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Transport and infrastructure impact lives daily. As providers in this sector, you need solutions that deliver value to transport users and taxpayers and help drive local and national economies.

Delivering a successful transport or infrastructure project requires you to balance a complex set of strategic, economic, financial, environmental and technical issues – often with limited funding, long lead times and incomplete information. Our highly experienced transport and infrastructure advisory team will help you navigate the challenges and give you the confidence to make your next move.

Deep practical experience

We’ve advised on many of the UK’s highest-profile transport and infrastructure projects, bringing practical advice and enhancing value.

Multidisciplinary expertise

Our experts have backgrounds in finance, engineering, data analytics, accounting, modelling, programme management, assurance, governance, controls, and economics.

Innovative thinking

We'll work with you to address complex challenges – applying practical experience, deep knowledge and fresh creative thinking to our solutions.

Why Grant Thornton

We genuinely care about your business and take the time to listen and understand your needs and challenges so that we can carefully shape our advice to support you. We are friendly, knowledgeable and agile in our approach, as you’d expect. Our clients value how we break down complex challenges into clear and understandable solutions. Above all, they appreciate that we can work in a seamlessly integrated way, often across multiple teams, to help you make decisions and take action.

Driving bus franchising forwards in the North West

The challenge

Bus franchising is a key part of LCRCA’s wider vision for a fully integrated, London-style public transport system that’s quicker, simpler, and more affordable.

The solution

The critical support we provided to the authority included documentation for franchise procurement, including review of initial bidder documents, and fleet procurement: an initial c.220 vehicles, and further procurement of c. 400 vehicles.

The result

The first phase of the franchise operator procurement has been successfully completed, and we also supported other workstreams to develop their own processes.