Assessment Framework

Publication Date

16 July 2021

The Assessment Framework is designed to help you develop high-quality infrastructure proposals for submission to Infrastructure Australia. It provides a national standard for best-practice infrastructure development and explains our requirements and process for assessing proposals.

The Assessment Framework is divided into an overview and four main volumes, reflecting the four stages of project development and submission. It is supported by detailed technical guidelines.

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Overview

This document gives an overview of the Assessment Framework, our submission stages and our process for assessing infrastructure proposals.

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Stage 1: Defining problems and opportunities

Find out how to identify and define problems and opportunities and make a Stage 1 submission to us.

Stage 2: Identifying and analysing options

Find out how to identify and analyse options to address the problems and opportunities you identified in Stage 1 and make a Stage 2 submission to us.

Stage 3: Developing a business case

Find out how to develop a business case for your infrastructure proposal and make a Stage 3 submission to us.

Stage 4: Post completion review

Find out how to conduct a post completion review of a completed project and document it via a Stage 4 submission.

Proposal development training

The Improving Investment Decisions training program is designed for practitioners involved in the development and delivery of business cases or submissions to Infrastructure Australia.

Fact sheet: What's new in this edition of the Assessment Framework?

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Detailed technical guidelines

These documents provide you with additional detail to support the development of your proposal, including specific methodologies and approaches you can use when developing your submission to us.

These documents act as a support to the various volumes of the Assessment Framework, which provide the requirements of each stage of proposal development.

Guide to program appraisal

Guidelines on how infrastructure proposals can be packaged into programs, how to develop and appraise programs, and how we assess them.

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Guide to multi-criteria analysis

Guidelines on how multi-criteria analysis can be used to analyse options for an infrastructure proposal, as part of a Stage 2 submission to us.

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Guide to economic appraisal

Guidelines on how to apply economic appraisal to determine the impacts and merit of an infrastructure proposal for submission to us.

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Guide to risk and uncertainty analysis

Guidelines to assess risk and uncertainty, and test how an infrastructure proposal will perform under different conditions.

Guide to assessing greenhouse gas emissions (interim)

Guidelines to consider greenhouse gas emissions targets in infrastructure proposals.

Submission templates and checklists

Use these templates and checklists to check that you have included all necessary information in your submission.

First, find out which submission stage is most relevant to you and how to submit. Then review the relevant volume of the Assessment Framework and get in touch with us so we can help you prepare your submission.

You can contact us via email at proposals@infrastructureaustralia.gov.au or call us on (02) 8114 1900.