs reasonably and actually incurred in
the performance of the Works; and
(c) all correspondence, tenders, Subcontracts, minutes of meetings, notes, reports, drawings, as
constructed information and all other documentation associated with the Works.
18.3 State records
(a) For this purposes of this clause 18.3, records and State records have the meanings given to
them in the State Records Act 2000 (WA).
(b) The Participants acknowledge that the State Records Act 2000 (WA) requires Main Roads
and the Participants to provide for the keeping of State records related to contracts.
Records must be kept in accordance with Main Roads' document entitled 'Record Keeping
Code of Practice for the Management of Contract Records' (Record Keeping Code).
(c) As part of their obligations under this clause 18.3, the Participants, through the Alliance
Board, must:
(i) manage its record keeping obligations by complying with the Records
Management Plan for the keeping of all records in accordance with the Record
Keeping Code; and
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(ii) maintain and comply with the Records Management Plan until the end of the
Defects Correction Period.
18.4 Access
The Participant who holds the original of any of the records referred to in clause 18.2 must:
(a) keep them for the Relevant Period; and
(b) on request, make them available to any other Participant and that Participant’s nominated
auditor.
18.5 Audit
(a) Subject to paragraph (b) and clause 33.13, any Participant or its nominated auditor may
inspect and audit documentation referred to in clause 18.2:
(i) at the times identified in the audit plan to be developed by the Participants
promptly after the Effective Date and approved by the Alliance Board; or
(ii) at any other time as agreed by the Alliance Board.
(b) Main Roads or its nominated auditor may inspect and audit documentation referred to in
clause 18.2 at any time determined by Main Roads.
(c) A Participant must provide each other Participant with proper access to their personnel and
facilities to enable any Participant or its nominated auditor to undertake any inspection and
audit of the kind set out in this clause 18.5.
(d) Subject to paragraph (e), all inspection and audit costs must be paid by the Participant
undertaking the inspection and audit and are not Direct Costs.
(e) If an inspection and audit under this clause 18.5 reveals that the other Participant is in
default (as that term is defined in clause 27.1), then without limiting any other rights and
obligations of a Participant, the Participant in default is responsible for all costs incurred by
the Participant undertaking the inspection and audit and those costs are not Direct Costs.
19. Insurances – specific
19.1 Insurances to be maintained by the Owner Participant
(a) Insurance of the Works
As soon as practicable after the Effective Date, the Owner Participant must take out
contract works insurance insuring the Works (which includes the transit of procurements
ex-works to Site) in the joint names of the Owner Participant, the Non-Owner Participants
and Subcontractors. The insurance must be for the full replacement cost. The policy must
cover the Owner Participant, the Non-Owner Participants and Subcontractors and must
come into effect as soon as the policy is taken out and continue for a period of three years
followed by a 36 month defects correction period.
(b) Combined general liability insurance policy
As soon as practicable after the Effective Date, the Owner Participant must take out a
combined general liability insurance policy in the names of the Owner Participant, the Non-
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Owner Participants and Subcontractors, whether nominated or otherwise for their respective
rights and interests and liabilities, for an amount not less than $250 million arising from any
one occurrence in respect of:
(i) death of or personal injury (including illness) to any person not being a person
who at the time of the occurrence is engaged in or upon the service of the insured
under a contract of service or apprenticeship; and
(ii) damage to property not belonging to nor in the care, custody or control of the
insured,
caused by an occurrence happening during the period of insurance arising out of or in the
course of or by reason of the execution or purported execution of the Works.
The insurance referred to in this paragraph (b) must commence as soon as the insurance is
taken out and continue for the Term.
(c) Professional indemnity insurance
As soon as practicable after the Effective Date, the Owner Participant must effect a
professional indemnity insurance policy. The professional indemnity insurance policy must
be in the names of the Owner Participant, the Non-Owner Participants and Subcontractors
providing professional services and must cover legal liability to Third Parties for breach of
professional duty arising out of the Works and loss or damage suffered by the Participants
as a result of a breach of professional duty arising out of the Works.
The professional indemnity insurance policy referred to in this paragraph (c) must include a
limit of liability of:
(i) not less than $50 million and not more than $100 million for any one claim; and
(ii) not less than $50 million and not more than $100 million in the aggregate for all
claims,
the final respective amounts within the ranges described in paragraphs (i) and (ii) being
subject to agreement between Main Roads and the Non-Owner Participants prior to the
inception of the professional indemnity insurance policy.
The professional indemnity insurance policy to be effected and maintained by the Owner
Participant in accordance with this paragraph (c) must be arranged so that it comes into
effect on the Effective Date and must be effected and maintained for a period of six years
from the date of inception of the insurance policy. Prior to the expiry of the six year period
referred to in this paragraph (c), the Alliance Board must meet and determine what, if any,
insurance arrangements are to be put in place to address the risks of claims arising
following the expiration of the six year period. As part of this process, the Alliance Board
will consider whether any amendments are required to this Agreement to give effect to
those agreed insurance arrangements. If the Alliance Board determines that additional
insurance is required or the current policy should be renewed or extended, any costs
associated with effecting and maintaining that additional insurance or extension or renewal
of the current policy will be Direct Costs.
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(d) Motor vehicle insurance
The Owner Participant must effect motor vehicle third party liability insurance against
property damage and injury to and death of persons, arising from the use of motor vehicles
belonging to or in the care, custody or control of the Owner Participant and used in
connection with the Works, for an amount of not less than $20 million arising from any one
event in addition to any obligation under a Statutory Requirement for insurance relating to
motor vehicles.
(e) Non-Owner Participants to accept terms
To the extent that it is commercially viable for the Owner Participant to do so, the Owner
Participant will use its best endeavours to procure the insurance policies contemplated by
this clause 19.1 such that they contain terms, conditions, exclusions, premiums and
excesses consistent with applicable insurance industry practice and similar insurance
policies ordinarily procured by the Non-Owner Participants. Notwithstanding the
requirements of this paragraph (e), the Non-Owner Participants agree that the insurance
policies contemplated by this clause 19.1 will contain such terms, conditions, exclusions,
premiums and excesses as determined by the Owner Participant, acting reasonably, and the
Non-Owner Participants, upon procurement by the Owner Participant of the insurance
policies contemplated by this clause 19.1, will accept those policies in full satisfaction of
the Owner Participant’s obligations to insure as imposed by this clause 19.1.
19.2 Insurances to be maintained by the Non-Owner Participants
(a) Construction and equipment insurance
Each Non-Owner Participant, or the Non-Owner Participants together, must insure
Construction Plant, equipment, tools, facilities, hutments, services, construction aids and
the like, belonging to it or them or under it or their physical or legal care, custody or control
and including its or their employees’ effects whilst on Site or being mobilised to the Site or
being demobilised from the Site, supplied, leased or hired for use in connection with the
performance of the Works. The insurance effected and maintained pursuant to this
paragraph (a) must be:
(i) unless otherwise agreed by the Owner Participant, for the insured property’s
market value;
(ii) extended to name the Owner Participant as an insured party for its respective
rights, interests and liabilities;
(iii) extend to cover all liability to Third Parties for loss of or damage to property
arising from the use, loss or damage of the Construction Plant, equipment, tools,
facilities, hutments, services, construction aids and the like, belonging to a Non-
Owner Participant or under the Non-Owner Participants’ physical or legal care,
custody or control and including the Non- Owner Participants' employees’ effects
whilst on Site or being mobilised to the Site or being demobilised from the Site,
supplied, leased or hired by the Non-Owner Participants for use in connection with
the performance of the Works; and
(iv) against all risks and physical loss or damage arising from any cause which:
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(A) occurs during the period commencing on the date of commencement of
the Works and ending on the date the Non-Owner Participants have
completed demobilisation from Site; or
(B) becomes apparent after the Date of Practical Completion (as specified in
the Certificate of Practical Completion) and before the date of issue of the
Final Certificate provided that the cause has occurred prior to or on the
Date of Practical Completion,
and in either case arises out of or in the course of or by reason of the execution or
purported execution of the Works.
(b) Motor vehicle insurance
Each Non-Owner Participant or the Non-Owner Participants together, must effect motor
vehicle third party liability insurance against property damage and injury to and death of
persons and all liability to Third Parties for loss of or damage to property, arising from the
use of motor vehicles belonging to it or them or in the care, custody or control of it or them
and used in connection with the Works, for an amount of not less than $20 million arising
from any one event in addition to any obligation under a Statutory Requirement for
insurance relating to motor vehicles. An insurance policy contemplated by this paragraph
(b) effected by Participant 1 must extend to name the Owner Participant as an insured party
for its respective rights, interests and liabilities. An insurance policy contemplated by this
paragraph (b) effected by Participant 2 or by the Non-Owner Participants together must
extend to register the interest, if any, of the Owner Participant in the motor vehicles.
(c) Workers' Compensation Insurance
(i) Each Non-Owner Participant must maintain or effect and maintain, and ensure that
each of its Subcontractors maintains or effects and maintains, a policy that
provides or policies that together provide cover:
(A) in respect of any injury, damage, expense, loss or liability suffered or
incurred by any person engaged in carrying out the Works (or their
dependants) giving rise to a claim:
(1) under any statute relating to workers’ or accident compensation;
or
(2) for employer’s liability at common law; and
(B) in Western Australia, in every State or Territory or other jurisdiction
where the Works will be carried out, as well as in each State or Territory
or other jurisdiction where the Non-Owner Participant's employees
normally reside or where their respective contracts of employment were
made,
including any such coverage as may be necessary to cover liability in respect of
expatriate personnel under the laws of the state or country of their origin for the
benefits required to be covered by insurance at that point in time.
(ii) The policy referred to in clause 19.2(c)(i) must, in relation to employer’s liability
at common law, have a limit of cover of at least:
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(A) for a policy maintained or effected and maintained by a Subcontractor
where the subcontract value is less than $2 million, $50 million; and
(B) in all other circumstances, $200 million,
arising out of any one occurrence or event. Such policy must, unless prohibited by
law, extend to indemnify the Owner Participant as principal for all statutory claims
and at common law and provide a waiver by the insurer of all rights of
subrogation, action or relief against the Owner Participant.
(iii) Each Non-Owner Participant must, from the date of this Agreement, maintain
continuous cover under the policy referred to in clause 19.2(c)(i) until the
expiration of all defects correction periods under this Agreement.
(iv) Where possible under the relevant law of the State or Territory or other jurisdiction
governing workers' compensation insurance, each Non-Owner Participant must
procure an extension to the policy referred to in clause 19.2(c)(i) to indemnify the
Owner Participant as principal for the Owner Participant's liability, under any
statute relating to workers’ or accident compensation, to persons engaged by the
Non-Owner Participant (and their dependants) and provide a waiver of all rights of
subrogation, action or relief against the Owner Participant. The policy must
provide a common law limit that is at least customary in such state, territory or
country.
20. Insurance – general
20.1 Claims procedures
(a) The Non-Owner Participants must immediately notify the Owner Participant in writing of
any occurrence or incident that may, however remotely, give rise to a claim under an
insurance policy taken out by the Owner Participant or of any other matter or thing for
which those policies require notice to be given. A notice must include reasonable
particulars of the occurrence, incident, matter or thing.
(b) Claims made against insurance policies taken out by the Owner Participant must be
submitted to the Owner Participant for lodgement by the Owner Participant with its insurer.
The Owner Participant may engage any legal advisor, insurance broker or loss adjuster it
considers appropriate to assist the Owner Participant in relation to a claim under an
insurance policy taken out by the Owner Participant under this Agreement and the Non-
Owner Participants acknowledge that the Owner Participant may settle, address,
compromise, resolve or deal with any claim made against an insurance policy taken out by
the Owner Participant in any manner it considers appropriate. The Non-Owner Participants
must give all assistance and provide all information to the Owner Participant and the Owner
Participant's insurer, legal advisor, insurance broker and loss adjuster as may be reasonably
practicable in all the circumstances.
(c) If an event occurs which in the opinion of a reasonable person in the position of a Non-
Owner Participant may give rise to a claim involving the Owner Participant under any
policy of insurance required to be taken out by the Non-Owner Participants in accordance
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with clause 19.2, that Non-Owner Participant must notify the Owner Participant in writing
and must ensure that the Owner Participant is kept fully informed of subsequent action or
developments concerning the claim.
20.2 Participants' responsibilities
At all times the Participants (to the extent applicable) are responsible for complying with the terms
and conditions of the policies taken out under this Agreement and must ensure that their employees,
Subcontractors and Subcontractors’ employees are made aware of, and comply with, those terms
and conditions.
20.3 Obligation to notify and assist
(a) Each Participant must immediately notify in writing the other Participants of any relevant
changes to the terms and conditions of the insurance policies it is required to maintain
under this Agreement including changes to the available coverage or limits, but only to the
extent that the relevant Participant’s insurance policy does not comply with the insurance
requirements specified in this Agreement.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants must provide the Owner Participant with all reasonable
assistance and all information reasonably required by the Owner Participant within the
timeframes and in the format specified by the Owner Participant to enable the Owner
Participant to obtain, effect and maintain the policies referred to in clause 19.1.
20.4 Payment of excesses
(a) The Owner Participant is responsible for the payment of the excesses applicable to those
policies effected by the Owner Participant under clause 19.1 and which, for the avoidance
of doubt, will be treated as a Direct Cost. The payment of any excess in accordance with
this paragraph (a) will not alter or lead to a change to the Direct Cost Target.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants are responsible for the payment of the excesses applicable to
those policies effected by the Non-Owner Participants under clause 19.2 which, for the
avoidance of doubt, will be treated as a Direct Cost. The payment of any excess in
accordance with this paragraph (b) will not alter or lead to a change to the Direct Cost
Target.
20.5 Proof of insurance and inspection of insurance policies
(a) Each Participant must make available for inspection by the other Participants certificates of
currency for insurance required by this Agreement to be taken out by that Participant and
any Subcontractors engaged by that Participant.
(b) Whenever requested by a Participant, the other Participants must produce certificates of
currency to the satisfaction of the requesting Participant of the insurance taken out under
this Agreement.
(c) To comply with this clause 20.5, a Participant is not required to do any act or thing which
may constitute a breach of the insurance policy.
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20.6 Owner Participant to be informed of notices
Each Non-Owner Participant must ensure that every insurance policy taken out by it under this
Agreement includes a provision that requires the Non-Owner Participant, whenever the insurer gives
to or serves upon the Non-Owner Participant or Subcontractor a notice of cancellation or any other
notice under or in relation to the policy of insurance, as soon as possible, to inform the Owner
Participant in writing that the notice has been given to or served upon that Non-Owner Participant or
Subcontractor.
20.7 Notice is notice by all insureds
(a) Each Non-Owner Participant must ensure that every insurance policy taken out by it under
this Agreement contains a provision that provides that a notice of the occurrence of an
event out of which the particular insured giving the notice alleges it has suffered, or could
suffer, loss or damage or incur a liability must be accepted by the insurer as a notice of the
occurrence given by all the insureds.
(b) Main Roads must use its best endeavours to procure that in respect of every insurance
policy taken out by it under clause 19.1 a notice of the occurrence of an event out of which
the particular insured giving the notice alleges it has suffered, or could suffer, loss or
damage or incur a liability is accepted by the insurer as a notice of the occurrence given by
all the insureds.
20.8 Obligations to remain unchanged
Taking out and keeping in force insurance required by this Agreement does not in any way limit the
liabilities, responsibilities and obligations of the Participants under other provisions of this
Agreement.
20.9 Non-compliance
Notwithstanding clause 4.1, if any Participant does not follow a written request from another
Participant to fulfil and comply with its obligations under clauses 19, 20 and 21, the Participant
making the request may take action it considers appropriate to ensure that the non-compliant
Participant complies.
20.10 Pass through of insurance payouts
(a) Subject to paragraph (b), to the extent that a Non-Owner Participant receives payment
under an insurance policy that reimburses any amounts that were reimbursed or are
reimbursable under this Agreement, then the Non-Owner Participant must within 20
Business Days of receipt of that payment pass on full payment to the Owner Participant.
(b) Notwithstanding that a Non-Owner Participant may have lodged a claim under an insurance
policy required to be effected and maintained by the Owner Participant, the Owner
Participant may require its insurer to make payment directly to the Owner Participant in
respect of any claim for loss or damage to the Works.
(c) Notwithstanding clause 4.1, the Owner Participant may commence proceedings to recover
any amounts payable to it under paragraph (a) if that amount is not paid by the Non-Owner
Participants within the time period referred to in paragraph (a).
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21. Review of insurances and Insurance Risk Management Plan
21.1 Review of Insurances
The Alliance Board must systematically and regularly review the insurances referred to in this
Agreement (including certificates of currency, the adequacy and appropriateness of the insurances
and levels of coverage and excesses applicable to those insurances).
21.2 Decision to be made by Alliance Board
(a) As part of the review, the Alliance Board must decide whether:
(i) any additional or alternative insurance policies are required;
(ii) whether any insurances policies in place at the time of the review are still required;
and
(iii) whether any consequential amendments must be made to this Agreement to reflect
any new or alternate arrangements agreed.
(b) To allow the Alliance Board to perform this function, the Participants must provide
certificates of currency and, to the extent that they are able, the insurance policies and
accompanying schedules they are required to take out under this Agreement to the Alliance
Board.
21.3 Implementation of recommendations
(a) The Alliance Board must, as soon as reasonably practicable after a review, notify any
recommendations for changes to the insurances to the relevant Participant.
(b) The relevant Participant must, within 10 Business Days of receiving notice from the
Alliance Board, commence negotiations with its underwriters in an attempt to amend the
insurances to reflect the recommendations of the Alliance Board.
(c) The relevant Participant must promptly notify the Alliance Board if it is unable to, or it
becomes apparent that it will be unable to, comply with the recommendations of the
Alliance Board.
(d) The Alliance Board must decide what action, if any, is to be taken following receipt of this
notification.
(e) The Alliance Board must decide whether any cost incurred by a Participant in complying
with a recommendation made under this clause is a Direct Cost and whether any change is
required to the Direct Cost Target.
21.4 Insurance Risk Management Plan
(a) As part of the systematic and regular review required to be undertaken by the Alliance
Board under this clause, the Alliance Board must, no later than 20 Business Days after the
Effective Date, start to develop an insurance risk management plan (Insurance Risk
Management Plan).
(b) The Insurance Risk Management Plan must set out, as a minimum, the policies, procedures
and guidelines to be adopted by the Participants to ensure compliance by the Participants
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and their Subcontractors with the insurances taken out by the Participants under this
Agreement.
(c) The Insurance Risk Management Plan must be completed 60 Business Days after the
Effective Date, or a later date on which the Participants may agree.
22. Indemnities
22.1 Non compliance with insurance requirements
(a) Each Non-Owner Participant indemnifies and must keep indemnified the Owner Participant
and the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Owner Participant against losses,
damages or claims suffered by the Owner Participant and the directors, officers, employees
and agents of the Owner Participant as a consequence of non compliance by a Non-Owner
Participant with the terms and conditions of clauses 19, 20 and 21, or the terms and
conditions of the insurance policies required to be taken out and maintained by the
Participants under this Agreement.
(b) The Owner Participant indemnifies and must keep indemnified each Non-Owner
Participant and the directors, officers, employees and agents of each Non-Owner Participant
against losses, damages or claims suffered by each Non-Owner Participant and the
directors, officers, employees and agents of each Non-Owner Participant as a consequence
of non-compliance by the Owner Participant with the terms and conditions of clauses 19,
20 and 21, or the terms and conditions of the insurance policies required to be taken out and
maintained by the Participants under this Agreement.
22.2 Wilful Default
(a) The Non-Owner Participants indemnify and must keep indemnified the Owner Participant
and the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Owner Participant against losses,
damages or claims suffered by the Owner Participant and the directors, officers, employees
and agents of the Owner Participant as a consequence of or arising from any Wilful Default
by a Non-Owner Participant.
(b) The Owner Participant indemnifies and must keep indemnified the Non-Owner Participants
and the directors, officers, employees and agents of the Non-Owner Participants against
losses, damages or claims suffered by the Non-Owner Participants and the directors,
officers, employees and agents of the Non-Owner Participants as a consequence of or
arising from any Wilful Default by the Owner Participant.
22.3 Proportionate liability
(a) The liability of the Non-Owner Participants under the indemnities contained in
clauses 22.1(a) and 22.2(a) is reduced proportionately to the extent that an act or omission
of the Owner Participant, its directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors or
Subcontractors may have contributed to the loss, damage or claim.
(b) The liability of the Owner Participant under the indemnities contained in clauses 22.1(b)
and 22.2(b) is reduced proportionately to the extent that an act or omission of a Non-Owner
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Participant, its directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors or Subcontractors may
have contributed to the loss, damage or claim.
22.4 Insurance obligations are primary
For the avoidance of doubt, the insurances required to be taken out and maintained by the
Participants under this Agreement are primary and not secondary to the indemnities referred to in
this clause 22.
23. Limits of liability
23.1 Total liability of Non-Owner Participants to Main Roads
Subject to clause 24, the total liability of the Non-Owner Participants to Main Roads (whether as the
client or as the Owner Participant) for any losses or damages by reason of any claims (including
negligence claims) arising out of or in connection with this Agreement is limited in the aggregate for
all claims to the sum of:
(a)
(b)
23.2 Total liability of Main Roads to Non-Owner Participants
Subject to clause 24, the total liability of Main Roads (whether as the client or as the Owner
Participant) to the Non-Owner Participants for any losses or damages by reason of any claims
(including negligence claims) arising out of or in connection with this Agreement is limited in the
aggregate for all claims to the sum of:
(a)
(b)
23.3 No liability for Consequential Loss
Subject to clause 24 (except to the extent that Consequential Loss is covered and is recoverable
under a policy of insurance taken out under this Agreement, in which case a Participant will be
liable), no Participant will be liable to another Participant (including to Main Roads whether as the
client or as the Owner Participant) for any Consequential Loss sustained by a Participant, whether
caused by that Participant’s breach of this Agreement, negligence or otherwise.
23.4 Exclusion of Civil Liability Act
(a) Except as provided in clause 22.3, the operation of Part 1F of the Civil Liability Act 2002
(WA) is excluded as to all and any rights, obligations and liabilities arising under or in
connection with this Agreement and irrespective of whether such rights, obligations or
liabilities are sought to be enforced as a breach of contract or claim in tort (including
negligence), in equity, under statute or otherwise at law.
(b) Without limiting paragraph (a), it is further agreed that the rights, obligations and liabilities
of the Participants (including those relating to proportionate liability) are as specified in this
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Agreement and not otherwise whether such rights, obligations and liabilities are sought to
be enforced as a breach of contract or claim in tort (including negligence), in equity, under
statute or otherwise at law.
24. When limits of liability do not apply
24.1 Wilful Default
The limits of liability set out in clause 23 do not apply to claims brought by a Participant for losses
or damages suffered by that Participant arising out of or in connection with a Wilful Default by
another Participant.
24.2 Failure to comply with insurance obligations
The limits of liability set out in clause 23 do not apply to a Participant if:
(a) the Participant has failed (other than where the failure is due to the Wilful Default of a
Participant in which case clause 24 will apply) to take out an insurance policy covering the
claim where such an insurance policy was required to be taken out by that Participant in
accordance with clauses 19.1 or 19.2 (as the case may be); or
(b) because of any act or omission of that Participant (other than an act or omission amounting
to a Wilful Default of that Participant in which case clause 24.1 will apply), an insurance
policy taken out by the Owner Participant or the Non-Owner Participants in accordance
with clauses 19.1 or 19.2 (as the case may be) for the purposes of covering such a claim
fails to respond to the claim,
in which case the limit of liability will be:
(c) in the case of Main Roads (whether as client or the Owner Participant), the sum of:
(i)
(ii)
(d) in the case of the Non-Owner Participants, the sum of:
(i)
(ii)
24.3 Non-payment of Excluded Amounts
The limits of liability in clause 23 do not apply to the non-payment of Excluded Amounts.
24.4 Limits of liability are separate from limits under the risk/reward regime
The limits of liability in clause 23 are separate from, do not relate to and are not limited, voided or
compromised by any cap or limit imposed on the Non-Owner Participants’ obligation to pay any
Cost Performance Amount or KRA Performance Amount to Main Roads under the Performance
Payment methodology in Schedule 4 and this Agreement.
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25. Suspension
25.1 Suspension by the Participants
The Participants may only suspend the whole or any part of the Works with prior written agreement
from Main Roads unless there is, or there is a real risk of:
(a)
(b) an adverse impact on Aboriginal Heritage.
25.2 Suspension by Main Roads
If Main Roads considers that suspension of the whole or part of the Works is necessary or
appropriate for any reason, Main Roads may direct the Participants in writing to immediately
suspend the progress of the whole or part of the Works for the period specified by Main Roads in
writing, and the Participants must promptly suspend the Works.
Specific instances where Main Roads may suspend the whole or part of the Works include:
(a) acquisition of land by Main Roads being delayed by more than three months and
construction of the Works being unable to be rescheduled to accommodate the delay;
(b) unexpected Aboriginal Heritage issues delaying the Works by more than three months and
construction of the Works being unable to be rescheduled to accommodate the delay; and
(c)
25.3 Suspension costs
(a) If Main Roads directs suspension (other than as a result of a breach of this Agreement by a
Non-Owner Participant), Main Roads must continue to pay any Direct Costs reasonably
and actually incurred during the period of suspension and the Corporate Overhead and
Profit in respect of those costs. Any Direct Costs paid by Main Roads in respect of the
period of suspension will be known as 'Suspension Costs'.
(b) The total of all Suspension Costs paid by Main Roads must be added to the Direct Cost
Target so that the Direct Cost Target is increased for the purposes of the calculation of any
Cost Performance Amount.
25.4 Recommencement
When Main Roads chooses, Main Roads may direct the Participants to recommence the whole or the
relevant part of the Works and the Participants must recommence the Works at the time directed by
Main Roads or, if no time is stated, within a reasonable time after the direction.
26. No fault termination
26.1 No fault termination
Main Roads may terminate this Agreement at any time by serving a notice on the Non-Owner
Participants.
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26.2 Termination payment
(a) If Main Roads elects to terminate this Agreement under clause 26.1, subject to Main Roads'
rights under or in connection with this Agreement, Main Roads must pay the Non-Owner
Participants, or the Non-Owner Participants must pay Main Roads (as the case may be), an
amount calculated or decided under Schedule 2. The Participants must take all reasonable
steps to minimise and mitigate any costs incurred by them arising from termination of this
Agreement under clause 26.1.
(b) Upon payment of any termination payment by Main Roads to the Non-Owner Participants
or the Non-Owner Participants to Main Roads (as the case may be) under this clause 26.2,
Main Roads and the Non-Owner Participants must enter into a deed of release under which,
subject to clause 33.14 which survives termination of this Agreement, each of Main Roads
and the Non-Owner Participants:
(i) agree that all payments required to be made by Main Roads or by the Non-Owner
Participants (as the case may be) in respect of this Agreement have been made in
full; and
(ii) release each other from any claims arising out of or in connection with this
Agreement.
27. Termination for default and repudiation
27.1 Events of Default
Subject to clause 27.3, if any of the Participants or, where appropriate, Main Roads (Defaulting
Participant):
(a) commits a Wilful Default;
(b) commits any material breach of clauses 18.4, 18.5, 22 or 33.8 of this Agreement, whether
or not amounting to a Wilful Default; or
(c) is the subject of an Insolvency Event,
(each a default),
then the non-defaulting Participants may give notice to the Defaulting Participant of:
(d) the default and of their intention to exercise their rights under clause 27.3 on the expiration
of 15 Business Days if the default is capable of being rectified but is not rectified within the
15 Business Days period; or
(e) their intention to exercise their rights under clause 27.3 immediately if the default is not
capable of being rectified, or in the case of an Insolvency Event.
A notice given under this clause 27.1 must specify that it is a default notice under this clause.
27.2 Defaulting Participant
For the purposes of clause 27.1(b), a Participant is only deemed to be a Defaulting Participant for
the purposes of this clause 27 where:
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(a) the relevant material breach or failure to perform, as the case may be, relates to a particular
duty, obligation, term or condition arising out of, or connected with, this Agreement
(Stipulation);
(b) the Alliance Board has, in writing and with express reference to this clause 27.2, allocated
responsibility and performance of the Stipulation to the Participant in question; and
(c) the Participant in question has committed a material breach in respect of all or part of that
Stipulation.
27.3 Failure to remedy
(a) If:
(i) the Defaulting Participant fails within 15 Business Days after receipt of a notice
given under clause 27.1(d) to either remedy a default or in writing show (to the
satisfaction of the non-defaulting Participants) that reasonable progress has been
made in rectifying the default; or
(ii) if the non-defaulting Participants give notice under clause 27.1(e),
then, subject to clause 27.3(b):
(iii) where Main Roads is not in default, Main Roads may, without prejudice to its
rights under this Agreement or otherwise, at any time thereafter wholly or partly
suspend the Defaulting Participant’s portion of any payment due to the Non-
Owner Participants under this Agreement until the default has been remedied to
the satisfaction of the non-defaulting Participants; or
(iv) the non-defaulting Participants may, without prejudice to their rights under this
Agreement or otherwise, terminate this Agreement by notice to the Defaulting
Participant.
(b) Where:
(i) the Defaulting Participant is not Main Roads; and
(ii) the non-defaulting Participants are entitled to exercise their rights under
clause 27.3(a) but have not exercised those rights,
the non-defaulting Participants may, subject to the approval of Main Roads and without
prejudice to their rights under this Agreement or otherwise, by joint notice exclude the
Defaulting Participant from further participation in the performance of any of the Works
and step-in and assume the rights and obligations allocated to the Defaulting Participant, in
which case the provisions of clause 27.4 will apply.
27.4 Exclusion from further participation in this Agreement
If the non-defaulting Participants exclude the Defaulting Participant from further participation in the
performance of any of the Works and this Agreement by notice under clause 27.3:
(a) the non-defaulting Participants may employ and pay other persons to replace the Defaulting
Participant in the performance of the Works and may use all Temporary Works and
Construction Plant provided by the Defaulting Participant and necessary to perform the
Works;
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(b) the Defaulting Participant will, if required by the non-defaulting Participants, promptly
assign or novate to Main Roads, without payment, the benefit of any agreements for the
performance of any part of the Works;
(c) as and when required by Main Roads (and not before), the Defaulting Participant will
remove from the Site any Temporary Works, Construction Plant and other property
provided by the Defaulting Participant. If the Defaulting Participant fails to do so not less
than 15 Business Days after notice to it of the non-defaulting Participants' intention to do so
(but without being responsible for any loss or damage), the non-defaulting Participants may
remove and/or sell any such Temporary Works, Construction Plant or other property;
(d) the non-defaulting Participants may execute all deeds and documents and will do all such
things on behalf of the Defaulting Participant, including making decisions on behalf of the
Defaulting Participant’s representatives at the Alliance Board, as are necessary for the
performance of the Works; and
(e) to enable the execution of deeds and documents under paragraph (d), the Defaulting
Participant by this Agreement irrevocably authorises any directors, managers or officers of
the non-defaulting Participants to act as its attorneys for the purpose of executing deeds and
documents and doing all things of that kind. The non-defaulting Participants must act
reasonably in the performance of any right permitted under this paragraph (e).
Notwithstanding the exclusion of the Defaulting Participant from further participation in the
performance of the Works and this Agreement by notice under clause 27.3(b), the Defaulting
Participant will continue to be subject to the requirements of clauses 4, 17, 18, 20.1, 20.10, 22, 23,
24, 27.4, 27.5, 28, 31, 32 and 33 and Schedule 2.
27.5 Loss and damage
(a) If the non-defaulting Participants elect to terminate this Agreement under
clause 27.3(a)(iv), or exclude the Defaulting Participant under clause 27.3(b), then
notwithstanding clause 4.1, subject only to clause 23, the non-defaulting Participants may
recover from the Defaulting Participant any and all losses, damages, costs and expenses
suffered by the non-defaulting Participants arising out of any, all, or any combination of:
(i) the default or non performance;
(ii) any exclusion under this clause 27; or
(iii) termination under this clause 27.
(b) If one of the Participants repudiates this Agreement, then notwithstanding clause 4.1 and
subject only to clause 23, nothing in this Agreement prejudices the other Participants’ rights
to recover damages or to exercise any other right in connection with that repudiation.
28. Consequences of termination
28.1 Termination
A reference in this clause 28 to termination means termination of the Agreement for any reason
whatever.
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28.2 Work to cease
Upon termination, the Participants must immediately cease the Works.
28.3 Consequences of notice of termination
(a) Upon termination, the Participants must immediately, to the extent each of the following is
applicable, comply with any directions by Main Roads including and to the extent directed,
to:
(i) protect property in the possession of the Non-Owner Participants in which Main
Roads has or may acquire an interest;
(ii) demobilise from the Site persons, Construction Plant, vehicles, equipment and
other things;
(iii) assign or novate to Main Roads all rights and benefits under contracts with Third
Parties; and
(iv) provide Main Roads with IP Documents and Design. For the avoidance of doubt
and subject to Participant 2’s obligations under clause 33.8, nothing in this clause
operates to prevent Participant 2 from keeping a bona fide copy of the IP
Documents and Design for its records.
(b) Without limiting any other obligation of the Participants, where this Agreement is
terminated by Main Roads for default by a Non-Owner Participant, the Participants must
provide Main Roads with possession of all Materials, Construction Plant, Temporary
Works, vehicles, equipment and other things on the Site or off-Site, which are required by
Main Roads for the purpose of, and for such time as necessary, to make the Works safe.
28.4 Works continuation
Without limiting any other rights of the Participants under this Agreement, if this Agreement is
terminated for any reason whatever, the Non-Owner Participants acknowledge that Main Roads may
continue with the Works either:
(a) with parties other than the Non-Owner Participants; or
(b) on an alliance, conventional contractual or any other basis that Main Roads may decide,
and the Non-Owner Participants must do all things and execute all further documents necessary to
ensure that Main Roads is free to continue with the Works in the manner set out in this clause 28.4
within the time period prescribed by Main Roads.
29. Security
29.1 Type of security
(a) Within 20 Business Days from the Effective Date, the Non-Owner Participants must
provide security:
(i) in the form of an irrevocable and unconditional bank guarantee, insurance bond, or
both in favour of Main Roads;
(ii) from a financial institution with a credit rating acceptable to Main Roads;
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(iii) payable in Australian dollars; and
(iv) on terms and conditions acceptable to Main Roads,
as security for performance by the Non-Owner Participants of their respective terms,
covenants and responsibilities under this Agreement.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants acknowledge that all security required to be provided by them
under this Agreement will at all times be provided by each Non-Owner Participant in the
following proportions:
(i) Participant 1 –
(ii) Participant 2 –
(iii) Participant 3 –
(iv) Participant 4 –
(v) Participant 5 – and
(vi) Participant 6 –
(c) The security, including the amount and terms of operation, applies irrespective of clause 23.
If the Non-Owner Participants provide any security under this clause that is due to expire
prior to the completion of the Works, the Alliance Board must meet at least 6 months prior
to the expiration and determine what security arrangement must be made by the Participants
to ensure compliance with this clause.
29.2 Amount of security
The total amount of security to be provided by the Non-Owner Participants to Main Roads under
this Agreement is
29.3 Demand on security
Main Roads may make a demand or call on the security referred to in clause 29.1 where:
(a) any of the Non-Owner Participants, in the reasonable opinion of Main Roads, commits a
default (as that term is defined in clause 27.1) or commits any material breach of this
Agreement (whether or not amounting to a default for the purposes of clause 27.1)
(Defaulting Non-Owner Participant);
(b) Main Roads has given the Defaulting Non-Owner Participant 15 Business Days' notice of
Main Roads’ intention to make a demand under the security referred to in clause 29.1; and
(c) where the default or material breach of this Agreement is:
(i) capable of being remedied within the 15 Business Day period specified in
paragraph (b) and the Defaulting Non-Owner Participant has failed to either:
(A) remedy the default or material breach of this Agreement; or
(B) in writing show (to the satisfaction of Main Roads) that reasonable
progress has been made in rectifying the default or material breach of this
Agreement;
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(ii) not capable of being rectified, and 15 Business Days have elapsed since the notice
under paragraph (b) was given; or
(iii) capable of being remedied within a period greater than a 15 Business Day period
specified in paragraph (b) and the Defaulting Non-Owner Participant has failed to
in writing show (to the satisfaction of Main Roads) that reasonable progress has
been made in rectifying the default or material breach of this Agreement.
29.4 Return of security
If the Non-Owner Participants have performed all of their obligations under this Agreement as at the
date the contents of the Final Certificate are agreed by Main Roads and the Non-Owner Participants,
then Main Roads will return to the Non-Owner Participants the security provided by the Non-Owner
Participants within 20 Business Days of the date the contents of the Final Certificate are agreed.
29.5 Costs of establishing security
All costs of establishing the security referred to above and maintaining that security will be Direct
Costs. However, the amount of any call made on one or more of the Non-Owner Participants by the
financial institution(s) which issue the security in respect of a payment made to Main Roads under
the security and the cost of such calls, will not be a Direct Cost but will be the responsibility of the
Non-Owner Participants concerned.
29.6 Parent Company Guarantee
(a) Main Roads may have recourse to the Parent Company Guarantee in the circumstances
contemplated by the Parent Company Guarantee.
(b) Participant 1 must ensure that, from the Effective Date until the end of the Term, the Parent
Company Guarantee is maintained in the terms specified in Schedule 13 and is otherwise
kept in full force and effect.
(c) Any agreement between the provider of the Parent Company Guarantee and Main Roads
with respect to any demands made and amounts paid by the provider to Main Roads under
the Parent Company Guarantee is without prejudice to Main Roads’ right to make
continuing claims against the Non-Owner Participants for matters for which the Parent
Company Guarantee is provided.
30. Force Majeure
30.1 Definition of Force Majeure Event
Force Majeure Event means an event set out in paragraphs (a) – (i) below which is beyond the
reasonable control of the relevant Participant:
(a) war, invasion, act of foreign enemies, hostilities (whether war is declared or not), civil war,
rebellion, revolution, insurrection or military or usurped powers, martial law or confiscation
by order of any Government Agency or public authority;
(b) ionising radiations or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any
nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel;
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(c) an act of a public enemy, including lawful or unlawful protests by members of the public
which substantially interfere with or disrupt the delivery of the Project;
(d) an industrial dispute other than industrial disputes which are confined to the relevant
Participant, any Subcontractor, the Site or the Works;
(e) pressure waves caused by aircraft or other aerial devices travelling at sonic or supersonic
speeds;
(f) earthquake, cyclone, or other physical disaster or act of God;
(g) fire or explosion (including radioactive and toxic explosion);
(h) aviation disaster; and
(i) a Terrorist Act as defined in the Terrorism Insurance Act 2003 (Cth),
but does not include:
(j) any event which could have been prevented or overcome by the exercise by the relevant
Participant of the standard of a reasonable and prudent person;
(k) any event which was caused by the relevant Participant or contributed to by the relevant
Participant, to the extent of the contribution;
(l) lack of funds for any reason; or
(m) inability to use available funds.
For the purposes of this definition, the relevant Participant is the Participant who is prevented from
complying with its obligations under this Agreement (other than an obligation to pay money).
30.2 Effect of Force Majeure Event
(a) Where a Force Majeure Event occurs which, notwithstanding the taking of all practicable
care and precautionary steps, prevents a Participant from complying with its obligations
under this Agreement (other than an obligation to pay money), the Alliance Board must
promptly meet and decide how, and under what conditions, if any, the Works are to
proceed.
(b) In making a decision under this clause 30.2, the Alliance Board may, where appropriate and
without limiting any of its other rights under this Agreement, recommend to Main Roads
for approval (or otherwise) that:
(i) the Direct Cost Target be altered;
(ii) the applicable Date for Practical Completion be altered; or
(iii) this Agreement be terminated and specify the consequences which flow from such
a termination under the principles of this Agreement.
31. Intellectual Property
31.1 Ownership of Pre-existing Intellectual Property
(a) Ownership of Intellectual Property in any drawings, documents, any other information,
samples, models, patterns, ideas, policies, procedures, methods, processes, materials or any
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other tangible or intangible thing required by this Agreement existing prior to the Effective
Date relating to or connected with the Works (Pre-existing Intellectual Property
Materials) remains with the Participant who created the Pre-existing Intellectual Property
Materials.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants grant to Main Roads an irrevocable, non-exclusive, world-
wide, perpetual, transferable, royalty free licence to use the Non-Owner Participants’ Pre-
existing Intellectual Property Materials for:
(i) the Works; and
(ii) otherwise, but only to the extent necessary to use the Intellectual Property Assets
(as that term is defined in clause 31.3(a)).
(c) Main Roads grants to the Non-Owner Participants an irrevocable, non-exclusive, world-
wide, perpetual, transferable, royalty free licence to use Main Roads’ Pre-existing
Intellectual Property Materials for the Works.
(d) The Participants must do everything necessary to effect the grant of the licences set out in
paragraphs (b) and (c) and the Alliance Board must decide the manner in which any costs
associated with that vesting will be borne by the Participants.
31.2 Enhancements to Pre-Existing Intellectual Property
(a) Any enhancement, adaptation, change, modification or development of Pre-Existing
Intellectual Property Materials (Enhancements) will be the property of the Participant that
owns the Pre-Existing Intellectual Property Rights. Ownership will vest immediately upon
the creation of the Enhancement.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants grant to Main Roads an irrevocable, non-exclusive, world-
wide, perpetual, transferable, royalty free licence to use the Non-Owner Participants’
Enhancements to their Pre-existing Intellectual Property Materials for:
(i) the Works; and
(ii) otherwise, but only to the extent necessary to use the Intellectual Property Assets
(as that term is defined in clause 31.3(a)).
(c) Main Roads grant to the Non-Owner Participants an irrevocable, non-exclusive, world-
wide, perpetual, transferable, royalty free licence to use Main Roads’ Enhancements to its
Pre-existing Intellectual Property Materials for the Works.
(d) The Participants must do everything necessary to effect the grant of the licences set out in
paragraphs (b) and (c) and the Alliance Board must decide the manner in which any costs
associated with that vesting will be borne by the Participants.
31.3 Ownership of other Intellectual Property
(a) Intellectual Property in any:
(i) drawings, documents, any other information, samples, models, patterns and the
like required by this Agreement (including those prepared or created by the Non-
Owner Participants) (IP Documents); and
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(ii) idea, policy, procedure, method, process, materials or any other tangible or
intangible thing first discovered or developed during the course of carrying out the
Works,
created on or after the Effective Date by any of the Participants and relating to or connected
with the Works (collectively, Intellectual Property Assets) vests in Main Roads, and Main
Roads grants to the Non-Owner Participants an irrevocable, non-exclusive, world wide,
perpetual, transferable, royalty free licence to use the Intellectual Property Assets for:
(iii) the Works; and
(iv) any other purpose relating to a Non-Owner Participant’s business.
(b) Each of the Participants must do everything necessary to perfect the vesting set out in the
previous paragraph and the Alliance Board must decide the manner in which any costs
associated with that vesting will be borne between the Participants.
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, Enhancements are not, and will not be deemed to be,
Intellectual Property Assets.
31.4 Grant of sub licence
(a) Where a Non-Owner Participant is the licensee of any Intellectual Property necessary for
the purposes of the use of the Pre-existing Intellectual Property Materials or the Intellectual
Property Assets, that Non-Owner Participant must use its best endeavours to obtain for
Main Roads a sub licence of that Intellectual Property on terms and conditions reasonably
acceptable to the Owner Participant.
(b) A request by a Non-Owner Participant to obtain an intellectual property sub licence for a
Non-Owner Participant under paragraph (a) must be expressed in writing.
(c) The Alliance Board must decide the manner in which any costs associated with the sub
licence will be borne by the Participants.
31.5 Warranty by Participants
(a) The Participants warrant to each other that they own, or have a licence to use, the
Intellectual Property in those of the Pre-existing Intellectual Property Materials and IP
Documents (and anything contributed by them in the preparation of the Pre-existing
Intellectual Property Materials and IP Documents), provided by them.
(b) The Participants warrant to each other that the Pre-existing Intellectual Property Materials
and IP Documents and the Works do not infringe any other person’s Intellectual Property
rights.
(c) These warranties survive the termination of this Agreement.
31.6 Protection of Participants’ Intellectual Property
A Participant must:
(a) notify the other Participants immediately if it becomes aware of any infringement or
potential infringement by a Third Party of any Participant’s Intellectual Property; and
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(b) take all timely steps necessary to ensure that its agents, employees or Subcontractors who
have access to the Participant’s Intellectual Property or any part of it do not use the
Participant’s Intellectual Property, except under this clause.
31.7 Moral rights
If the Participants, in the course of the Works, make use of any work or other subject matter in
which copyright subsists, the Participants must procure from every person (whether an employee of
a Participant or any Subcontractor or consultant) involved in the creation of that work or subject
matter an agreement from that person for the benefit of each Participant and each Government
Agency under which that person irrevocably and unconditionally consents to each Participant:
(a) using, disclosing, reproducing or publishing that work or subject matter anywhere in the
world in whatever form each Participant thinks fit as so used, disclosed, reproduced or
published; and
(b) using, disclosing, reproducing or publishing that work or subject matter or any adaptation
anywhere in the world without making any identification of that person in relation to the
work or subject matter.
31.8 Saving
Notwithstanding clause 4.1, a failure by:
(a) the Non-Owner Participants to comply with the requirements of this clause confers on Main
Roads; or
(b) Main Roads to comply with the requirements of this clause confers on the Non-Owner
Participants,
gives rise to an enforceable right at law or in equity to seek any one of or a combination of specific
performance, injunction or damages and, to the extent that any right under a Statutory Requirement
may be excluded this Agreement, any right under that Statutory Requirement.
32. Notices
32.1 All Notices
Any notice, demand, consent or other communication (Notice) given or made under this Agreement
(unless it is given or made under clause 32.2):
(a) must be in writing and signed by the sender or a person duly authorised by the sender;
(b) must be delivered to the intended recipient by prepaid post (if posted to an address in
another country, by registered airmail) or by hand to the address for that recipient in
Schedule 6 or as otherwise specified by a recipient by Notice; and
(c) will be conclusively taken to be duly given or made:
(i) in the case of delivery in person, when delivered; and
(ii) in the case of delivery by post, 2 Business Days after the date of posting (if posted
to an address in the same country) or 7 Business Days after the date of posting (if
posted to an address in another country),
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but if the result is that a Notice would be taken to be given or made on a day that is not a
Business Day in the place to which the Notice is sent or is later than 4pm (local time) it will
be conclusively taken to have been duly given or made at the start of business on the next
Business Day in that place.
32.2 Notices by email
(a) Any Notice which may be made or given under this Agreement may instead be sent by
email if the Notice:
(i) is sent by a person clearly authorised by the sender;
(ii) is sent to the Participant's email address in Schedule 6 or as otherwise specified by
the Participant by Notice; and
(iii) the sender keeps an electronic copy of the Notice sent.
(b) The recipient of a Notice sent under this clause 32.2 must promptly acknowledge receipt of
a Notice sent under this clause and must keep an electronic copy of the Notice.
32.3 Receipt of Notices sent by email
A Notice sent under clause 32.2 will be conclusively taken to be duly given or made on the first to
occur of:
(a) a receipt by the sender of an email acknowledgement from the recipient's information
system showing that the Notice has been delivered to the Participant's email address in
Schedule 6 or as otherwise specified by a Participant by Notice;
(b) the time that the Notice enters an information system which is under the control of the
recipient; and
(c) the time that the Notice is first opened or read by the recipient,
but if the result is that a Notice would be taken to be given or made on a day that is not a Business
Day in the place to which the Notice is sent or is later than 4pm (local time) it will be conclusively
taken to have been duly given or made at the start of business on the next Business Day in that
place.
33. General
33.1 Governing law and jurisdiction
(a) This Agreement is governed by the law in force in Western Australia.
(b) Each Participant irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts exercising
jurisdiction in Western Australia and courts of appeal from those in respect of any
proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Agreement. Each Participant
irrevocably waives any objection to the venue of any legal process in these courts on the
basis that the process has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
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33.2 Invalidity and enforceability
If any term or part of this Agreement is or becomes for any reason invalid or unenforceable at law,
then in that event, that term or part of this Agreement will be and be hereby deemed to be severed
from this Agreement without thereby affecting the remainder of this Agreement and the remainder
of this Agreement will continue to be valid and enforceable in all things.
33.3 Waiver
(a) No Participant to this Agreement may rely on the words or conduct of any other Participant
as a waiver of any right unless the waiver is in writing and signed by the Participant
granting the waiver.
(b) In this clause 33.3:
(i) conduct includes delay in the exercise of a right;
(ii) right means any right arising under or in connection with this Agreement and
includes the right to rely on this clause; and
(iii) waiver includes an election between rights and remedies, and conduct which might
otherwise give rise to an estoppel.
33.4 Amendments
Amendment of this Agreement must be in writing and signed by the Participants.
33.5 Entire agreement
This Agreement states all the express terms of the agreement between the Participants in respect of
its subject matter. It supersedes all prior discussions, negotiations, understandings and agreements in
respect of its subject matter.
33.6 Counterparts
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts. All counterparts together will be
taken to constitute one instrument.
33.7 Assignment
(a) Subject to clause 33.7(b), a Non-Owner Participant must not, without Main Roads’ prior
written approval (which must not be unreasonably withheld), assign, mortgage, novate,
charge or encumber this Agreement or any part of it or any right, benefit, money or interest
under this Agreement.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants may assign to a financial institution all or part of their rights,
title and interest in relation to any payments or amounts payable to the Non-Owner
Participants under this Agreement without the prior written approval of Main Roads.
33.8 Confidentiality
(a) This Agreement, and any information relating to or arising from the Agreement, is
confidential, and the Participants may not disclose the Agreement, or any information
relating to or arising from the Agreement, to any person, unless that disclosure or that
information:
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(i) at the material time is in or enters the public domain through no fault, action or
omission of, or breach of this Agreement by, a Participant;
(ii) is required by any Statutory Requirement to be communicated to a person who is
authorised by any Statutory Requirement to receive it;
(iii) is necessarily made to a court, or to an arbitrator or administrative tribunal or to
legal counsel in the course of proceedings provided that, in the case of any
arbitration proceedings, the Participant concerned first obtains from each other
party to those proceedings an undertaking, enforceable by any Participant, that
each party must similarly not divulge or communicate, without Main Roads’
written consent, any information referred to in this clause 33.8;
(iv) is required to be disclosed to any Government Minister or Government Agency
whether in connection with the granting of any licence or otherwise;
(v) is to a servant, agent or contractor of the Participants, when that disclosure is
reasonably necessary for the conduct of this Agreement;
(vi) was consented to in writing by each of the other Participants; or
(vii) is required to be disclosed to the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ABN 98 008
624 691).
(b) Nothing in this Agreement prevents Main Roads from providing any information relating to
the Agreement or the Works to any Government Minister of the State of Western Australia
or to the Parliament of Western Australia or to any committee or sub-committee of that
Parliament in the context of any issue or enquiry that may be made concerning the
Agreement or the Works.
(c) For the purposes of section 275(6) of the PPSA, the Participants agree that, subject to the
permitted circumstances of disclosure under paragraphs (a)(i) – (a)(vii), no Participant may
disclose any information of the kind referred to in section 275(1) of the PPSA.
(d) Notwithstanding clause 4.1, a failure by a Participant to comply with the requirements of
this clause 33.8 confers on the other Participants an enforceable right at law or in equity to
seek any one of or a combination of specific performance, injunction or damages and, to the
extent that any right under an Act of Parliament may be excluded by this Agreement, under
that Act of Parliament.
33.9 Relationship of the Participants
(a) Nothing in this Agreement gives a Participant authority to bind any other Participant in any
way.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants are independent contractors of Main Roads. The employees,
agents and Subcontractors of the Non-Owner Participants will not be deemed to be
employees, agents or Subcontractors of Main Roads and each Participant must pay all costs
associated with its employees.
(c) This Agreement, and the project alliance relationship created by it, is not intended to create,
nor will it be construed as creating, any partnership, joint venture or fiduciary obligation
with regard to, or as between, the Participants.
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33.10 Corporate power and authority
Each Participant represents and warrants to the others that it has full power to enter into and perform
its obligations under this Agreement and that when executed it will constitute legal, valid and
binding obligations under its terms.
33.11 Financial difficulties
A Participant must immediately notify the other Participants in writing if it forms the opinion that it
will be unable to, or be unlikely to be able to, satisfy any of its financial obligations in relation to
this Agreement from the financial resources available, or likely to be available to it, at the time the
financial obligation is due.
33.12 Change in Control
Each Non-Owner Participant must notify Main Roads immediately upon becoming aware of a
Change in Control in respect of it or of the provider of the Parent Company Guarantee to be
provided under clause 29.6.
33.13 Main Roads’ statutory functions
Nothing contained in or implied by this Agreement or any document contemplated by this
Agreement has the effect of constraining:
(a) Main Roads or placing any fetter on its statutory rights, duties, powers and functions,
including those contained or referred to in any Statutory Requirement; and
(b) the Auditor-General for the State of Western Australia or placing any fetter on its statutory
rights, duties, powers and functions under the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985
(WA).
33.14 Survival
Clauses 4, 17, 18, 20.1, 20.10, 22, 23, 24, 27.4, 27.5, 28, 31, 32 and 33 and Schedule 2 survive the
expiration of the Term.
33.15 Costs
Each Participant must pay its own costs and disbursements in connection with the negotiations,
preparation and execution of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt these costs are not Direct
Costs.
33.16 Unincorporated joint venture
The Non-Owner Participants have formed an unincorporated joint venture (Joint Venture) pursuant
to an agreement dated on or about the date of this Agreement (JV Agreement) to undertake their
obligations under this Agreement. The Non-Owner Participants agree that:
(a) a covenant, obligation, liability or agreement on the part of the Non-Owner Participants (or
any one of them) under this Agreement binds the Non-Owner Participants jointly to Main
Roads;
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(b) the Non-Owner Participants are jointly liable in their respective individual capacities and
notwithstanding the nature of the relationship that exists between them under the JV
Agreement or this Agreement;
(c) any duty or obligation, if any, created by the JV Agreement or the Joint Venture as joint
venturers will be subordinate to their obligations under this Agreement;
(d) any costs or expenses incurred by any Non-Owner Participant in the administration,
operation or conduct of the Joint Venture, other than procurement obligations or liabilities
entered into by the Non-Owner Participants on behalf of the Participants, must be paid for
by the Non-Owner Participants and will not be Direct Costs; and
(e) upon written request by Main Roads, the Non-Owner Participants must provide to Main
Roads a certified copy of the final JV Agreement executed by the Non-Owner Participants.
33.17 Limitation on Liability of Non-Owner Participants after Final Certificate
(a) If, following Main Roads' and the Non-Owner Participants' agreement to the contents of the
Final Certificate in accordance with clause 12.3, Main Roads makes a claim against the
Non-Owner Participants (or any number of them) and at that time one or more of the Non-
Owner Participants is insolvent, is being wound up (except for the purposes of
reconstruction or amalgamation), or has ceased to exist (Former Non-Owner Participant):
(i)
(ii)
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (a), this clause 33.17 does not affect the application of
clause 33.16, including the joint liability of the remaining Non-Owner Participants.
(c) Nothing in this clause 33.17:
(i) affects the exclusion of Part 1F of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (WA) under clause
23.4, including its exclusion in relation to any claim made by Main Roads against
the remaining Non-Owner Participants referred to in paragraph (a); or
(ii) limits Main Roads' rights to claim against the Former Non-Owner Participant for
its liability.
34. Personal Property Securities Act
34.1 Meanings of terms
In this clause 34, security interest, perfected, personal property, possession and control have the
meanings given to them in the PPSA.
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34.2 PPSA further steps
(a) Whenever Main Roads requests that the Non-Owner Participants do anything to ensure any
security interest granted under this Agreement is fully effective, enforceable and perfected
with the priority required by Main Roads, the Non-Owner Participants must promptly do it
at the Non-Owner Participants' cost.
(b) This may include:
(i) doing anything to make, procure or obtain any consent, authorisation, registration
or approval in respect of anything, or to facilitate it;
(ii) creating or executing (or procuring the creation or execution of) any document,
including any form, notice, consent or agreement; and
(iii) delivering documents or evidence of title or otherwise giving possession or control
with respect to any personal property or other asset.
34.3 Provision of information
Main Roads may request the Non-Owner Participants to provide information relating to a security
interest (in favour of any person) in this Agreement or any matter contemplated by this Agreement,
including requesting a copy of any form, notice, consent or agreement relating to such a security
interest. The Non-Owner Participants must promptly (and at their own cost) comply with such a
request.
34.4 PPSA requirements
(a) The Non-Owner Participants must promptly take all reasonable steps which are prudent for
its business under or in relation to the PPSA, including doing anything reasonably
requested by Main Roads for that purpose.
(b) Without limiting paragraph (a), each Non-Owner Participant must take reasonable steps to
identify security interests in its favour and to perfect and protect them, with the highest
priority reasonably available, except to the extent it is not reasonable or practicable to do
so, taking into account the costs and risks involved.
(c) Main Roads may request that the Non-Owner Participants provide evidence of their
compliance with this clause 34.4, and the Non-Owner Participants must promptly comply
with that request.
34.5 PPSA exclusions
(a) To the extent this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by it give rise to a security
interest under the PPSA, the Participants contract out of each provision which
sections 115(1) or 115(7) permits them to contract out, other than sections 117 and 118
(relationship with land laws), 128 and 129 (disposal of collateral) and 134(1) and 135
(retention of collateral). Any disposal or other exercise of a right, power or remedy under
this Agreement or otherwise will only be taken to be under a provision listed in this
paragraph (a) if the exercising Participant so elects.
(b) The Non-Owner Participants waive their rights to receive:
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(i) each notice which section 157(3) permits it to waive and, to the extent capable of
being waived, notice under any other provision of the PPSA; and
(ii) anything from the other party under section 275 and agrees not to make any
request of the other party under that section.
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Schedule 1 – Alliance Framework
1. Alliance Principles
The Alliance Principles are:
(a) all Participants win, or all Participants lose, based on achieved Project outcomes;
(b) Participants have a peer relationship where each Participant has an equal say;
(c) responsibilities are shared and managed collectively;
(d) risks and rewards are shared equitably among Participants;
(e) Participants provide the best available resources;
(f) Participants act consistently according to espoused values;
(g) Participants are committed to developing a culture that promotes and drives collaboration,
innovation and outstanding performance;
(h) there is a clear definition of responsibilities in a ‘no-blame’ culture;
(i) the Alliance Board, Alliance Management Team and Alliance Project Team are empowered
to make decisions and actions;
(j) all transactions are fully 'open-book';
(k) communication between all Participants is open and honest; and
(l) important decisions are made on a ‘Best for Alliance’ basis.
2. Alliance Purpose
The Alliance Purpose will be confirmed following the first Alliance Board meeting.
3. Alliance Vision
The Alliance Vision will be confirmed following the first Alliance Board meeting.
4. Project Objectives
The Project Objectives are to:
(a) improve road safety and reduce the impact of freight transport on the community through
greater segregation of freight and passenger vehicle movements along key urban arterial
roads; and
(b) enhance State productivity by improving access to Fremantle Port and Perth's key strategic
industrial areas to meet current and future growth in freight traffic,
and will include the following Delivery Objectives:
(a) deliver the Project Objectives;
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(b) accomplish value for money procurement;
(c) achieve Project milestones and completion by
(d) provide access into Fiona Stanley Hospital by
(e) realise budget certainty;
(f) adopt affordable scope for roads and bridges;
(g) achieve environmental compliance;
(h) attain positive stakeholder and community acceptance, including for road user safety and
travel time reliability during construction;
(i) enhance physical and visual amenity; and
(j) maintain network access and reliability.
5. Alliance Board
5.1 Alliance Board members
As at the Effective Date, the Alliance Board members are:
• , Owner Participant
• , Owner Participant
• , Participant 1
• , Participant 1
• , Participant 2
• , Participant 3
• , Participant 4
• , Participant 5
• , Participant 6
5.2 Alliance Board roles and responsibilities
The role of the Alliance Board is to:
(a) facilitate project alliance culture, continuous improvement and innovation, and provide the
governance required to promote improvement on business as usual;
(b) provide visible, ongoing, challenging and strategic leadership;
(c) establish and review the Project Objectives;
(d) appoint the Alliance Manager and endorse the Alliance Management Team;
(e) lead the adoption of the Alliance Purpose, Alliance Vision, Project Objectives and strategic
direction for the Project;
(f) approve the initial PMP, and all associated plans outlined in the Agreement, and
amendments as necessary through the life of the Project;
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(g) monitor Project performance including cost and KRA key performance indicator outcomes,
and take remedial action where necessary;
(h) monitor progressive performance with respect to payments and estimated Performance
Payment;
(i) consider relevant changes identified during the course of the Project, and where
appropriate, recommend changes to the Direct Cost Target to Main Roads;
(j) review and endorse new initiatives, including community initiatives, and approve specific
funding;
(k) review and determine whether internally generated charge out rates used to calculate Direct
Costs are fair and reasonable;
(l) liaise with and influence high level stakeholders to facilitate project alliance performance
and success;
(m) recommend changes to the Agreement which would improve the provision of Works; and
(n) provide the final point for resolution of issues.
5.3 Alliance Board code of conduct
The Alliance Board must, as a minimum, abide by the following principles:
(a) Best for Alliance decision making;
(b) have the power to commit resources within the limits of their fiduciary responsibilities to
their parent company;
(c) deal with issues promptly;
(d) no surprises – timely agenda;
(e) be prepared and available;
(f) open and honest communication;
(g) strategic thinking rather than operational;
(h) unanimous decisions;
(i) Alliance Board members own Alliance Board decisions; and
(j) act professionally at all times.
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Schedule 2 – Termination payment
1. Termination payments – termination of Agreement for convenience
(a) Subject to Main Roads’ rights under or in connection with this Agreement, if this
Agreement is terminated in accordance with clause 26.1, Main Roads must pay the Non-
Owner Participants, or the Non-Owner Participants must pay Main Roads (as the case may
be), an amount which is to be agreed between the Participants or, failing agreement, an
amount determined by an Adjudicator in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule 2.
(b) In agreeing the amount payable under this clause, the Participants must have regard to the
following:
(i) the Direct Costs, Corporate Overheads and Profit, Cost Performance Amount (if
any), KRA Performance Amount (if any) payable in accordance with clause 17.1
for the Works carried out prior to the date of termination. In considering any Cost
Performance Amount or KRA Performance Amount that may be payable, the
Participants must, in Good Faith, estimate the Cost Performance Amount or KRA
Performance Amount (as the case may be) which would have been payable during
the course of this Agreement, if this Agreement had not been terminated under
clause 26.1;
(ii) the cost of Materials reasonably ordered by the Non-Owner Participants for the
Works, which the Non-Owner Participants are legally liable to accept, but only if
the Materials become the property of Main Roads upon payment;
(iii) costs reasonably and actually incurred by the Non-Owner Participants in the
expectation of completing the whole of the Works including costs or damages
incurred by reason of the Non-Owner Participants having to terminate contractual
arrangements with other parties that were entered into for the purposes of the
Works, those costs and damages not having been accounted for in any payment by
Main Roads (including any payment to be made by Main Roads under a new
agreement as referred to in paragraph (b)(viii) of this Schedule 2);
(iv) reasonable costs of demobilisation;
(v) costs reasonably and actually incurred (and not recovered under this Agreement)
by the Non-Owner Participants in preparing their Proposal;
(vi) the reasonable costs of complying with any directions given by Main Roads upon,
or subsequent to, termination;
(vii) any amounts which Main Roads has previously paid to the Non-Owner
Participants; and
(viii) if any of the Non-Owner Participants agree to continue with the Works as
contemplated by clause 28.4, the extent to which Materials, orders made and other
matters the subject of the costs outlined in this paragraph (b) can be used in any
new agreement entered into between those Non-Owner Participants for the
continuation of the Works.
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(c) Payments made under this Schedule 2 are the only liability of Main Roads in relation to or
in connection with a termination under clause 26.1 and Main Roads is not otherwise liable
to the Non-Owner Participants for any cost, loss (including loss of production, loss of
revenue, loss of profit or anticipated profit, loss of business reputation, business
interruptions of any nature or wasted overheads), expense or damage incurred by the Non-
Owner Participants as a consequence of, or in connection with, this Agreement, the Works,
or the termination.
(d) Any issue between the Participants regarding the amount payable under paragraph (a) of
this Schedule 2 must be referred to the Adjudicator for determination.
(e) Notwithstanding the undertaking to avoid issues arising between the Participants and
litigation or arbitration set out in clause 4.1 of this Agreement, Main Roads and the Non-
Owner Participants are entitled to recover the amount as determined in accordance with this
clause if that amount is not paid within 20 Business Days of the date of agreement between
the Participants or the date of determination by an Adjudicator, as the case may be.
2. Independent Adjudicator
2.1 Referral of certain issues to an Adjudicator
If an issue arises between the Participants in respect of the amount payable under clause 1 of this
Schedule 2, then a Participant may by notice to the others, specify the nature of the issue and call for
submission of the issue to an Adjudicator to determine it. In the event of a submission of the issue to
the Adjudicator, the Adjudicator must determine the amount payable by Main Roads to the Non-
Owner Participants or the Non-Owner Participants to Main Roads (as the case may be) by
determining the net sum of the amounts set out in clauses 1(b)(i) – 1(b)(viii) of this Schedule 2
(Determination).
2.2 Nomination of Adjudicator
The procedure for appointing the Adjudicator is as follows:
(a) Notice must be given by the Participant calling for the appointment of the Adjudicator,
including details of the matter to be resolved by the Adjudicator, to the other Participants.
(b) If the matter is not resolved within 5 Business Days from the date of the notice, the
Participants must agree on a single Adjudicator to determine the issue.
(c) If, within 5 Business Days of the notice, the Participants fail to agree on a single
Adjudicator, then the Participants must, as soon as practicable, request the President of
CPA Australia or the most senior officer of CPA Australia to appoint the Adjudicator.
(d) Upon agreement of the Participants, or appointment of an Adjudicator under paragraph (c)
of this Schedule 2, the Participants and the Adjudicator must enter into an agreement which
will govern the determination of the issue. That agreement must be consistent with the
provisions of this Schedule 2.
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2.3 Adjudicator to have appropriate experience
(a) The Adjudicator must have appropriate commercial and practical experience and expertise
in the area of the issue.
(b) Any person nominated to act as an Adjudicator must fully disclose any interest or duty
prior to that person's appointment. If that person has or may have any interest or duty which
conflicts with their appointment as Adjudicator, then that person must not be appointed
except with the agreement of all the Participants.
(c) In resolving the issue the Adjudicator must act impartially.
2.4 Confidentiality
It will be a term of the Adjudicator’s appointment that the Adjudicator must be required to undertake
to keep confidential matters coming to the Adjudicator’s knowledge by reason of the Adjudicator’s
appointment and carrying it out.
2.5 Powers of Adjudicator
The Adjudicator will have the following powers:
(a) to determine an issue regarding the amount payable under clause 1(a) of this Schedule 2;
(b) to inform itself independently as to facts to which the issue relates;
(c) to obtain evidence from any person in relation to any aspect of the issue;
(d) to receive written submissions and sworn and unsworn written statements and to photocopy
documents and to act upon the same;
(e) to consult with such other professionally qualified persons as the Adjudicator in its absolute
discretion thinks fit; and
(f) to take such measures as the Adjudicator thinks fit to expedite the completion of the issue
resolution,
but the Adjudicator will only have the power to determine an issue regarding the amount payable
under clause 1(a) of this Schedule 2 and no other issue (unless the Participants otherwise agree).
2.6 Timing of issue resolution
It will be a term of the Adjudicator's appointment that the Adjudicator must be required to make a
determination of the issue within 20 Business Days of the Adjudicator’s appointment or such further
period as the Participants may agree. If any Participant considers that the issue is of an urgent nature
and needs to be resolved within a shorter period, then that Participant may require the period of 20
Business Days to be reduced to such period as that Participant may reasonably require, being not
less than 5 Business Days.
2.7 Written determination
The Adjudicator must deliver a written determination which sets out the reasons for the
determination and the findings of fact on which the determination is based.
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2.8 Issue resolution to be held in Perth, Western Australia
The issue resolution must be held in Perth, Western Australia unless the Participants otherwise
agree.
2.9 Adjudicator's Determination is final
The Adjudicator must act as an expert and not an arbitrator. The determination is final and binding
on the Participants except in the case of manifest error or if the Adjudicator has acted in bad faith.
2.10 Costs of Adjudicator
The costs of the Adjudicator must be borne equally by the Participants and are not Direct Costs.
2.11 Referral to Adjudicator does not affect the obligations of the Participants
The referral of any matter to an Adjudicator does not in any manner relieve any Participant from
performing its obligations under this Agreement pending the determination of the issue.
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Schedule 3 – Direct Costs
For the Works, all costs which are actually and reasonably incurred by the Participants in connection with the
Works will be direct costs (Direct Costs) apart from:
(a) any corporate overhead component not specific to the Works (except for the allowable
overheads specified in Item 1.2(b)(vi) to (xix) of this Schedule 3) (Allowable Overheads);
and
(b) profit or mark up of any kind.
It is a fundamental underlying principle of this Agreement that:
(a) except for the Corporate Overhead and Profit and Allowable Overheads, no Participant will
derive any mark up, overhead, profit or unreasonable advantage from the utilisation of their
resources for the Works; and
(b) direct costs which are recovered under Item 1 of this Schedule 3 cannot be also recovered
under Items 2 to 16 of this Schedule 3.
Direct Costs include the following costs which are actually and reasonably incurred:
1 Labour, staff and supervision
The Participants are entitled to recover the actual cost for labour, staff and supervision employed by
the Participants and assigned to the Alliance Management Team and Alliance Project Team for the
purposes of performing the Works in accordance with this item, including as set out under the
following categories:
(a) Employees of Constructor Participants (comprising Participant 1, Participant 2 and
Participant 3);
(b) Employees of Designer Participants (comprising Participant 4, Participant 5 and Participant
6);
(c) Direct Labour – Project employed personnel; and
(d) Other Costs.
1.1 Employees of Constructor Participant(s)
The Participants are entitled to recover the following actual labour costs for employees of the
Constructor Participant(s) for their time spent on the Project:
(a) the base salary - salaries actually paid to an employee, including site allowances, shift
allowances, vehicle allowances which form part of an employee’s salary package and
allowance for sick leave and public holidays; and
(b) an on-cost multiplier – an on-cost multiplier of which will be added to the base salary
and which is deemed to include the following costs:
(i) superannuation contributions;
(ii) payroll costs and tax;
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(iii) leave burdens, annual leave loading and long service leave entitlements to the
extent they are accrued during the period they are employed on the Works;
(iv) termination/redundancy payments to staff to the extent that they accrue during the
period they are employed on the Works;
(v) bonus payments, reasonable benefits and allowances made by or provisioned by
the Participants to staff; and
(vi) training related to corporate requirements.
1.2 Employees of Designer Participants
The Participants are entitled to recover the following actual labour costs for professional/technical
employees of the Designer Participants for their time spent working on the Project, either in the
Project office or in the Designer Participant’s usual place of business:
(a) normal time base salary: salaries actually paid including superannuation contributions
payable to an employee for normal time worked, where superannuation is fixed at statutory
levels, which form part of an employee's salary package;
(b) normal time on-cost multiplier: an on-cost multiplier of which will be added to the
normal time base salary for normal time hours worked and which is deemed to include the
following:
Statutory On-costs
(i) payroll costs and tax;
(ii) FBT, Living Away from Home Allowance (LAFHA) and Cost of Living
Allowance (COLA), per diems (where applicable);
(iii) leave burdens, including sick leave, annual leave loading and long service leave
entitlements;
(iv) public holidays;
(v) Workers Compensation insurance;
Overhead Costs
(vi) administration labour: including salary and other salary related costs for support
staff including marketing, finance, HR, QA, HSE, administration, legal and IT;
(vii) fixed occupancy: including rent and outgoings, electricity, water, repairs and
maintenance, security and cleaning;
(viii) communication: including office and mobile telephones, (excludes VPN
connectivity to/from Project office; this is a reimbursable Project cost);
(ix) stationary, supplies and equipment: including stationary, postage, archiving,
reasonable general printing, brochures, subscriptions, freight and postage, etc.;
(x) computer services: including software licences and maintenance, internal and
external IT support;
(xi) insurance premiums;
(xii) depreciation of fixed assets;
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(xiii) staff and client amenities, employee professional memberships, professional
development training and recognition programs, in-house work refreshments, etc.;
(xiv) non-Project related travel costs including domestic and international airfares, car
hire, accommodation, travel allowances and related costs;
(xv) business services expenses: including costs for activities such as innovation,
management information system, safety, business school, etc.;
(xvi) expenditure relating to the training of staff that is non-Project related (e.g. venue
hire, workshops, external trainers, training materials);
(xvii) bonus payments, reasonable benefits and allowances made by or provisioned by
the Participants to staff;
(xviii) other overheads including general expenses, legal expenses relating to business
operations, equipment hire and other sundry expenses; and
(xix) professional/technical employee non-chargeable time: including time spent by
otherwise chargeable staff whose salary is not captured in the administration
labour costs on non-chargeable (overhead) activities. Examples include
management time (mentoring, planning, staff management, resourcing), marketing
and business development activities, proposal development, training and
professional development activities, quality reviews, team briefings, unpaid
variations and other activities that are not directly associated with the Project;
(c) overtime base salary: salaries actually paid including superannuation contributions
payable to an employee for overtime, where superannuation is fixed at statutory levels,
which form part of an employee's salary package;
(d) overtime on-cost multiplier: an on-cost multiplier of which will be added to the
overtime base salary for the overtime hours worked; and
(e) base salary adjustment: normal time and overtime base salaries will be adjusted:
(i) for Participant 4, to include a salary continuance charge of of the base salary;
and
(ii) for Participant 6, to include annual leave and public holidays within the base rate
(and which are therefore not included in the on-cost multiplier).
Notwithstanding the above principles, Main Roads agrees that the Participants are entitled to recover
their Direct Costs under this clause 1.2 in accordance with the provisions contained in clause 10 of
Schedule 11.
1.3 Direct Labour - Project Employed Personnel
Direct labour may be engaged for carrying out the Works provided an Enterprise Agreement is
entered into to govern the rules under which the direct labour will be employed. All direct labour
shall provide weekly timesheets which will determine the amount paid.
Direct labour employed by the Participants for the Project will be paid as required under an
Enterprise Agreement and the necessary provisions will be made, as described in the Enterprise
Agreement, to cover the on-costs associated with employing the labour. The on-costs associated
with employing the labour will include the following:
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(a) superannuation contributions payable;
(b) payroll costs and tax;
(c) annual leave burdens, sick leave, public holidays and long service leave entitlements to the
extent they are accrued during the period they are employed on the Works;
(d) termination/redundancy payments to the extent they are accrued during the period they are
employed on the Works; and
(e) income protection insurance.
1.4 Other Costs
Costs which are not recovered through the on-cost multiplier, but are recovered directly for the
amount actually and reasonably incurred, include the following:
(a) project specific team functions and recognition;
(b) incentive payments made to staff/labour employed on the Works which are directly related
to the performance of the Works and that are as approved in writing by the Alliance Board
prior to making the payment;
(c) project specific training costs;
(d) project specific travel costs, including Project specific travel, accommodation and
subsistence allowances;
(e) project specific clothing and safety equipment with alliance branding;
(f) provisions of registered industrial agreements relevant to this Project, provided that Main
Roads is consulted prior to any new entitlements being accorded to employees and agrees
to the new entitlements;
(g) costs directly associated with a Participant’s implementation and compliance with State and
Federal Government policies and guidelines including the State of Western Australia's
'Government Building Training Policy' administered by the Department of Training and
Workforce Development as required by this Project;
(h) costs directly associated with a Participant’s management of the insurances referred to in
this Agreement required to be maintained by the Owner Participant or the Non-Owner
Participants, including any related claims management, injury management and return to
work programs; and
(i) Proposal preparation costs, as stated in Cost Centre No.1 in item 3 of Schedule 7.
2. Taxes, fees and charges
All fees, charges, duties, royalties, licences, Fringe Benefit Tax and statutory charges of any kind or
nature, imposed or levied with respect to the performance of the Works (including any Building and
Construction Industry Training Levy payable in respect of the Works).
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3. Legal expenses
Subject to the exclusion in clause 18 of this Schedule 3, all reasonable costs paid in defending or
prosecuting lawsuits or claims (including payment of judgments, awards, orders, damages,
restitution, compensation or interest) arising out of or in connection with the Works (but excluding
costs, payment of judgments, awards, orders, damages, restitution, compensation or interest incurred
or suffered in relation to issues between the Participants as contemplated in clause 4.3 of this
Agreement), or any reasonable legal costs otherwise necessary or expedient for the Works other than
legal services used in the preparation, negotiation or execution of this Agreement.
4. Subcontractors and consultancies
(a) Cost of Subcontract works and services and the provision of equipment in connection with
Works from sources other than the Participants.
(b) Consultancy services of consultants engaged by the Alliance Board or the Alliance
Management Team in connection with the Works.
5. Materials
(a) Cost of Materials purchased by any of the Participants for the Works, including Materials
purchased for research and development directly related to the Works.
(b) Cost of the disposal of Materials not required for the purposes of undertaking the Works.
6. Participant facilities
Cost of the use of on-Site and off-Site Construction Plant and Temporary Works provided for the
Works. These costs will be allocated on a basis determined by the Alliance Board if the
Construction Plant and Temporary Works in question are also used for purposes other than the
Works.
7. Site establishment costs
Costs associated with the establishment of the Site, including:
(a) mobilisation and demobilisation;
(b) connection and disconnection of temporary services;
(c) the costs associated with negotiating, investigating, surveying and designing land
acquisitions and arranging Site access, possession and laydown areas;
(d) the costs associated with establishing the Site offices;
(e) the costs associated with acquiring land outside the Site;
(f) accommodation works on, and modifications to accesses to, properties impacted by the
Works;
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(g) applying for Development Applications and complying with the conditions of those
Development Applications;
(h) Site fencing, remedial fencing, access gates and hoardings;
(i) protection of existing facilities;
(j) Project signboard; and
(k) inductions (to the extent not covered under clause 1 of this Schedule 3).
8. Site running costs
Costs associated with running the Site, including:
(a) the Site offices;
(b) storage facilities (whether on-Site or off-Site). These costs will be allocated on a basis
determined by the Alliance Board if the storage facilities are also used for purposes other
than for the Works;
(c) laydown areas;
(d) ablutions;
(e) compliance with quality assurance, occupational health and safety and environmental
requirements;
(f) compliance with public relations and Aboriginal Heritage issues;
(g) traffic management;
(h) power and water consumption;
(i) rubbish removal;
(j) Site security; and
(k) consumables (for example, petty cash, first aid, tea and coffee).
9. Participants' Construction Plant
(a) The cost of Construction Plant which is required across the whole spectrum of the Works,
including:
(i) cranage;
(ii) scaffolding and access;
(iii) Site vehicles;
(iv) earthmoving plant;
(v) road and structure construction plant;
(vi) concrete placing plant;
(vii) general small tools;
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(viii) the supply, installation and miscellaneous (eg. freight) costs of mechanical
equipment; and
(ix) any additional equipment for testing.
(b) The hire rate to the Project for all Participant owned Construction Plant will be the lesser
of:
(i) the published internal rate currently being utilised by the Participant; or
(ii) the best external hire rate for a similar piece of equipment for a similar period of
hire.
(c) Participants must provide evidence of the published internal hire rate referred to in
paragraph (b)(i).
10. Photocopying and printing
All costs associated with producing, copying and binding:
(a) all drawings;
(b) maintenance and operation manuals;
(c) test reports; and
(d) other documents produced as part of the Works.
11. Insurance
(a) The Non-Owner Participants' cost of providing the insurances referred to in this Agreement
and any difference in cover insurance approved by the Alliance Board.
(b) Any deductible or excess payable in relation to the insurances referred to in this Agreement
or unrecovered amounts and the cost of preparing any claims.
(c) If any of the insurances referred to in this Agreement are not specific to this Agreement, the
Alliance Board must determine the extent that the cost of that insurance should be
apportioned for the purpose of being a Direct Cost.
12. Security
Subject to clause 29 of this Agreement, all costs of establishing and maintaining the security referred
to in clause 29 of this Agreement.
13. Project Office
Leasing, support and equipment (including communications and signage) costs of the Project offices
referred to in clause 6.6 of this Agreement.
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14. Specialist groups
The costs charged by any specialist group within any of the Participants when their services are used
by the Alliance Management Team for the purposes of the Works.
15. Rectification costs
All costs incurred in making good any Defects to the extent such costs are not recovered under any
Project insurance policy.
16. IT Costs
The cost of:
(a) cabling;
(b) switching infrastructure;
(c) telephone system;
(d) implementation and installation;
(e) servers;
(f) network costs;
(g) data link costs;
(h) PCs (including design software and other software purchased specifically for the Works but
excluding design software and software used by the Participants in their day to day
operations);
(i) amortisations and licences;
(j) printers, plotters, MFM, scanners;
(k) cameras and videos to the extent they are purchased or used solely for the Works;
(l) MIS services and support charges; and
(m) IT support,
located at the Project offices referred to in clause 6.6 in this Agreement.
17. Other
Any other cost that, in the view of the Alliance Board, should be a Direct Cost including any costs
incurred by the Non-Owner Participants in running an overdraft in the Project Bank Account.
18. Exclusions
For the avoidance of doubt, the following costs incurred by the Participants will not be Direct Costs
(and to the extent that they have been incorrectly recognised as Direct Costs, will be credited against
Direct Costs):
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(a) any legal costs incurred by a Participant in defending any prosecution or claim brought
against a Participant by a Governmental Agency by reason of an alleged breach of any
Statutory Requirement;
(b) proceeds recovered under any insurance policy required to be effected and maintained by a
Participant or any other insurance policy in place, or put in place, by a Participant covering
the Works or the obligations of that Participant;
(c) costs incurred by a Participant where those costs are subsequently recouped by that
Participant including where those costs are recouped under security provided by the Non-
Owner Participants, an insurance policy required to be effected and maintained by a
Participant or any other insurance policy in place, or put in place, by a Participant covering
the Works or the obligations of that Participant or from a Third Party;
(d) any costs associated with Participants’ representatives attending an Alliance Board
meeting;
(e) any costs, liabilities or payments incurred or made by a Participant in indemnifying another
Participant in accordance with this Agreement;
(f) any costs, liabilities or payments incurred or made by a Participant in defending or
prosecuting lawsuits of claims (including payment of judgments, awards, orders, damages,
restitution, compensation or interest) by or against another Participant in accordance with
clause 4.3 of this Agreement;
(g) any and all costs, losses, damages and expenses suffered or incurred by the Defaulting
Participant arising out of or in connection with a default (as that term is defined in
clause 27.1) and/or exclusion and/or termination under clauses 27 and 28;
(h) any corporate or personal income tax or capital gains tax imposed on a Participant;
(i) GST;
(j) any penalties or fines in respect of the matters referred to in this Schedule 3;
(k) any costs incurred by a Participant, or to be incurred by a Participant, specifically excluded
under this Agreement as being a Direct Cost; and
(l) costs incurred by Main Roads in effecting its Principal Controlled Insurance Program.
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Schedule 6 – Participants’ contact details
1. Main Roads (client)
Address: Main Roads
Don Aitken Centre
Waterloo Crescent
East Perth WA 6004
Email:
Attention:
2. Owner Participant
Address: Main Roads
Don Aitken Centre
Waterloo Crescent
East Perth WA 6004
Email:
Attention:
3. Participant 1
Address: 202 Pier Street
Perth WA 6000
Attention:
4. Participant 2
Address: 68 Hasler Road
Osborne Park WA 6017
Email:
Attention:
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5. Participant 3
Address: 401 Spearwood Avenue
Bibra Lake WA 6163
Email:
Attention:
6. Participant 4
Address: 239 Adelaide Terrace
Perth WA 6004
Email:
Attention:
7. Participant 5
Address: Level 6, 3 Forrest Place
Perth WA 6000
Email:
Attention:
8. Participant 6
Address: 484 Murray Street
Perth WA 6000
Email:
Attention:
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Schedule 7 – Proposal Elements
1. Preliminary Project Management Plan
2. Preliminary Design Drawings
3. Direct Cost Target Schedule of Cost Centres
4. Breakdown of allowance for utility provider quotes
5. Details for Schedule 9 adjustments:
- Item 17.
- Item 18. Karel Avenue bridge widening.
6. Preliminary Design Report
7. Agreed Urban Design Elements
The parties acknowledge that the documents comprising Schedule 7 are contained on the disc included in this
Schedule 7 and which forms part of this Agreement.
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Schedule 8 – Main Roads’ Representative
1. Role
Main Roads’ Representative must perform all of Main Roads’ obligations in Main Roads’ capacity
as client under this Agreement, except for alterations to the Direct Cost Target, which is the
responsibility of the Senior Project Director. In performing Main Roads' obligations under this
Agreement (except to the extent such obligations comprise the exercise of a Main Roads' Reserved
Power or the context requires otherwise), Main Roads' Representative and Senior Project Director
must act honestly, reasonably and with integrity.
2. Responsibilities
2.1 General
Main Roads’ Representative’s responsibilities can be divided into 4 categories:
(a) scope of Works;
(b) financial accountability;
(c) liaison and facilitation; and
(d) ownership.
The responsibilities of Main Roads in respect of the 4 categories identified above include the matters
set out in clauses 2.2 to 2.5 of this Schedule 8.
2.2 Scope of Works
Main Roads’ Representative:
(a) must facilitate the Participants’ access to documentation, which describes Main Roads’
requirements for the design, documentation and construction of the Works; and
(b) may direct the Participants in writing to change the Works in accordance with clause 14.1.
2.3 Financial Accountability
Main Roads’ Representative must:
(a) assist the Participants in the development of design to achieve and adopt the design that
represents best value for money;
(b) specify the required format and intervals for reporting to Main Roads on financial and other
matters;
(c) ensure all payments to the Non-Owner Participants for the Direct Costs that the Non-Owner
Participants reasonably, properly and actually incurred are made into the Project Bank
Account;
(d) ensure verification and payment of any Cost Performance Amount;
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(e) ensure verification and payment of any KRA Performance Amount after the Date of
Practical Completion of the final Separable Portion;
(f) receive the security for performance required to be provided by the Non-Owner Participants
under this Agreement;
(g) in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, make a demand on the security provided
by the Non-Owner Participants;
(h) return the security provided by the Non-Owner Participants to the Non-Owner Participants
within 20 Business Days of the date of the contents of the Final Certificate being agreed;
and
(i) ensure payment on the Final Certificate to the extent Main Roads is required to make
payment to the Non-Owner Participants under the Final Certificate.
2.4 Liaison and facilitation
Main Roads’ Representative must:
(a) communicate directly with the chairperson of the Alliance Board, the Alliance Manager
and, with the acknowledgement of the Alliance Manager, the Alliance Management Team
on operational issues;
(b) attend Alliance Board meetings as required, and other meetings by agreement with the
Alliance Manager;
(c) ensure that Main Roads provides relevant information in a timely manner;
(d) communicate to Main Roads issues arising from the Participants;
(e) ensure that resources and expertise are available within Main Roads for the benefit of the
alliance; and
(f) ensure relevant support staff within Main Roads understand the nature of the alliance, and
the obligations placed on the Participants.
2.5 Ownership
Main Roads’ Representative must:
(a) give the Participants possession of the Site or sufficient of the Site to enable the
Participants to carry out the Works;
(b) if necessary, suspend the progress of the whole or part of the Works in accordance with
clause 25.2;
(c) issue a Certificate of Practical Completion for each Separable Portion to the Participants in
accordance with this Agreement and be satisfied that defects or omissions are rectified
before the end of the Defects Correction Period;
(d) receive all documents and information in respect of the design and construction of the
Works including all design documentation, surveys and as constructed information together
with any other documentation, which ought to be held by Main Roads with respect to the
Works; and
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(e) issue a Final Certificate to the Participants in accordance with this Agreement once
satisfaction is gained that defects or omissions have been rectified.
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Schedule 9 – Scope Changes
The following examples are to assist Main Roads in determining whether a direction by Main Roads in
accordance with clause 14.1 is a Scope Change:
Item
No.
Event Specific Context Scope Change?
(Yes or No)
1. Change to Basis For Design
And Construction or
fundamental requirements of
the Works
Minor scope change, minor change in
design standards or minor change in
fundamental project requirements
requiring a direction by Main Roads.
No
2. Change in Act of Parliament Requiring a significant change to the
Basis For Design And Construction or
fundamental requirements of the
Works.
Yes
3. Change in community /
stakeholder expectations
Requiring a significant change to the
Basis For Design And Construction or
fundamental requirements of the
Works.
Yes
4. Community opposition Protests or other action by the
community impacts on the Works.
No
5. Main Roads makes changes to
traffic volume forecasts or
traffic modelling
Requiring a significant change to the
Basis For Design And Construction or
fundamental requirements of the
Works.
Yes
6. Drainage Adjustments to existing drainage
network to accommodate the Works.
No
7. Utility Service relocations /
modifications
Actual costs claimed by utility
providers, for the items listed in
Schedule 7 Item 4, differ from that
allowed in the Direct Cost Target.
Yes
8. Discovery of Class V
contaminated materials which
cannot be treated to become a
lesser Class
Dealing with material requires a
significant change to the Basis For
Design And Construction or
fundamental requirements of the
Works.
Yes
9. Geotechnical information Ground conditions vary from that
assumed in developing the Direct
Cost Target.
No
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Item
No.
Event Specific Context Scope Change?
(Yes or No)
10. Major traffic disruption or
inability to implement proposed
Traffic Management Plan
Traffic Management Plan requires
amendment which impacts on the
Works.
No
11. Accommodation works relating
to the Roe 8 Project
Change in accommodation works. No
12. Final environmental
management plans prepared by
Main Roads for the Roe 8
Project significantly different
from draft management plans
Requiring a significant change to the
Basis For Design And Construction or
fundamental requirements of the
Works.
Yes
13. The environmental approvals
for areas where the concept
design for the Roe 8 Project is
outside of the approved
development envelope include
conditions which are over and
above what would reasonably
be expected
Requiring a significant change to the
Basis For Design And Construction or
fundamental requirements of the
Works.
Yes
14. Design development /
optimisation
The final design is different to that on
which the Direct Cost Target was
based.
No
15. Aggregation of minor scope
changes
Several minor scope changes
aggregate to create a significant
change.
No
16. Urban Design Changes to the list of urban design
elements in Schedule 7.
Yes
17.
18. Karel Avenue bridge widening If Main Roads agrees to the widening
of the Karel Avenue bridge to four
lanes, the Direct Cost Target will be
increased by (refer
Schedule 7).
Yes
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Schedule 10 – Basis For Design And Construction
The parties acknowledge that the document comprising Schedule 10 is contained on the disc included in
Schedule 7 and which forms part of this Agreement.
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Schedule 11 – Payment Procedures
1. Introduction
(a) For the avoidance of doubt, Main Roads and the Non-Owner Participants agree that:
(i) Main Roads will reimburse the Non-Owner Participants for Direct Costs (as
defined in Schedule 3) incurred by them;
(ii) Main Roads will pay the Non-Owner Participants the Corporate Overhead and
Profit;
(iii) if applicable, Main Roads will pay the Non-Owner Participants a Cost
Performance Amount, or the Non-Owner Participants will pay Main Roads a Cost
Performance Amount; and
(iv) if applicable, Main Roads will pay the Non-Owner Participants a KRA
Performance Amount, or the Non-Owner Participants will pay Main Roads a KRA
Performance Amount.
(b) This Schedule 11 sets out the procedure which will govern the payments referred to above.
2. Cash neutrality
A key principle governing the payment procedures to apply to the Works is ensuring that the Non-
Owner Participants, in their joint capacity and to the greatest extent possible, are put in a cash
neutral position in relation to the reimbursement of Direct Costs.
3. Cash flow forecasting
(a) The Alliance Management Team must prepare and deliver to Main Roads a cash flow
forecast in respect of the first month of the Term within 5 Business Days (or as otherwise
agreed by the Participants) from the Effective Date. The cash flow forecast must be in a
format approved by the Alliance Board and must detail for the first month of the Term:
(i) the Directs Costs that are expected to be incurred by the Non-Owner Participants
in the first month of the Term; and
(ii) the Corporate Overhead and Profit that is expected to be due to the Non-Owner
Participants in the first month of the Term.
The cash flow forecast must identify the amount, if any, to be paid in advance by Main
Roads into the Project Bank Account and the date for payment of that amount.
(b) By no later than 10 Business Days (or as otherwise agreed by the Participants) prior to the
end of the first month of the Term and thereafter each subsequent month during the Term,
the Alliance Management Team must prepare and deliver to Main Roads a cash flow
forecast. The cash flow forecast must be in a format approved by the Alliance Board and
must detail for the following month of the Term:
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(i) the Directs Costs that are expected to be incurred by the Non-Owner Participants
in the following month of the Term; and
(ii) the Corporate Overhead and Profit that is expected to be due to the Non-Owner
Participants in the following month of the Term.
The cash flow forecast must identify the amount, if any, to be paid in advance by Main
Roads into the Project Bank Account and the date for payment of that amount.
(c) For the purpose of this Schedule 11, the amounts identified under clauses 3(a) and (b) of
this Schedule 11 are advance payment amounts (Advance Payment Amounts).
4. Advance Payment Amount by Main Roads
Main Roads must pay each Advance Payment Amount on the date for payment of that amount
identified in the applicable cash flow forecast.
5. Reconciliation
(a) As soon as practicable after the end of each month during the Term, the Alliance
Management Team must prepare and deliver a notice in a format approved by the Alliance
Board to the Non-Owner Participants and Main Roads:
(i) detailing for that month of the Term:
(A) Actual Directs Costs incurred by the Non-Owner Participants; and
(B) the entitlement of the Non-Owner Participants to Corporate Overhead and
Profit calculated in accordance with this Agreement,
(Entitlement Amount);
(ii) identifying the amount of the difference (if any) between the Advance Payment
Amount and the Entitlement Amount for that month of the Term (Difference
Amount); and
(iii) attaching a statutory declaration provided by the Non-Owner Participants in the
form set out in Schedule 12 in respect of:
(A) payment by the Non-Owner Participants of any amounts that are due and
payable to Subcontractors; and
(B) compliance by the Non-Owner Participants with clause 16.4 of this
Agreement in respect of the Code.
(b) All supporting documentation relating to the amounts contained in any notice prepared
under clause 5(a) in this Schedule 11 must be available for inspection and audit.
(c) If the Entitlement Amount is greater than the Advance Payment Amount, then Main Roads
must make payment of the Difference Amount into the Project Bank Account within
5 Business Days of receipt of the notice under clause 5(a) in this Schedule 11.
(d) If the Entitlement Amount is less than the Advance Payment Amount, then the Non-Owner
Participants must reimburse Main Roads the Difference Amount from the Project Bank
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Account within 5 Business Days of receipt of the notice under clause 5(a) in this
Schedule 11.
(e) If Main Roads is not satisfied for any reason with any of the amounts set out in a notice
given by the Non-Owner Participants under clause 5(a) in this Schedule 11, Main Roads
must:
(i) if the Difference Amount is payable by Main Roads under clause 5(c) of this
Schedule 11, pay the Difference Amount; and
(ii) within 5 Business Days of receipt of the notice under clause 5(a) in this
Schedule 11, give notice to the Alliance Management Team that Main Roads is not
satisfied with the amounts set out in the notice under clause 5(a) in this
Schedule 11 and full details of why it is not satisfied.
The Alliance Management Team must then promptly satisfy Main Roads’ concerns and the
provisions of clause 17.6 of this Agreement will apply to any overpayment by Main Roads
of the Difference Amount.
(f) This clause 5 of this Schedule 11 does not limit Main Roads’ right to withhold or deduct
payments in accordance with this Agreement.
6. Payment of Cost Performance Amount
(a) As soon as practicable after the Date of Practical Completion of the last Separable Portion,
Main Roads must pay the Non-Owner Participants or the Non-Owner Participants must pay
Main Roads (as the case may be) an interim payment of an appropriate proportion of the
anticipated final Cost Performance Amount as approved by the Alliance Board.
(b) As soon as practicable after the Completion Date, the Alliance Management Team must
prepare and deliver a notice in a format approved by the Alliance Board to the Non-Owner
Participants and Main Roads detailing for the period from the Effective Date until the
Completion Date the Cost Performance Amount (if any) payable by Main Roads to the
Non-Owner Participants or the Non-Owner Participants to Main Roads (as the case may
be), in accordance with clause 2.2(a) of Schedule 4. The amount payable must take into
account any interim payment made under clause 6(a) of this Schedule 11.
(c) All supporting documentation relating to the amount set out in any notice prepared under
clause 6(b) of this Schedule 11 must be available for inspection and audit.
(d) Within 20 Business Days of receipt of the notice under clause 6(b) of this Schedule 11,
Main Roads must pay the Non-Owner Participants, or the Non-Owner Participants must
pay Main Roads (as the case may be), the amount set out in the notice issued under
clause 6(b) of this Schedule 11.
(e) If a Participant is not satisfied for any reason with the amount set out in a notice under
clause 6(b) of this Schedule 11, that Participant must nonetheless pay the amount, and the
Participant must, within 10 Business Days of a payment being made, give notice to the
Alliance Management Team that the Participant is not satisfied with the amount set out in
the notice under clause 6(b) of this Schedule 11 and full details of why it is not satisfied.
The Alliance Management Team must then promptly satisfy that Participant’s concerns and
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the provisions of clause 17.6 of this Agreement will apply to any overpayment of the
amount set out in the notice under clause 6(b) of this Schedule 11.
7. Payment of KRA Performance Amount
(a) As soon as practicable after the Date of Practical Completion of the last Separable Portion,
the Alliance Management Team must prepare and deliver a notice in a format approved by
the Alliance Board to the Non-Owner Participants and Main Roads detailing for the period
from the Effective Date until the Date of Practical Completion the KRA Performance
Amount (if any) payable by Main Roads to the Non-Owner Participants or the Non-Owner
Participants to Main Roads (as the case may be).
(b) All supporting documentation relating to the amount set out in any notice prepared under
clause 7(a) of this Schedule 11 must be available for inspection and audit.
(c) Subject to clause 7(d) of this Schedule 11, within 20 Business Days of receipt of the notice
under clause 7(a) of this Schedule 11, Main Roads must pay the Non-Owner Participants,
or the Non-Owner Participants must pay Main Roads (as the case may be), the amount set
out in the notice issued under clause 7(a) of this Schedule 11.
(d) If a Participant is not satisfied for any reason with the amount set out in a notice under
clause 7(a) of this Schedule 11, that Participant must nonetheless pay the amount, and the
Participant must, within 10 Business Days of a payment being made, give notice to the
Alliance Management Team that the Participant is not satisfied with the amount set out in
the notice under clause 7(a) of this Schedule 11 and full details of why it is not satisfied.
The Alliance Management Team must then promptly satisfy the Participant’s concerns and
the provisions of clause 17.6 of this Agreement will apply to any overpayment of the
amount set out in the notice under clause 7(a) of this Schedule 11.
8. Direct Costs incurred by Main Roads
For the purposes of the Performance Payment methodology set out in Schedule 4, the Alliance
Management Team will monitor the Actual Direct Costs incurred by the Owner Participant in
relation to the Works during the Term.
9. Procedures
Within 20 Business Days of the Effective Date, the Alliance Management Team must develop such
further procedures as are necessary to define in detail the processes for payment. Those procedures
must be based on the principles set out in this Schedule 11 and are subject to the approval (or
otherwise) of the Alliance Board.
10. Employees of Designer Participants
(a) The Designer Participants will compile a combined charge-out rate schedule (Charge-Out
Rate Schedule) which covers the salary bands of the professional/technical employees of
the Designer Participants that will work on the Project. The Charge-Out Rate Schedule will
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form part of the procedure developed in accordance with clause 9 above. The bands within
the Charge-Out Rate Schedule must cover the normal time and overtime base salary and
normal time and over time on-cost multiplier components specified in clauses 1.2(a) to
1.2(e) of Schedule 3. Main Roads acknowledges that in generating the bands, the on-cost
multiplier may vary within each band but that, on average, the on-cost multiplier will
equate to the on-cost multiplier specified in clauses 1.2(b) and 1.2(d) of Schedule 3.
(b) During the course of the Project, the Participants will assign the professional/technical
employees of the Designer Participants to the appropriate band.
(c) The assignment of employees within the bands of the Charge-Out Rate Schedule is subject
to change in line with the annual salary review process of the Designer Participants.
(d) Payment of Direct Costs by Main Roads in accordance with the Charge-Out Rate Schedule
does not limit the rights of Main Roads to reconcile or audit any payment of the Designer
Participants for Direct Costs, so as to ensure recovery is in accordance with the principles
in clause 1.2 of Schedule 3.
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Schedule 12 – Form of Statutory Declaration
Contract No. 98/14
Statutory Declaration
I ............................................................................................................................. ........
(FULL NAME)
of ........................................................................................................... ........................
(ADDRESS)
............................................................................................ Postcode ..........................
in the State of Western Australia
(insert your occupation(s))................................................................................................................
sincerely declare that:
1. all workers, suppliers, subcontractors and consultants engaged by any or all
of....................................................................... (Non-Owner Participants) have been paid all
moneys due and payable to them in respect of work under Contract No. 98/14; and
2. the Non-Owner Participants have complied with and continue to comply with their obligations under
clause 16.4 of Contract No. 98/14.
I confirm that I have made enquiries of all appropriate persons and taken such other steps so as to obtain the
knowledge and information required to make this statutory declaration and am duly authorised to make this
statutory declaration on behalf of the Non-Owner Participants.
This declaration is true and I know that it is an offence to make a declaration knowing that it is false in a
material particular.
This declaration is made under the Oaths, Affidavits and Statutory Declarations Act 2005 (WA) at:
(insert place) ………………………. on
(insert date) ………………………... by
.......................................................................................................................................
(SIGNATURE OF DECLARANT)
in the presence of
.......................................................................................................................................
(SIGNATURE OF WITNESS)
.......................................................................................................................................
(NAME AND QUALIFICATION OF WITNESS)
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Schedule 13 – Parent Company Guarantee
Deed of Guarantee and Indemnity
This Deed of Guarantee and Indemnity (Deed) is made on [insert date] by the following party:
[Insert name of Non-Owner Participant Guarantor] ABN [insert ABN of Non-Owner Participant Guarantor]
of [insert address of Non-Owner Participant Guarantor] (Guarantor)
Recitals
A. On or about the date of this Deed, the Commissioner of Main Roads, of Waterloo Crescent,
East Perth, Western Australia (Principal) entered into a Project Alliance Agreement
(Agreement) with [insert details] (Non-Owner Participant) and [insert details of other Non-Owner
Participant(s)].
B. It is a requirement under clause 29.6 of the Agreement that the Guarantor enter into, execute and
deliver this Deed.
This Deed witnesses
that in consideration of the Principal accepting this Deed in satisfaction of the Non-Owner Participant’s
obligations under clause 29.6 of the Agreement, the Guarantor agrees:
1. Definitions and interpretation
1.1 Definitions
In this Deed, unless the context otherwise requires, a word or phrase defined in the Agreement has
the same meaning as in the Agreement.
1.2 Interpretation
In this Deed (including the Recitals), unless a contrary intention appears:
(a) headings and under linings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of
this Deed;
(b) words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;
(c) words importing a gender include any gender;
(d) an expression importing a natural person includes any company, partnership, joint venture,
association or other body corporate;
(e) a reference to a statute, regulation, proclamation, ordinance or by-law includes all statutes,
regulations, proclamations, ordinances or by-laws amending, consolidating or replacing it
and a reference to a statute includes all regulations, proclamations, ordinances and by-laws
issued under that statute;
(f) all prices and sums of money and all payments made under this Deed are in Australian
currency;
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(g) a reference to the word 'including' means 'including without limitation' and references to
'includes' means 'includes without limitation'; and
(h) a reference to a document (including this Deed) is that document as varied, amended,
novated, ratified or replaced from time to time.
2. Guarantee
The Guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Principal the due and punctual
performance of the obligations of the Non-Owner Participant under the Agreement including:
(a) the discharge of the obligations and liabilities of the Non-Owner Participant under the
Agreement; and
(b) the payment of all debts and monetary liabilities of the Non-Owner Participant to the
Principal under the Agreement.
3. Guarantor to perform
If, in the Principal’s opinion, the Non-Owner Participant fails to perform any of the Non-Owner
Participant’s obligations or discharge any of Non-Owner Participant’s liabilities under the
Agreement, the Guarantor must forthwith:
(a) upon receipt of notice from the Principal requiring it to do so, perform those obligations or
discharge those liabilities (as the case may be) and thereafter continue to perform those
obligations and discharge those liabilities (as the case may be) until the termination of the
Agreement by the effluxion of time or otherwise; and
(b) upon demand, pay to the Principal all losses, damages, costs (including legal costs on a full
indemnity basis) and expenses suffered or incurred by the Principal arising from or
connected with the Non-Owner Participant’s failure to perform any of the Non-Owner
Participant’s obligations or to discharge any of the Non-Owner Participant’s liabilities
under the Agreement.
4. Indemnity
The Guarantor indemnifies the Principal against all claims, losses, actions, damages, costs
(including legal costs on a full indemnity basis) and expenses that the Principal may suffer or incur
arising from or in connection with the Agreement by reason of:
(a) any default in or breach or failure to perform or observe any of the terms and conditions of
the Agreement by the Non-Owner Participant; or
(b) the Non-Owner Participant being wound up (except for the purpose of reconstruction or
amalgamation the terms of which have previously been approved in writing by the
Principal) or becoming insolvent or bankrupt or entering into a composition with its
creditors or having an administrator, a receiver, a receiver/manager, liquidator appointed or
any other external controller (as that term is defined in the Corporations Act) appointed.
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5. Payments
All payments which the Guarantor is required to make under this Deed must be made without any
set-off, counterclaim, condition or deduction and must be made by the Guarantor on demand by the
Principal.
6. Certificate
A certificate signed by an authorised representative of the Principal, or any person authorised in
writing by an authorised representative of the Principal, stating the amount payable under this Deed
is prima facie evidence of that amount.
7. Representations and warranties
(a) The Guarantor represents and warrants that:
(i) it has full power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this
Deed;
(ii) it has taken all necessary action to authorise the execution, delivery and
performance of this Deed;
(iii) this Deed constitutes legal, valid and binding obligations;
(iv) each of its representations and warranties contained in this Deed are true, correct
and not misleading when made or repeated or regarded as made or repeated; and
(v) all information provided to the Principal by or on behalf of the Guarantor is true
and correct in all material respects and is not, whether by omission of information
or otherwise, misleading.
(b) The representations and warranties in this clause 7 survive the execution of this Deed.
8. Continuing obligation
The guarantee and indemnity contained in this Deed are continuing obligations of the Guarantor,
despite any settlement of account or the occurrence of any other thing and remains in full force and
effect until all the obligations of the Non-Owner Participant under the Agreement have been
performed.
9. Independent obligation
The guarantee and indemnity contained in this Deed are separate and independent obligations of the
Guarantor and neither limits the generality of the other.
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10. Nature of Guarantor’s obligations
(a) The obligations of the Guarantor under this Deed in respect of the Agreement are principal
obligations and are not released, discharged or otherwise affected by anything which but for
this provision might have that effect, including:
(i) the grant to any person of any time, concession, waiver, covenant not to sue or
other indulgence or release;
(ii) any arrangement made between the Principal and Non-Owner Participant;
(iii) any alteration, amendment or variation of the Agreement; or
(iv) any assignment, novation, assumption or transfer of, or other dealing with, any
rights or obligations under the Agreement.
(b) Paragraph (a) applies irrespective of the consent or knowledge, or lack of consent or
knowledge, of the Principal, the Guarantor or any other person of any event described in
paragraph (a) or of any rule of law or equity to the contrary.
11. Limit of liability
(a) The Guarantor's liability to the Principal under this Deed shall:
(i) be subject to the same limitations of liability as per the Agreement;
(ii) be no greater than the aggregate liability of the Non-Owner Participant to the
Principal under the Agreement; and
(iii) expire on the date that all of the Non-Owner Participant's liabilities expire under
the Agreement,
excluding any costs arising from or connected with the enforcement of this Deed (including
the costs set out in clause 12).
(b) Subject to the express terms of this Deed, to the extent that the Principal seeks to exercise
any of its rights against the Guarantor under this Deed, the Guarantor will have and be
entitled to the same rights as the Non-Owner Participant has and is entitled to under the
Agreement.
12. Costs and expenses
The Guarantor must pay all taxes, duties, fees, costs and expenses in relation to the negotiation,
preparation, execution, delivery, stamping, registration and discharge of this Deed and the
enforcement or protection or attempted enforcement or protection of any rights or powers of the
Principal under this Deed, including any legal costs and expenses and any professional consultant’s
fees in respect of any of the above on a full indemnity basis.
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13. Notices
13.1 How and where notices may be sent
A notice or other communication (Notice) under this Deed must be in writing and delivered by hand
or sent by pre-paid post or fax to a party to this Deed at the address or the fax number for that party
specified in clause 13.5 or as otherwise specified by a party by Notice.
13.2 Notices sent by company
A Notice sent by a company must be signed by a duly authorised officer or representative of the
sender.
13.3 Email not to be used
Email or similar electronic means of communication must not be used to give Notices under this
Deed.
13.4 When Notices are taken to have been given and received
(a) A Notice sent by post is regarded as given and received on the second Business Day
following the date of postage.
(b) A fax is regarded as given and received on production of a transmission report by the
machine from which the fax was sent which indicates that the fax was sent in its entirety to
the recipient’s fax number, unless the recipient informs the sender that the Notice is
illegible or incomplete within 4 hours of it being transmitted.
(c) A Notice delivered or received other than on a Business Day or after 4pm (recipient’s time)
is regarded as received at 9am on the following Business Day and a Notice delivered or
received before 9am (recipient’s time) is regarded as received at 9am.
13.5 Contact details
Any Notice must be addressed as below:
(a) Guarantor
Address: [insert details]
Attention: [insert details]
Facsimile: [insert details]; and
(b) Principal
Address: Main Roads
Don Aitken Centre
Waterloo Crescent
East Perth WA 6004
Attention: Mark Hazebroek
Facsimile: [insert details].
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14. General
14.1 Governing law and jurisdiction
This Deed is governed by the laws of Western Australia and the Guarantor irrevocably submits to
the exclusive jurisdiction of courts exercising jurisdiction in Western Australia and courts of appeal
from them in respect of any proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Deed. Each party
irrevocably waives any objection to the venue of any legal process in these courts on the basis that
the process has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
14.2 Prohibition and enforceability
(a) Any provision of, or the application of any provision of, this Deed which is prohibited in
any jurisdiction is, in that jurisdiction, ineffective only to the extent of that prohibition.
(b) Any provision of, or the application of any provision of, this Deed which is void, illegal or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction does not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of
that provision in any other jurisdiction or of the remaining provisions in that or any other
jurisdiction.
14.3 Waivers
Waiver of any right, power, authority, discretion or remedy arising upon default under this Deed
must be in writing and signed by the party granting the waiver.
14.4 Cumulative rights
The rights, powers and remedies provided in this Deed are cumulative and are not exclusive of any
rights, powers or remedies provided by law.
Executed as a deed in [insert location]
Executed as a deed in accordance with
section 127 of the Corporations Act 2001 by
[insert]:
Director Signature Director/Secretary Signature
Print Name Print Name
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Schedule 14 – Issues Resolution Procedures
1. Resolution principles
The principles that will underpin how issues arising out of or in connection with this Agreement will
be handled by the Participants are agreed as follows:
(a) issues must be immediately notified;
(b) issues must be resolved, or attempted to be resolved, in accordance with the Alliance
Principles;
(c) issues must be resolved at the lowest practical and appropriate level within the Alliance
(commensurate with the nature of the issue) in a way that promotes ongoing efficient and
cooperative relations; and
(d) issues must be resolved as quickly as possible.
2. Resolution process
The resolution of issues involves consideration of the issue at various levels:
(a) The Alliance Board must use its best endeavours to first attempt to resolve an issue through
no less than two separate Alliance Board meetings.
(b) If the issue cannot be resolved in the first instance by the Alliance Board, the Alliance
Board must refer the issue to a separate meeting of authorised officers from each
Participant who must meet within 2 Business Days of the issue being referred to them and
attempt to resolve the issue within 5 Business Days following their first meeting.
(c) If the issue cannot be resolved in the second instance by the authorised officers of each
Participant, the Participants must refer the issue to an Expert appointed by the Alliance
Board. In referring the issue to an Expert, a report describing the unresolved issues and the
grounds for each Participant's position on the matter must be forwarded to the Expert.
(d) The Expert must consider the issue and make a recommendation(s) to the Alliance Board as
to how that issue should be resolved. The decision of the Expert is final and binding on the
Participants, except in the case of manifest error or if the Expert has acted in bad faith.
(e) The resolution of the issue must be documented and tabled for noting at the next Alliance
Board meeting.
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Executed as a Deed in Perth, Western Australia
Main Roads
The common seal of the Commissioner of Main
Roads was affixed to this Agreement by Richard
Sellers the Commissioner of Main Roads for the
time being in the presence of:
Witness Signature Signature of the Commissioner of Main Roads
Print Name
Participant 1
Signed sealed and delivered for and on behalf
of CPB Contractors Pty Ltd (ACN 000 893
667) by its Attorneys under a Power of
Attorney dated 10 October 2016 (and the
Attorneys declare that the Attorneys have not
received any notice of the revocation of such
Power of Attorney) in the presence of:
Attorney Signature Attorney Signature
Print Name Print Name
Witness Signature Witness Signature
Print Name Print Name
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Participant 2
Executed as a deed in accordance with
section 127 of the Corporations Act 2001 by
Georgiou Group Pty Ltd (ACN 073 851 948):
Director Signature Director/Secretary Signature
Print Name Print Name
Participant 3
Executed as a deed in accordance with
section 127 of the Corporations Act 2001 by
P.M.R. Quarries Pty Ltd (ACN 008 866 448):
Director Signature Director/Secretary Signature
Print Name Print Name
Participant 4
Signed sealed and delivered for and on behalf of
GHD Pty Ltd (ACN 008 488 373) by its
attorney under power of attorney dated 10
October 2016 who has received no notice of
revocation in the presence of :
Witness Signature Attorney Signature
Print Name Print Name
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Participant 5
Signed for AECOM Australia Pty Ltd (ACN
093 846 925) by a director and its attorney under
power of attorney dated 10 October 2016 who
has received no notice of revocation in the
presence of:
Director Signature Attorney Signature
Print Name Print Name
Witness Signature
Print Name
Participant 6
Signed for BG&E Pty Limited (ACN 150 804
603) by a director and its attorney under power of
attorney dated 10 October 2016 who has received
no notice of revocation in the presence of:
Director Signature Attorney Signature
Print Name Print Name
Witness Signature
Print Name