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Appendix E: Interview schedule Project management and PFI Office use This interview is part of research commissioned by the RICS into the way Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects are managed. The interview is designed to explore your involvement and role in managing PFI projects and your perception of the way project management is undertaken by public and private sector organisations. The research is particularly concerned with understanding how management arrangements aid or hinder PFI and whether project managers need additional skills. Your employment 1. In what capacity are you currently employed in relation to PFI work? • In-house project manager or project sponsor in the public sector • Client consultant to public sector project sponsors • Supply side consultant to SPV / contractor / funder • Other Project management and PFI experience 2. Please briefly outline your background and experience in relation to managing projects • not just PFI • any other large privately financed infrastructure projects • years experience • qualifications • types of project / organisations 3. What PFI projects have you been involved with to date? • since when • nature of projects • value • the parties to the SPV 4. What stages of the PFI project(s) have you been involved with so far? • inception • bid • construction • operation 41 chapter seven Appendices Project management and the private finance initiative Interviewee name __________________________________________________ Organisation ______________________________________________________ Interview scheme Date of interview __________________________________________________ Tape ____________________________________________________________
The project manager role and PFI 5. With the PFI project(s) has a project manager been appointed to oversee the project from inception to hand over, or are other managers brought into the project? • at what stage? • for what reasons • by whom? 6. What in your view are the benefits or drawbacks to this arrangement? 7. From your experience, what are the similarities or differences in project management appointments by the PFI parties, that is the public sector client, the private sector supplier and the funding provider? • in-house project manger appointments v external consultants • stages project managers involved in • level of decision making / freedom to act • access / relationship to other advisors 8. How much influence does the fund representative have on the management of the PFI project(s)? • how does influence manifest itself? Project manager skills and PFI 9. Would you say there are differences in the skills brought to the PFI project(s) by project managers acting for the public sector client and private sector supplier? • technical knowledge • process skills • risk appreciation • ‘political’ skills • understanding the client 10. Would you say there are any project management skills in particular short supply, in the public or private sector in relation to PFI projects? • which • any suggestions why Responsibility for PFI projects 11. Who in your view who is driving forward the PFI project(s)? • the public sector client / his PM? • the private sector supplier / his PM? 12. Has the initiative for driving forward the PFI project(s) shifted at all? • when • how • why Project management and the private finance initiative chapter seven Appendices 42
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