Approach

Given the scope of our brief, we approached our review with three principal objectives:

(1)  Be as inclusive as possible when gathering feedback from PFI industry participants;

(2)  Create an environment where consultees would feel comfortable enough to provide "unvarnished" feedback; and

(3)  Invite feedback from as many PFI industry participants as possible.

From an inclusivity perspective, we are satisfied that we have gathered feedback from a sufficiently broad enough cross section of the PFI industry that was necessary in order for our findings to represent a balanced view of the state of the PFI industry. It should be noted that our findings are not just based on feedback from PFI industry senior executives, but also individuals actually participating in the PFI industry at the point of delivery of the relevant PFI services.

In order to create a "safe space" environment where consultees could feel comfortable enough to provide "unvarnished" and open feedback, all meetings were conducted on the basis that we would not attribute quotes to consultees, disclose the project specific circumstances discussed or produce case studies, but that any feedback given would inform the themes in our report. To the extent that we took notes in any of the meetings that we held, those notes are proprietary to us, have not been shared with any other party and will remain confidential.

In total, we interviewed more than 160 individuals, representing approximately 90 organisations. More than 50% of the organisations that provided feedback to us were Public Sector Stakeholders (as summarised below). The table below summarises the breadth of the public and private stakeholders that provided feedback to us.