Facilitate contact between Authorities with similar contracts

2.32  Departmental PFUs should be maintaining an up-to-date list of authority contract managers or contact officers for the projects they fund and this should be made available to each of the contract managers within a sector or where there are common service providers. This will enable contract managers to be aware of any negotiations that have been held with their PFI providers.

2.33  PFI networking groups, such as those which have been facilitated by Local Partnerships, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department of Health, have been effective for sharing best practice in the past.