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Participation, barriers, and opportunities in PFI: the United Kingdom experience

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posted on 2009-02-13, 14:00 authored by Patricia CarrilloPatricia Carrillo, Herbert S. Robinson, Peter Foale, Chimay J. Anumba, Dino Bouchlaghem
Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects play an increasingly important role for both the UK government and the construction sector. It is still a relatively new form of procurement that requires a wide range of specialist advice during the bidding stage and in-depth knowledge of how the facility will perform in the long term. This paper investigates the level of participation in PFI projects in the UK, the opportunities available for the construction sector, the types of problems experienced and the challenges for the future. It achieves this by analyzing the results of a questionnaire survey of a large number of client and construction organizations. The study finds that there is a wide gap in the level of PFI experience between client and construction organizations, affordability of PFI projects and high bidding costs are key issues for client and construction organizations respectively and, given the nature of PFI projects, there is considerable scope for knowledge transfer both during the project and between different PFI projects.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Citation

CARRILLO. P.M. ... et al, 2008. Participation, barriers, and opportunities in PFI: the United Kingdom experience. Journal of Management in Engineering, 24 (3), pp. 138-145

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© ASCE

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2008

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This article was published in the Journal of Management in Engineering [© ASCE]. The definitive version is available at: http://cedb.asce.org/cgi/WWWdisplay.cgi?0805518

ISSN

0742-597X

Language

  • en

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