Once the design team has been appointed, the project team's responsibility is to support the design process, give feedback to the design team when needed and ensure timely decision-making. It is important that there is a key contact in the project team to liaise with the design team, and to take on the following key responsibilities:
- ensure the design team has all the necessary information to develop the design
- act as the first point of contact for the project team, ensuring decisions made by the project team, steering team or the governing body are communicated to the design team
- take overall responsibility for budget management, including responsibility for feeding back information to the project sponsor and/or the project sponsor's representative
- ensure the design is agreed and signed off at key stages by the project sponsor and the governing body