Helping clients and contractors deliver whole-life and sustainable solutions

We provide specialist consultancy services to clients procuring long-term contracts including privately financed highway projects. We also work as part of contracting consortia tendering or operating these projects through all project lifecycle stages. Over more than 15 years we have worked on private finance (PFI/PPP/DBFO) projects in this sector and offer an unrivalled modelling capability to suit these situations.

Our clients typically draw upon us:

• To provide strategic and specialist asset management and procurement advice, set up and manage data room systems, and procure asset data surveys, acting as client’s Technical Advisor
• To support tendering consortia with highway asset management, data and systems, asset engineering solutions, sustainability, and biodiversity and environment services from our specialised expertise. Also an awareness of industry best practice, risk and cost issues
• To provide additional resources to supplement client, and consortia tendering and operational teams, working in partnership for specific projects
  To build bespoke lifecycle models to support client business cases or bidding consortia’s tenders.

What CBC can offer

In the context of highway PFI/PPP/DBFO projects we have provided a broad range of services and products, including:

• Project and programme management: including Business Cases, research and technical modelling for clients such as DfT, Highways Agency and local Authorities
• Asset Management Plan development: assisting local authorities in all stages of the development of HAMP/TAMPs
• Local authority highway asset valuations: (following CIPFA guidance where applicable)
• Service Level Development: in consultation with stakeholders, and the development of models for reporting, monitoring and the management of improvements
• Value Management and Option Appraisal: developing and facilitating value management and option appraisal processes for highway assets
• Highway Maintenance Plans: assistance in the production of Highway Maintenance Plans and other operational management documents
• Performance Reviews: undertaking performance reviews and developing improvement plans, including the provision of advice and action plans to bring about improvements in national and local performance indicators
• Local Area Agreements: Helping develop local area agreements
• Gap Analyses: carrying out gap analyses in relation to national Codes of Practice and other best practice documents (e.g. Data Management for Road Administrations: A Best Practice Guide).
• Business Process reviews: specifically related to the delivery of services for roads, and the development of improvement plans
• Training and Workshops: facilitation and delivery, including for practitioners, managers, elected members and service users
• Strategic Reviews: and the development of policy and strategies
• Public Consultations: organisation and facilitation, for local authorities to support the definition of appropriate service standards
• Procurement Advice: including contract and payment mechanisms particularly in relation to innovative forms of procurement such as PPP and PFI
• Risk Management: advice and assistance with the production of risk management plans

For more information please contact:

Chris Britton BSc CEng MICE FCIHT at our Godalming Office
Email: chris.britton@chrisbritton.co.uk