Infrastructure advisory group

Social Infrastructure

We provided comprehensive advice to a flagship national building program. Our work involved:

• Developing the case for tens of billions of government investment over more than 10 years.

• Developing the benefits case, operating model and economic analysis to support the case.

• Commercial support and framework design in relation to procuring main works and delivery partners

• Enhancing performance with custom dashboards for superior data management, focusing on cost, schedule, and risk.

• Managing and reporting on vast amounts of data, providing clear insights through summary reports and detailed analyses to improve decision-making across the project lifecycle

Transport

Industry transformation and new Arm’s Length Body: Re-designing how an industry works together to operate

• Developed an operating model for a new government arm’s length body to deliver transport services in a better way with better relationships to the private sector, including mapping the services that would be provided by the body and other partners in the industry

• Designed in detail the new body’s organisational model and core processes including roles and responsibilities,

• Worked extensively with government funders and existing organisations that would join the new body to ensure buy in on the proposals

Economic Regeneration

KPMG has been on an ambitious capital programme to promote economic development and regeneration. A flagship project in the programme is the redevelopment of an exhibition and conference centre.

We advised a council on the structuring and public issuance of an over £400m index-linked bond, rated by Moody’s, to finance the project. This is the largest index-linked issuance in the capital markets by a UK local authority to date securing finance terms which are not available through conventional PWLB borrowing as well as diversifying its sources of finance.

Investment Centres and Sustainability

KPMG was engaged to help secure freeport status for Freeport partners to deliver their ambitions in offshore wind (floating and fixed-bottom), hydrogen, carbon-capture and alternative fuel sectors. Freeport status helps to deliver a step change in investment to an area by leveraging significant tax and customs relief, as well as seed capital funding.

Science

Programme transformation in science industry: assessing capabilities to target areas of change

• Used capability maturity assessment tool to guide design and implementation of a new target operating model
• Effectively integrated the change within a wider transformation programme
• Provided strategic challenge and advice to improve the programme’s governance arrangements

Water

Our innovative approach supported a Water provider in systematizing data for the PR24 Price Review program. Our achievements include:

• Creating a robust database and model using Power BI, setting the foundation for immediate and long-term strategy for PR24.
• Offering interactive data visualization that empowered stakeholders to focus on critical data for informed decision-making.
• Synthesizing unstructured financial and asset data, we provided a streamlined, clear, and actionable data framework that transformed the planning and execution of key priorities for PR24.