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Description
From the HM Treasury Better Business Case - Foundation training we have offered over the past months, we identified an opportunity to build commercial case understanding and confidence, especially where Towns are looking to a private / voluntary sector partner to bring the full range of design, build, finance, operate and maintain (DBFOM) services.
DBFOM arrangements are referenced in the Better Business Case - Foundation training. The value for money challenge is to prove that the higher costs of private / voluntary sector financing is more than offset by the value brought by the private / voluntary sector partner in relation to bearing risk, bring innovation, integrating the DBFOM activities, and bringing due diligence and project delivery controls.
This workshop will focus on the use of various contract models / partnership approaches. Our team have been drafting guidance on these issues, which will be available to the wider Towns Fund team on the 24 November. Alongside the guidance will also be one-hour workshops on contact models / partnerships approach.
The workshop will be an interactive event and we are planning for circa 50 attendees, to potentially include some of the investor community stakeholders already involved in other attracting investment events.
About the speaker
Mark Williams has now trained circa 80 managers from the 101 Towns participating in the Towns Fund as well as the central DLUHC team in HM Treasury’s Better Business Case – Foundation course, allowing them to go on to take the accreditation should they choose to. During this training we have identified the commercial case gap above, which the guidance and the workshop on the 24 November will support.
Meanwhile, outside of the Towns Fund, Mark has trained over 1,000 public servants in the HMT BBC course, but also 200 public servants in the parallel Certified Public Private Partners (CP3P) guidance and course, which provides a strong foundation in DBFOM arrangements.
Mark has worked on numerous PPP / DBFOM and wider Commercial Models and Private / Alternate Investment / Financing projects over the last 25 years. He will draw on the published guidance and combine it with the practical lessons learnt to support towns with the next, potentially most complex aspect of their Towns Fund programme of projects.