Adviserwatch

The local community of Raploch, a deprived area on the outskirts of Stirling, is part of a Public Private Partnership to regenerate the area. The £150 million project will provide a range of housing to ensure that residents have access to higher quality homes. Advisers at Ernst & Young have been brought in to ensure that all the capital arising from land and property values is retained for the benefit of the scheme and local community.

St Helena, a tiny island in the South Atlantic with just 3,900 inhabitants, will have an airport, after extensive feasibility and business case studies headed by Atkins Management Consultants, but drawn from expertise across its engineering and technology business. Atkins determined that St Helena could sustain a large enough tourist industry to support an airport and the Department for International Development (DfID) agreed to provide air access last year.

The Department for Work and Pensions outsourced its ambitious programme to convert 14 million customer accounts from paper-based forms of benefit payments into electronic payments direct into their bank accounts. Atos Consulting successfully set up and ran the entire conversion process through a specially built “customer-conversion centre” and set up an information line to handle customer inquiries about direct payment. It delivered the project one year early.

Alsbridge, the independent advisers on outsourcing, shared services and offshoring, has been awarded Framework Supplier status for the provision of outsourcing consultancy and advice across the public sector by the UK Office of Government Commerce’s executive agency. Alsbridge has previously been awarded a number of assignments within the public sector, including the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence, the NHS, Metropolitan Police Authority, the Treasury and local authorities.