Description

Ian continues with his explanation of Private Public Partnerships (PPP) with a close look at Facilities Management (FM) and maintenance in a PPP project. Ian explains this complex subject by covering the role of FM in the PPP context, definitions, separate soft FM provision, benefits of implementing FM, challenges and constraints, public acceptance, project implementation challenges, developing FM output specifications and standardisation of those specifications.
KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Facilities Management is an integrated approach to operating, maintaining and improving the building and infrastructure of an organisation in order to create an environment that allows an organisation to concentrate on its core business activities.  
• The Facilities Manager has two masters ; the Special Purpose Vehicle or Project Company and the customer/user, the authority that the PPP is being delivered to.  
• Hard FM, (the maintenance of the building) is invariably the private sector's responsibility in PPP. Soft FM, (functions and services) are often less included due to the changing nature and requirements that alter the cost and value for money for the user. However, separating soft services from the PPP contract is problematic.
• FM should be included in the design stages of the facility to preserve the whole life cycle considerations and maintain the integrity of future operations in the structure of the facility. 
• Too numerous Key Performance Indicators in a contract can create unnecessary costs and disputes rather than reduce them and should concentrate on outputs only.  

BEST MOMENTS
‘The role of the Facilities Manager is to create an optimal, safe and cost effective environment, to deliver effective and responsive services, enable changes in the use of space and anticipate future asset needs. They need to ensure that the facility is compliant with all relevant codes and regulations.’
‘PPP’s were introduced with the aim of delivering high quality and well maintained assets that provide value for money, as opposed to the traditional public sector route of just being able to procure the construction of a building and then not being able to afford to maintain it.’
‘Benefits of having soft FM services within the PPP contract include giving the contracting authority one point of contact for all services, reducing interface risk and minimising constraints that may restrict the private sector's design freedom and innovation.’
‘In my opinion, having all the FM within the PPP is vitally important.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
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ABOUT THE HOST
Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years’ industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given Ian a unique whole life approach to any project by considering the end game at the beginning.
CONTACT METHOD
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