Many other examples of poor performance have been excluded from the 'major problems' category despite them having serious consequences for public authorities, service users and staff. For example, Bradford City Council award two 25-year Building Schools for the Future contracts in 2006 (3 schools) and 2009 (4 schools). The capital costs were £78.0m and £214.5m respectively with unitary costs of £313.4m and £671.9m. The facilities were built by Costain plc, financed by HSBC with facilities management provided by Amey plc.
Both contracts included 5-year ICT contracts. The ICT for the first contract has returned in-house at the end of the contract. The second contract has "…a range of technical and service performance issues" resulting in the Council negotiating an early termination of this contract and the service returned in-house. The Council made £1.5m performance reductions from the facilities management contract since 2008 (Bradford City Council, 2015).
Knowsley Council discovered fire safety failings in eight schools built by Balfour Beatty plc in 2008-09. A fire in the Knowsley Park school kitchen in 2015 led to the inspection of all eight schools, which revealed 60 fire dampers or shutters had been wrongly installed and impossible to check and maintain. Many failed maintenance checks. The contractor undertook remedial work and the schools remained open.
Balmoral High School, Belfast, closed in summer 2007 just five years after it was built under a PFI project. It was designed for 500 pupils but pupil numbers declined to 154 in 2007, reported a 'botched ' planning by the Belfast Education and Library Board who are committed to paying £7.4m for the remaining 20 years of the contract (Press Association, 2007). The school was used briefly by a primary school waiting for completion its new school and in 2014 St Gerald's Educational special school moved in. The Board spent £3.1m adapting the accommodation (Doyle, 2015).