Providing cost verification for an infrastructure project
InsightsA client delivering an infrastructure project required cost verification advice as part of its third line of defence.
Delivery of social infrastructure such as, homes, hospitals and leisure facilities with less certainty over funding has never been more difficult. We help you identify and implement innovative financing, funding and delivery mechanisms to unlock delivery.
Demand for social infrastructure has never been higher, but capital budgets are tight, PFI contracts are expiring and grant funding is competitive.
You need to prove value, attract private capital and keep complex programmes moving.
We work with your team across the whole lifecycle shaping strategy, structuring solutions, securing investment, delivering deals and realising benefits. You get practical, commercially honest guidnace from people who have sat on your side of the table.
Our offerings
1. Funding and finance
We identify and secure the right mix of grant, public and private capital for your scheme, and test whether it stacks up. Business cases, funding strategies, financial diligence and valuations.
2. Complex procurements
We design and run the commercial process, from market engagement and options appraisal through to negotiation and contract award, including PPP.
3. Major programmes
We help you deliver, covering programme set-up, governance, delivery assurance, commercial management and benefits realisation on schools, health, housing, leisure and regeneration schemes.
Innovative Financing for Station-Led Growth and Placemaking
Stations can transform places, but the business case rarely stacks up on its own. Our guide shows how public and private capital can be structured together to close funding gaps and get delivery moving.
Steering a schools PFI through expiry for Stoke-on-Trent City Council
This was a really interesting engagement as it was the first handback exercise that we had worked on. Hence it allowed us to deliver a high quality service whilst also expanding our insights and understanding in this space.
Wayne Butcher
Director, Grant Thornton
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