Gateway Review Process
The Gateway Review Process examines programs and projects at key decision points in their lifecycle.
In order to provide a project’s Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) with meaningful, timely advice, a review should be conducted prior to a project decision point. For example, a Gateway review of a business case should occur several weeks before the business case is submitted through the relevant Public Authority approval process. This enables recommendations to be addressed before the business case is submitted for approval.
The review provides a project's SRO with independent guidance that can improve or advance a project. The primary purpose of a review is to add value to the project team's own expertise in order to help them be more successful in delivering the project.
Gateway reviews are applicable to a wide range of programs and projects. To help you determine if your project may be suitable for a Gateway Review, please complete the project assessment tool.
Examples of projects that might be reviewed include:
acquisition programs and projects;
infrastructure (property/construction) developments;
organisational change and other change initiatives;
procurements using or establishing framework arrangements; and
IT-enabled business change procurements using or establishing framework arrangements.
Click on the gates below to access specific information about each gate.
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Establish Business Need
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Strategic Assessment
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To confirm business strategy and need
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Develop Business Case
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Business Case
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To confirm business
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Develop Procurement Strategy
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Readiness for Market
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To confirm procurement
method and sources of supply
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Competitive Procurement
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Tender Decision
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To confirm investment decision
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Award & Implement Contract
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Readiness for Service
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To confirm the readiness of the organisation to implement the business changes
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Manage Contract
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Benefits Evaluation
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To confirm "in service" benefits
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Closure
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Feedback
Gateway provides a project’s Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) with independent guidance that can improve or advance a project. An SRO is a vital member of the Gateway process as the key client. All SROs to date have indicated that they found the process beneficial with positive outcomes. The following are some comments from our SROs.
“This is a very valuable process which provides an SRO with comfort that the project is on track. I would recommend it to all SROs”.
“The review team were smart, experienced, focused and friendly – it doesn’t get any better”.
“An excellent contribution from the review team. Thank you”.
“The review team interacted extremely well with the project team. A very positive and effective process”.
“We consider ourselves fortunate to have had the benefit of the review team’s collective experience and the Gateway Review Process”.