The table below lists a selection of technical guidelines for MCA. The Project Team may refer to these guidelines to inform the MCA process.
Some of these guidelines assign a numerical weight to the evaluation criteria. However, the Capital Framework recommends assigning evaluation criteria a relative importance instead of weighting criteria numerically.
Document | Relevance |
|---|---|
Infrastructure Australia Assessment Framework: Guide to Multi-Criteria Analysis, 2021 | Provides clear and practical guidance on how to design and undertake MCA. These guidelines also provide an MCA template, which is a spreadsheet-based MCA tool that illustrates how Infrastructure Australia recommends applying MCA and provides examples of how results can be reported |
Business Case Development Framework, Stage 2: Options Analysis - generating and analysing options | Provides an overview of the process that should be used to undertake MCA, in particular for options analysis. The guidelines also provide examples of MCA tables and evaluation criteria |
NSW Government: Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis, February 2023 | Provides information on the features of MCA, as well as detail on how CBA and MCA analyses complement each other |
Provides guidance on the features of MCA and limitations on its use during a Business Case | |
UK Department for Communities and Local Government: Multi-criteria analysis: a manual, January 2009 | Provides comprehensive information about the use of MCA in appraisal and evaluation processes, various MCA techniques that can be used and their key features and limitations. Case studies are also referenced Although these guidelines outline how to weight criteria, there is a substantial amount of information on how to perform MCA without assigning scores and weights |
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