Mott MacDonald has built a strong relationship with the public sector by providing, over a number of years, a quality, value for money service that’s added value for each of our customers.

Here we highlight a brief cross-section of project examples:

1. Guidebook for PFI/PPP Project Directors
Mott MacDonald in collaboration with government organisation '4ps' (Public Private Partnership Programme) has produced a 'Guidebook for PFI/PPP Project Directors'. The guide, published in 2005 presents an overview of the PFI/PPP process, clarifies the pivotal role of the client Project Director, and identifies the key activities and vital success factors that are necessary to implement a successful service delivery. Advice and checklists are provided for all stages of the project from strategic context and business planning, through to procurement, contract award, and eventual service operation. Our market leading experience in PFI in the UK has given us an intimate understanding of all relevant guidance and standards, including OGC guidance, Design Development Protocol and standard 4ps and PfS procurement documentation.

2. LATS management strategy development
The Lead Officer Waste Management (LOWM) group for nine waste disposal authorities in the east of England commissioned Mott MacDonald to develop and co-ordinate a regional partnership approach to landfill diversion in East Anglia in order to avoid LATS penalties. The output of this Defra funded project comprised a position statement with respect to LATS performance and waste infrastructure. It also included a report on the impact of the WEEE Directive, guidance on forming a LATS trading protocol and the publication of the Second Kelly Market data collected from the majority of the English authorities.

3. London Borough of Islington – education partnership
CEA@Islington, our education partnership with the London Borough of Islington, was awarded the contract to run the Borough’s 60 nursery, primary and secondary schools for seven years from April 2000. The partnership has been so successful that Islington Council decided to renew it for a further five years from April 2006 before the contract had expired. Islington is the first local authority in the country to voluntarily renew a contract of this nature. Winning the UK’s top customer service award, the Charter Mark  assessed and awarded by the Cabinet Office  is another indication of customer service excellence. Islington is the only education authority in the country to have been awarded a Charter Mark for its entire service and the award was recently renewed for another three years.

4. Portsmouth City Council highway maintenance PFI
In what was the first application of PFI to infrastructure maintenance anywhere in the world, Mott MacDonald developed a business case for Portsmouth City Council which involved awarding a 25-year concession to a private consortium to upgrade, repair and maintain the 750km road network. The contract reached commercial and financial close in October 2005 and operations started early in 2006. For Portsmouth’s road maintenance PFI we introduced innovative ideas to help measure performance – including applying a performance specification to maintenance works, creating condition indicators to give objective and comparable indices for monitoring and using the Transfer of Functions legislation to reassign duties and risk.

5. Norfolk County Council – household waste recycling centres
Mott MacDonald conducted a review of all 21 household waste recycling centres in Norfolk with the aim of increasing the proportion of material recycled and improving the sites in terms of their user-friendliness, environmental impacts and management. Recommendations were proposed for short, medium and long term development.

6. Portsmouth City Council - Spinnaker Tower
Portsmouth City Council appointed us to project manage construction and transition into operation of the technically challenging Spinnaker Tower which, since it opened to the public, has become an iconic landmark on England’s south coast. The 170m high tower, the tallest accessible building outside London, had to be constructed on a heavily constrained site. This combined with contractual and funding issues had added to the project’s complexity. Testament to the project’s success, it won two prestigious awards in 2006 from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors – the National Award for Best Regeneration Project and Overall Project of the Year.

7. Waste Disposal Authority
On behalf of a large shire county's Waste Disposal Authority, Mott MacDonald has been advising on the procurement of new EfW facilities for the treatment of municipal solid waste. The WDA awarded a long-term PFI contract to a waste management contractor who is delivering new thermal treatment plant as part of a wider strategy for waste management and landfill diversion. The contractor prepared draft tender documents for the procurement of the new EfW facilities and Mott MacDonald's role is to review the documentation, commenting critically on their overall fitness-for-purpose focusing particularly on technical, environmental and contractual matters that might have implications for the WDA as the project progresses through procurement, construction and operation.