Public Private Partnerships (PPP) or Privately Financed Initiatives (PFI) provide a mechanism for government to achieve better value for money by engaging the private sector to deliver a project or service, compared with the option of delivering the project and/or service entirely at the public sector's cost and risk.   This approach enables risk transfer to the private sector, and harnesses private sector management skills, innovation and efficiencies, through a long term and output based contractual arrangement.

Planning and delivery of PPP involves a wide range of capabilities, the majority of which Capital Insight can provide through in-house expertise.  The balance of the required capabilities - principally legal and accounting advice, is briefed, coordinated and managed by Capital Insight so that clients enjoy a single point of contact as well as a single point of accountability.

As client advisor, Capital Insight deliberately avoids opportunities to be part of consortia tendering to carry out construction works so that we remain free of any real or perceived conflict of interest and are able to provide impartial advice.  A significant proportion of our work is for public sector clients.  As such, we are familiar with and work within the processes and guidelines for the establishment and delivery of capital projects, regardless of the acquisition method.

Our roles on PPP projects have included the establishment of the PPP business case, management of the tender/transaction, undertaking calculation of the risk adjusted Public Sector Comparator and acting as a strategic risk adviser to government.