Our PPP/PFi unit has operated as a specialist team of Project
Management over the last 10 years, and as the PFi procurement
method evolves into partnerships procurement, our specialist
team continues to be commissioned to provide Management
and Consultancy Services for many of the most pioneering
PPP/PFi projects in the UK and worldwide. We provide the range of consultancy services across the
procurement method, from inception and business case stages,
through procurement, and setting to work facilities, acting
on behalf of both private and public sectors, and finally
supporting banks and funders as due diligence technical
advisers.
Expertise and Capability
As one of the first players in PPP/PFi ten years ago, Turner & Townsend
is now the fastest growing UK construction and management
company. We are recognised as a leading consultancy business,
winning many awards for projects delivered on behalf of
our clients; in 2006 we were awarded PM Firm of the Year
and QS Firm of the Year, and over the last five years,
we have ranked top three in the PPF TA league tables, trading
top place on and off with our peers. Currently we have
achieved one of the top 2 TA ranking in the PPF league
tables with 85 projects amounting to £5 billion of
investment.
Our focus is primarily in social infrastructure, including
education, health, transport and accommodation. Increasingly,
we are transferring our skills to new sector including
waste and urban regeneration, exporting PPP skills into
the Global market, as well as applying our services to
iconic UK projects such as the 2012 Olympics.
Partnerships are at the heart of PPP, and we are recognised
for our strong relationship building culture, over 80%
of our PPP projects are based upon continuing relationships
and 50% of the project owners have worked with T&T
for more than 3 years.
Our Approach
We have evolved our products and services, in response
to the evolution of PFi procurement, into PPP or partnerships
procurement. Our approach to PPP consultancy may be summarised
as the pursuit of an ambition to increase our involvement
across the spectrum of PPP procurement and its evolving
application across the world.
For example, in Building Schools for the Future (BSF),
we have led multi-disciplinary teams in testing options
for delivering the Local Education Partnership, the following
waves of construction, operational and facilities maintenance
contracts.
These “lessons learnt and options reviews” have
tested the favoured PfS LEP model, against Local Authority
frameworks and other hybrid arrangements. We have worked
the options, pros, and cons, measured the benefits and
dis-benefits with a wide stakeholder team comprising Council
advisers, Financial and Legal advisers and PfS representatives,
and provided an output report from which the business case
stage can be robustly launched.
In the pre-delivery stages of PPP procurement, we haveworked
with PfS to carry out “readiness to deliver” reviews,
testing our clients management structure, team, roles and
responsibilities of the Council’s delivery team,
and making constructive observations of how to better and
improve capability which will be reflected in greater delivery
certainty of the schools and services set in place by the
LEP.
At the far extreme of PPP procurement, our TA team
has represented funders on the two largest secondary market
mergers and acquisitions deals to be let on the UK market
in the last year. The impact of these assets and the management
of the respective portfolio’s having far reaching
influences upon the progression of PPP procured projects
across the UK’s social infrastructure.
In the next
10 years we believe that our contribution to the forward
progress of PPP will be focussed upon driving
the evolution of PPP and partnerships procurement in
a pragmatic technical manner.
Expanding and Exporting our Skills
We continually strive to export our skills through evolving
UK models into appropriate vehicles for local markets
in our 56 offices around the world and are now actively
involved
in:
- Europe, particularly Germany, Italy and Greece
- The
Americas, notably in Mexico
- Australasia and the Far East
throughout. We have recently been appointed TA on
the South Australian
Government
Prisons PPP
- Ireland, Schools, Transport Infrastructure
and emerging use of PPP
- South Africa, supporting
social infrastructure projects
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We actively engage overseas Ministries/Governments/Organisations
looking to import PPP into their countries. We also provide
PPP training for Government agencies such as UKTI, FCO
and NHS Estates. We also second key individuals back into
Central Government where skills and experience developed
in the private sector can then be fed back to the decision
makers. Of late, we have provided secondees to Partnerships
for Schools and Partnerships for Health.
We retain a core team of procurement specialists drawn
from construction, design and management, property, ICT,
facilities management and commercial backgrounds. This
enables us to support all aspects of consultancy within
PPP. Our wider business benefits from this core expertise,
by drawing in our project management and cost consultancy
skills in all of our PPP commissions to a significant
extent.
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