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NEPTUNE PFI RUTHIN LIMITED have appointed Monteith Steen to manage their Ruthin project.

The project provides accommodation for up to 300 office staff, with facilities for Elected Members and houses the Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths. The scheme also accommodates voluntary bodies, such as the Citizens Advice Bureaux, from their previous location at the old Ruthin Town Hall complex. The Monteith Steen role involves managing the SPV in the delivery of its obligations to provide services to Denbighshire County Council, the shareholders and funders. The initial appointment is for 3 years.

Monteith Steen have been appointed to update the business case for the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s prestigious new city centre headquarters building in central Belfast. The original full business case was developed by Monteith Steen to support an application for funding under stringent Green Book requirements. Monteith Steen acted as project manager in the procurement of the new facility under a design and build contract. Having developed the original risk matrix with over 200 defined risks, the construction project, now nearing completion of phase 1, remains on programme and on budget

Monteith Steen's role in the procurement of the PSNI’s £17m new DCU has been extended to take over the co-ordination, project management and  compilation of the output based technical specification for this city centre PPP project.

The Department of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland has appointed Monteith Steen to develop an Estates Services Strategy for the current facilities with a view to procuring services for their expanding property portfolio.  The project involves putting in place short term measures for maintenance of their new state of the art headquarters building at Belfast Chambers, and the long term services solution for complete facilities Management.  The project also includes the production of contract documentation and project management of any subsequent tender competition for the 23 services involved.

Following on from previous successful projects, Monteith Steen has be engaged to map out the 4 year change management process for moving an entire division of a substantial corporate IT organisation to new facilities yet to be built on a greenfield site.  The project considers all appropriate corporate approvals, staff consultation, statutory approvals, building design and construction and the installation and migration of the corporate IT and communications systems, including relocation of the workforce.

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Monteith Steen have been successful in being awarded the contract for the development of an options appraisal for development of 12,000m2 of new office accommodation for a Northern Ireland Office Agency.

Following on from the successful outcome of the Best Value Review undertaken in January of 2002, Monteith Steen has been appointed as Project Manager for the preparation of Contract Documents and running of the Tender for the Building Management of the entire 303,860m2 PSNI estate.

Monteith Steen has been appointed to undertake a feasibility study for the relocation of an IT an Communications department large corporate body.  The project involved the investigation of highly specialist communications migration, the appraisal of new build sites and disposal of old property, and the softer business and personnel issues.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has appointed Monteith Steen to provide Tender Strategy & Contract documentation for a Dilapidation (Condition)  Survey of their entire estate of some 303,860m2.

Monteith Steen has been appointed to analyse building services delivery at the Northern Ireland Assembly, undertake an options appraisal for future development of services, and develop contract documentation leading the client team through recognition of their Strategic Objectives, Critical Success Factors leading to production of Key Performance Indicators.

Monteith Steen has been awarded a Public Sector Contract to establish the outline business case for rationalisation of estates requiring process analysis, and options appraisal to enabling the client to deliver the services required by the customer in a more efficient and focussed manner.

Monteith Steen advises PPP Client £800,000 in disputed invoice case. Alan Steen has provided Technical and Commercial advice to prove the validity of SPV invoices. During the compilation of the case, Alan reviewed the 18 documents within the Agreement to provide fast-track flowcharts depicting the main structure and procedures contained in the contract documents.

The dispute had been going on for several months, and within 5 weeks we had cleared it up."
Quest Consulting have now been appointed to look at a further 4 contractually interesting projects.

The Equality Commission have appointed Quest Consulting to outsource the Facilities Management Services to their city centre headquarters. The outsourced service are to include:

• Building Services Maintenance
• Handyman Services
• Cleaning (internal & External)
• Catering
• Full conference room management
• Health & Safety advice
• Security

Following on from successful completion of investment and property related projects, Monteith Steen has been appointed to project manage the change of use of a major facility for the Estates Services Business Unit of the police in NI. The project which is likely to last up to 4 years is due to start in late May.

HBG Projects has appretained Monteith Steen to provide contractual advice and project management services for their PFI infrastructure Unit. The appointment follows successful completion of a number of projects throughout 2001. Initially this term project will focus on diligence and contractual advice.

Following on from the Borders Primary Care NHS Trust PFI project at Hawick, the contract  has been extended for Monteith Steen to act as project manager through to completion of the procurement.