PFI Project
| Capital value of change £000 | Associated operating cost in first year £000 | Description of change | How was the cost validated? |
Not suitable for competitive tendering | ||||
Attack Helicopters - Apache Simulator Training | 17,700 | nil | Enhancement to equipment and software. | This was proprietary software from the existing supplier and the Department was tied into the contract. |
Attack Helicopters - Apache Simulator Training | 1,300 | nil | Enhancement to equipment and software. | This was proprietary software from the existing supplier and the Department was tied into the contract. |
Attack Helicopters - Apache Simulator Training | 3,950 | nil | Introduction of enhanced Weapon Effects simulations. | This was proprietary software from the existing supplier and the Department was tied into the contract. |
Attack Helicopters - Apache Simulator Training | 1,600 | nil | Software upgrade. | This was proprietary software from the existing supplier and the Department was tied into the contract. |
Attack Helicopters - Apache Simulator Training | 9,800 | nil | Incorporation of Weapons Effects 2 upgrade. | This was proprietary software from the existing supplier and the Department was tied into the contract. |
Attack Helicopters - Apache Simulator Training | 8,000 | nil | Enhancement to equipment and software. | This was proprietary software from the existing supplier and the Department was tied into the contract. |
Avon & Western Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Trust | 459 | 50 | Change of use from an adult acute to a low secure facility. | Costs were validated by comparison with a schedule of rates and technical advice from quantity surveyors. The change was not competitively tendered as the PFI contractor was refurbishing another building on the same site and the Trust was concerned about: duplication of set up costs and preliminaries arising from two contractors operating on the same site; costs associated with overcoming interface issues (e.g. access to utilities, site access, easements, minimising disruption to the remainder of the operational hospital site). |
Greater Manchester Police Authority PFI Project | 104 | 2 | Fully network the access control system and additional door control to five custody suites. | Validated through a reference price based on a specification. The change was not put out to competition because there were no other suppliers whose equipment would interface with the original equipment and the original system was still under warranty. The competitive tender process is available to the Authority and will be utilised should other large variations be required. |
HMRC - 100 Parliament Street | 104 | nil | To provide a space planning facility to carry out a re-configuration of the building. | Plans were provided by the consultants responsible for the PFI project. Expert knowledge of the site and the mechanical and electrical systems was needed to maximise the space available. Costs were validated by making a comparison with the costs of similar exercises in the past. The work was not competitively tendered because it required a thorough knowledge of the site to ensure that planned usage could be maintained by the facilities management providers and to protect the department from health and safety and security risks in its future use of the building. |
Home Office Building | 300 | Not available | 300 extra desks as a result of the closure of the satellite building. | The Department wanted to match the existing desks. These were acquired after a competitive tendering process and the extra desks were bought from the same supplier at the same cost per desk. The contract allows the Department to insist on competitive tendering if required. |
Islington street properties | 1,500 | nil | Increase in the number of electrical sockets to be provided in each home to meet NHBC standard or in some cases additional sockets. | The contractor was already contracted to install sockets and this change increased the number to be installed, so it would have been impractical to go out to tender for the additional work. The cost was checked against BCIS rates and examined by a quantity surveyor. |
Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility | 2,700 | nil | Software upgrade to the Merlin Elements of the Training Service. | There were two elements to the change which both involved proprietary software and the Department was tied into the contracts. |
Merton Schools - Age of Transfer | 1,306 | nil | Lump sum compensation payment to sub-contractor as Facilities Management services removed from the contract under a part termination clause for two of the six schools in the original project. | External financial and legal advice for negotiated settlement, derived from figures in the financial model for the deals. This contract change was not capable of being tendered. |