HM Treasury provided a project list consisting of 60 projects (evenly spread across departments)5 and Mott MacDonald identified an additional 20 projects. The aim was to gather a representative sample of projects procured traditionally and through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and implemented over the last 20 years (with values exceeding £40m at 2001 prices). Mott MacDonald was able to obtain sufficient information on a total of 50 projects for the statistical analysis. Appendix B lists the projects included in the study.
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5 Initially, major departmental capital programmes were chosen, on the basis that they were self-evidently the most important. Within these, all projects satisfying the study requirements were selected, up to a maximum of ten per department. Where there were more than ten in a particular programme, only the largest were selected.