The Project Company has more than one point of contact with the government. In addition to communicating with the Procuring Authority, the Project Company also has to communicate with multiple ministries for permitting and compliance. This creates a complicated communication system, which has to be carefully managed.
A particular challenge faced by the Project Company is that since financial close, there have been 12 different Ministers of Transport. This has been somewhat mitigated by the fact that the head of the PMU remained the same until recently, which allowed for the development of a strong relationship between the Procuring Authority and the Project Company. While it was difficult to deal with frequent changes in ministers, the decision to form the PMU has paid off by isolating the project from many of the disruptive effects of the changes in the ministry.