Major procurement activities are an important part of programme management. The scope, scale and nature of such programmes mean that timescales are often protracted. Those tasked with managing these programmes must apply a wider range of skills and knowledge in order to identify, control and influence the many stakeholders and drivers to achieve successful delivery.
Managing Major Procurement Projects provides tools, techniques needed to identify, influence and manage stakeholders. The authors examine typical programmes that have significant development costs, build costs and through life operating and disposal costs. The authors take an in-depth look at business case solutions, funding models and risk management, for example. programmes are often approved without a realistic estimate of the risk involved. This also means that mitigation is not prepared in advance and the impact of things going wrong is magnified. This impacts on the delivery of benefits which are often delayed and reduced in scale. The author uses supporting case studies of major international projects throughout the text.