Almost six months ago The MJ covered the conclusions from a round table held at the House of Lords to discuss a new concept in public private partnerships called ‘relational partnering.’ Earlier this month, participants joined a seminar at the Institute of Directors to discuss progress, as Michael Burton reports
While the public sector is tied up in the knots of the procurement process, a group of local authorities have concluded there is a different way of working with the private sector.
Their projects are property-based, their public private partnership (PPP) relationships flexible and reliant on good working relationships rather than the minutiae of contract documentation, and through partnership they also have access to funding.
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