How does an OGC Gateway Review differ from an audit?
An OGC Gateway Review is held before key decision points in the lifecycle of a procurement project. The review teams are made up of independent experienced practitioners who bring their prior knowledge and skills to bear to identify the key issues that need to be addressed for the project to succeed. The review criteria are established and published in a set of workbooks available on OGC’s website. The work of an OGC Gateway Review team is for the project SRO, and ownership of the review report and recommendations lies with the SRO. An OGC Gateway Review is carried out over a period of 4-5 days at the most with the review report presented and discussed with the SRO before the review team leaves the client premises. Internal Audit primarily provides an independent and objective opinion to the Accounting Officer on risk management, control and governance, by measuring and evaluating their effectiveness in achieving an organisation’s agreed objectives. In most government bodies Internal A
