3 Ps in a Pod

Partnerships Bulletin recently revealed the amount of money one NHS trust spent on legal fees related to its PFI battle. The team delve into the question of what this means for future disputes and relationships in PFI and PPP contracts. But first, they take a quick look at the new players in Prime Minister Andy BUrnham’s Cabinet.

The team consider:
What the new Cabinet appointments mean for PPP - 48 seconds
What an Andy Burnham infrastructure programme might look like - 4:03
Legal fees in PFI disputes - 10:22
The role of NISTA’s Conflict Avoidance Forum - 14:12

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The UK continues to see struggles with operational PFI projects, and with more heading towards handback in the years to come, it is likely that more conflicts will emerge as hard negotiations get underway.

With this in mind - and with NISTA developing its Conflict Avoidance Forum (CAF) to potentially catch problems before they turn into full-blown disputes - Partnerships Bulletin editor Paul Jarvis recently chaired a roundtable in association with the CIOB to take stock of how things have progressed and whether the learnings from industry touchstones such as DLA Piper’s Project Autumn and the government-commissioned White Fraiser Report have been put into practice.

The team consider:
Views on NISTA’s Conflict Avoidance Forum - 2:25
The future of human resources within FM - 9:46
How new contracts can learn the lessons of the PFI experience - 12:49

To read our full write-up of the roundtable, click here
https://www.partnershipsbulletin.com/article/1964306/roundtable-handling-expiry-tacking-behaviours-pfi-contracts

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The UK’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) has promised to take a “partnership” approach, working with the private sector to deliver the infrastructure needed. However, details on the exact role and nature of private finance remain scant.

The team pick through the DIP and ask what it might mean for the industry. They consider:
How an Andy Burnham leadership could impact future investment in defence and beyond - 8:35
How the DIP could create new PPP opportunities in space - 11:48
Using private finance to deliver a combination of both military and civilian projects - 16:00
What comes next? - 17:52

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Anton Steshenko, an academic at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, at the University of Maryland, explains the thinking behind his latest paper, advocating a new approach to small scale infrastructure initiatives that could unlock significant private capital by aggregating projects.

Speaking to editor Paul Jarvis, he discusses:
The theory behind the ‘Hybrid Institutional Capital Model’
Learnings from the Connecticut Green Bank, Montgomery County Green Bank, and the UK Green Investment Bank - 6:46
The sectors that could benefit from an aggregated approach - 10:29
The difficulties facing successful aggregation - 18:43

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James Stewart joins 3Ps in a Pod for a discussion around some of the key learnings for the PPP market in the UK. He picks out some main points from his review into HS2, before going on to consider how major projects and a future PPP programme might avoid the pitfalls of the past.

He also explores:
Tackling gold-plating on public projects - 4:53
Tackling negative behaviours in operational contracts - 11:07
The prospect for new PPP projects in the UK - 15:20
What is needed to deliver a new programme of PPPs - 18:06

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