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Provision of a service 
The project company provides a service in the form of an accessible facility. The SRA 
and Banverket are however in principle responsible for the entire traffic risk. 
Complete maintenance and operation responsibility and life-cycle perspective 
Complete maintenance and operation responsibility including design, construction and 
long operation and maintenance commitments is necessary to offer project companies 
an opportunity to design a technical solution for a service from a life-cycle perspective. 
The project’s total cost, i.e. the total of capital and transaction costs, design, 
construction, and operations and maintenance costs, will then be as low as possible, 
which is important from a socio-economic perspective.
 
Final design and railway plans 
In principle the procurement should take place at as early a stage in the planning process 
as possible to maximise creative solutions. The report authors propose however that 
procurement should normally be based on approved final design and railway plans and 
not earlier. The reason for this is that 
 
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permits and planning processes include substantial uncertainties in terms of cost 
and time, and an efficient risk allocation would be difficult to achieve 
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risk increments and transaction costs could become unnecessarily high
 
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optimal competition can only be achieved if the client can guarantee that the 
project will be carried out.
 
 
Performance requirements for creativity and efficiency 
The client should define requirements in as much detail as possible for the facility and 
its operation and maintenance in terms of performance. Project companies can then 
form their service as freely as possible without unnecessary restrictions, which normally 
encourages cost-efficiency and a low total cost (life-cycle cost) for the project. 

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Requirements should be roughly divided into: 
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