4 The Campus scheme was the subject of an Office of Government Commerce Gateway Review in November 2003. The purposes of the review were to confirm the project's readiness to move to procurement on a robust, affordable and achievable basis.
5 The Gateway Review gave the Campus scheme project a 'Red' rating, which is given to projects or programmes that should take remedial action immediately in order to achieve success. The Review made 14 recommendations that needed to be addressed without delay and noted that the project was being driven towards failure by a combination of programme management failures, inadequate resources and skills and the absence of support from the Strategic Health Authority, Department and Treasury.
6 The Independent Review Panel (2005) noted from the project's own documentation, drawn up almost a year after the Gateway Review, that:
■ 'Five [of the Gateway Review] recommendations were not addressed in a timely fashion (e.g. the new governance arrangements based around the Project Executive Group and affordability of the scheme).
■ Twelve recommendations did not achieve the right outcomes (e.g. those relating to Mission Critical programme treatment, Programme Management disciplines, project team resourcing with right skills and top-level Government support for realising land requirements).
■ Eleven recommendations were not completed (e.g. adding practical construction and PFI expertise to the pool of Non-executive Director experience, Technical Director, Heavy-weight Project Manager, Change Control procedures, formal Assumptions Control, Ground Surveys).'12
7 It was the view of the Independent Review Panel that failing to address adequately the concerns of the Gateway Review in a timely manner had a substantive impact on the scheme.
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