12 The survey work was supported by further fieldwork, including:
■ A programme of 30 interviews with private sector contractors, financial and legal advisers, officials in Departmental Private Finance Units and staff of other relevant public and private sector bodies, as in Appendix 3. Interviews were used both to 'triangulate' the issues arising out of the survey work and to explore them in further detail. They were chosen to ensure that we heard from a good range of parties with different perspectives and interests in PFI.
■ Case examples of four PFI projects chosen to illustrate a) best practice in procuring PFI projects, b) the impact of Jarvis plc becoming insolvent, c) the management of lengthy preferred bidder negotiations and d) large-scale change during preferred bidder negotiations.
■ An advisory Expert Panel, consisting of 12 PFI experts with a variety of backgrounds from within the public and private sector. The members of the panel were:
Name | Organisation | Position |
Jo Fox | HM Treasury | Senior PFI Commercial Adviser |
Andy Carty | Partnerships UK | Chief Operating Officer |
Graham Beazley-Long | PPP Forum | Director (previously Director of Global Debt at Dresdner) |
Sally Collier | Director of Procurement Policy | |
mark Tribe, John Reed | 4ps | Project Directors |
Bruno Bodin | Business Services Association, Ecovert | Chairman of PFI Group (previously, managing Director of Ecovert FM) |
Andy Friend | Laing | Director (previously CEO), although left September 2006 to act as a commercial adviser to the Department for Transport |
Charles Abel Smith | Arup | Head of PPP Advisory |
Paul Grout | Bristol university | Professor of Political Economy |
Paul Aitchison | Department of Health | Consultant |
John Marchbank | Ministry of Defence | Deputy Director of PFU |