'Well, if you know what you want, I will make it'. Is it as simple as that? A good supplier will not just make what a Senior User wants but take responsibility for that product. It is not only the Senior User who has requirements. There are requirements that the Senior Supplier should, or better, is obliged to consider when making the project product.
One has to bear in mind that the Senior User (in many cases) is not the specialist when it comes to the product. A pilot is not the specialist when it comes to plane construction. He will know how to fly one and might understand how it is constructed but being the specialist requires other competencies. Those competencies are to be expected from or at least represented by the supplier of the plane. In many cases those requirements are applied by law, regulation, good practices and so on.
In a Project Board the Senior Supplier should represent those requirements and when needed explain the consequences of those requirements. So both Senior User and Senior Supplier represent interests, requirements, restrictions of different kinds and origins that sometimes conflict with each other. And, as stated before, these should be discussed in the Project Board.
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