Governance Assurance & Capital Stewardship
From identification to focused owner-side governance
Engineering development and procurement establish how approved feasibility intent is converted into binding technical, commercial and contractual commitments. As projects move from design into procurement and contracting, flexibility reduces rapidly and early decisions can lock in cost, schedule, risk allocation and interface exposure. Governance Decision Intelligence (GDI) provides independent, owner-side governance insight at this critical stage by maintaining forward visibility over whether engineering choices, procurement strategies and contracting structures are likely to preserve approved intent as commitments form. Operating above engineering teams, procurement functions and advisors, GDI supports early owner awareness while authority remains intact and exposure remains governable.
Purpose and Intent
To govern the quality, authority and defensibility of engineering and procurement commitments before execution commences, ensuring approved intent remains aligned with contractual positions and owner accountability is preserved as obligations become binding.
Governance Pressure
Where exposure begins to concentrate
| Where pressure concentrates | As engineering decisions and procurement strategies translate feasibility assumptions into binding technical specifications, contracts and risk allocations. |
| Why it matters | Early engineering and contracting decisions can lock in cost, schedule and performance exposure long before delivery outcomes reveal misalignment. |
| Owner exposure | Authority fragments across contractors and suppliers, while cost, interface and risk exposure hardens ahead of execution visibility. |
Governance Gap
Where decisions harden without sufficient governance
| What becomes under-governed | Alignment between approved intent, engineering choices, procurement strategies and contractual risk allocation. |
| Typical gap | Engineering and procurement decisions progress independently, embedding exposure through contracts and interfaces without sufficient owner-side governance over downstream consequences. |
| Consequence if unaddressed | Loss of owner authority, constrained recovery options and exposure embedded before execution performance makes issues visible or reversible. |
Governance Mandate Activated
Formal owner-side governance is now applied
| Activation Basis | GDI confirms that engineering and procurement commitments require formal owner-side governance to preserve authority, alignment and defensibility before execution commences. |
| Mandate applied | A targeted governance mandate is activated to govern commitment logic, contracting alignment, interface control and risk allocation without assuming delivery responsibility. |
| Owner outcome | Engineering and procurement commitments remain coherent, defensible and aligned to approved intent, preserving owner control before execution pressure escalates. |
Sarel Blaauw
senior partner
+61 498 785 165