8 Our 2008 survey indicates that 63 per cent of non-PFI projects reported delivering to timetable, and 54 per cent to contracted price. Of those projects that were delivered late, two thirds also incurred price increases.
9 There are difficulties in obtaining truly representative data on non-PFI projects because there is no central list of all non-PFI projects. This contrasts with PFI projects for which the Treasury maintains a database of contracts which have been let. Our 2008 survey of non-PFI projects was drawn from a list of projects supplied by Glenigan, which collects project information from planning applications.
10 The data for non-PFI projects in our 2003 report were derived from a third party survey undertaken in 1998 and are now too dated to allow meaningful comparisons with our 2008 results, which also have wider sectoral coverage and are likely to be more informative. Data on non-PFI performance after 2003 are available from a number of other sources, though they are not fully comparable with each other or with our 2008 findings in terms of methodology or sectoral coverage. While caution is needed in interpreting the data, these other sources do, however, indicate a similar timetable and price performance to our 2008 non-PFI construction survey results.