As narrated in the body of this document, many early PPP contracts are now nearing the time of Handback, which comes with criteria concerning the required condition of the asset.
As part of SFT's business plan, the Operational Contract Management team workplan for financial year 2018-19 included reviews of projects that were approaching the end of contract within the next decade or so with a specific focus on planned preventative maintenance (PPM) works and lifecycle replacement works.
Three operational PPP projects were initially identified for detailed condition survey reviews into lifecycle and PPM compliance.
The three identified projects included a broad representative sample of accommodation facilities across education, acute health, primary and community health buildings.
Also, three separate building surveying practices were appointed on a similar scope of service which was helpful in terms of understanding how each surveying practice approached the surveys and indeed, reported their respective outcomes. The lessons learnt from this approach have subsequently been incorporated into the latest specification and have helped to inform the approach for subsequent surveys in terms of improving the process, benchmarking of fees and survey scope refinements.
Prior to the consultant appointments, SFT developed base methodologies and scopes of service that were project specific to allow each public body to appoint their respective external consultant via their own frameworks.