The product of a Gateway review is a Gateway Review Report which is handed over to the SRO on the last day of the Onsite Review Activity. Review reports are confidential, high level and action-oriented and around eight to ten pages in length. They are prepared for the Sponsoring Agency, not for the Gateway Unit. Because the review team meet daily with the SRO and a draft of the report is usually provided on the second last day of the review. The content and findings of the report should not be a surprise to the SRO but rather a summation of the advice and discussions that have been held during the review activity. Regardless of how critical its recommendations are, the Gateway report itself does not stop a project. It is the SRO’s responsibility to decide the appropriate action to address the Gateway review findings.

The overall status for a Gateway reviewed project is indicated by a ‘colour code’ system of red, amber and green which allows the SRO to quickly determine how critical the recommendations are. It is emphasised to Sponsoring Agencies that a red rating does not indicate a project should stop; rather, it is critical to the success of the project that the issues raised in the report are addressed. An amber rating indicates that the issues raised in the report should be addressed before the next Gateway review. A green rating indicates that the project is on target, but may benefit from implementing the recommendations in respect to the issues raised in the review.

As part of the Gateway Unit is broader policy work in ensuring lessons learnt in projects are shared across the APS, a summary of the review recommendations are provided to the Unit at the end of the review for collation on a non-attributable basis. As part of this lessons learnt activity the Unit also receives a full copy of the Gateway Review Report but only once the next Gate is completed and in the case of the final gate review (Gate 5 – Benefits Realisation), the report is received three months following the review. The Unit does not receive a copy of the report to follow up what action was taken with respect to the recommendations, it is only for the purposes of developing the lessons learnt policy advice and to ensure the quality of reports is of an acceptable and consistent standard across reviews.