CDE strategy

• CDE Provided

  CDE Provided

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  Have you established how the CDE will be provided?

• CDE Host

  CDE Host

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  Are you appointing a third party to host, manage or support the CDE?

• CDE Responsibility transfer

  CDE Responsibility transfer

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  Although you can't transfer the responsibility for the CDE to a lead appointed party at this stage (because they are not currently associated with the project), you may wish to do this at some stage in the future. Do you anticipate transferring responsibility for the CDE to a lead appointed party at some stage in the future?

• CDE Configuration

  CDE Configuration

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  Configuration of the CDE might include, for example: incorporating the information container ID convention; metadata set-up and managing the interface between different CDE technical solutions. Have you established how the CDE will be configured?

• CDE Management

  CDE Management

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  If you are going to appoint a party to manage the CDE you may need to consider if there will be any prior in-house management and if so, how handover is managed. Have you established how the CDE will be managed?

• CDE Scope

  CDE Scope

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  The ISO 19650 series works on the basis that a single CDE solution (i.e. the one you are accountable for) is implemented across all parties. However, it may be appropriate for delivery teams to provide their own CDE solutions (ISO 19650-2 refers to these solutions as 'distributed CDEs') to work in conjunction with your CDE. Have you established if the CDE will support the entire information management process or is it supporting the exchange of information between you and the lead appointed parties' delivery teams?

• CDE Readiness date

  CDE Readiness date

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  The CDE solution should be operational before tendering any project appointments. In the spirit of ISO 19650-2 the CDE solution would be used to tender these appointments. Have you identified when the CDE solution and workflow needs to be operational?

• Overall CDE Strategy

  Overall CDE Strategy

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  Please explain how the CDE will be provided, configured and managed, what its scope is and when it needs to be operational