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Alistair Darling’s first Budget heralded a new dawn of PPPs, with more flexible models and international accounting standards. So is PFI being slowly elbowed out, asks Amanda Nicholls. Read more...

Hailed as a “gleaming” example of best practice PFI, the MoD’s main building project is about to face its toughest challenge yet. Read more...

Steve Nicholson, director of the Mersey Gateway project, describes how the PFI is shaping up to be more than just a bridge. Read more...

Iain MacDonald and Victoria Whitehead from Lloyds TSB Coporate Markets describe how the complex FPMS deal tested the financiers. Read more...

Chris Fountain from GSL describes why having the service delivery company as equity investor can focus a project’s long term delivery. Read more...

Using causal mapping to capture risks and relate these to the project objectives can save your shirt, says Davis Langdon’s Richard Newey and Adam Trigg Read more...

Have PFI funding competitions meant a better deal for taxpayers, asks Derek Anderson from Bank of Scotland Corporate Read more...

Former director of the PPP Forum Lindsay Grist describes how Building Schools for Future bidding teams can learn from politicians Read more...

Is LiftCo inertia affecting progress, asks Shadbolt & Co’s Andrew Walsh and Grant Thornton’s Bob Anderson Read more...

How to curb the costs of using competitive dialogue for BSF projects, by Oliver Carruthers from Norton Rose Read more...

Trudi Craggs from Dundas & Wilson asks, can we learn from Edinburgh’s different approach to light rail PFI? Read more...

Eversheds’s Tim Costello looks at whether PFI has a part in helping to fulfil the ambitious housing targets Read more...

Rhona Harper from Shepherd and Webberburn looks at the uncertain future for PFI prisons in the UK and Ireland Read more...

Luis Willumsen and Charles Russell from Steer Davies Gleave put forward the case for congestion charging Read more...

Jane Staveley at Hammonds examines how the NHS found a solution to its staff accommodation shortage Read more...

Bidders are having to get to grips with a very different animal in housing PFIs, says Regenter’s Steve Trueman Read more...

North Tyneside’s sheltered housing PFI project is setting best practice across the UK. Roy Marston explains how Read more...

Jonathan Manley discusses the impact of Metronet’s recent PPP administration order on its credit quality Read more...

Peter Kirkham from DC Leisure asks, what part does PFI play in updating the UK’s ageing leisure infrastructure? Read more...

PUK’s David Kent highlights the Operational Taskforce’s central role in strengthening long-term partnerships Read more...