Managing Your Mid-life PFI and PPP Arrangements

Whilst it seems everyone is gearing up for and thinking about PFI, PPP or LIFT hand back, what if you are still in the early or mid concession stages, with years left to run on the operational contract?

This presentation will focus on how to get the best out of your PPP /PFI arrangements over its remaining life, whilst not prejudicing any handback considerations.

So much may have changed since your buildings were handed over – the services you deliver, how you deliver them, the needs of those you deliver too, your workforce and their preferred ways of working… the list could go on.

You are probably therefore considering how to ensure the estate continues to meet your needs , whilst perhaps feeling wary of re-opening those debates and discussion you remember from when the deal was originally made. Or perhaps you weren’t around at the time and don’t know what to expect.

If so this is the presentation for you! The key themes that will be talked through include:

• The different forms of PFI/ PPP and why it matters
• What constitutes a variation, how to deal with them and why you should face the fear and do it anyway
• What good contract management looks and the contractual pifalls to avoid
• How to build and maintain good relationships with your private sector partner

The session will include lessons learned from our experience in establishing, delivering and managing PPP vehicles and concessions over a 20 year period, as well as client and end user voices from our lived experience as a consultancy working with those who deliver services from these buildings.