2.37 Our census focused on the post-contract construction experience of departments' and agencies' PFI projects involving the construction of a built asset, which was complete or due to be complete by summer 2002. In this report we have not set out to examine the value for money of the original deals for these projects. In particular, we have not examined the price which departments have paid to secure the risk transfer which has generally been achieved in the PFI construction projects surveyed. We have examined these wider aspects of value for money in previous reports on individual PFI building projects or groups of projects (Figure 12).
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| Report title | Number | Report Title | Number |
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| The Skye Bridge | DSS, Newcastle Estate | ||
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| Bridgend and Fazakerley Prisons | The First Four DBFO Roads | HC476, Session 1997-98 | |
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| A74(M)/M74 DBFO Road | Dartford and Gravesham Hospital | ||
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| Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds | The Berlin Embassy | ||
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| Redevelopment of MOD Main Building | MOD: The Joint Services Command & Staff College | ||
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| The PFI contract for the redevelopment of West Middlesex University Hospital |
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2.38 In addition, we have not sought to judge how well the construction element would have been performed had these contracts been let using the other procurement methods outlined above, drawing on the initiatives and improvements which have been generally adopted in the construction industry in recent years. However, the generally positive results of the projects in our census compare favourably with the historical experience of public sector procurement of other construction projects.