http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/ Archive of materials available on outsourcing and CCT. en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit 2004-03-17T11:31:34Z European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. Alex Nunn CCT, procurement, commissioning, contestability, offshoring, outsourcing, marketisation, client, contractors, purchaser, provider, private contractor, public private partnerships, private finance, shared services, PPP, PFI, affordability, refinancing, democratic accountability, risk, public sector, reconfiguring services, public services, best value, privatisation, value for money, public investment, procurement, facilities management, in-house services, two-tier workforce, public assets, corporate welfare, public goods, transaction costs, public sector comparator, private finance initiative, options appraisal, secondary market, 2001-04-13T12:00Z 1 daily http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/economic-impact-of-prisons-in-rural-areas-a-re/ The South Australian State Government is proposing five PPPs for the future development of the State’s correctional facilities by moving men’s and women’s prisons, a youth training centre and a pre-release centre to Murray Bridge. The Public Service Association commissioned the Australian Institute for Social Research (AISR), University of Adelaide, to identify the indirect and/or hidden social/economic costs associated with the relocations. The European Services Strategy Unit literature review focuses on the economic, social and employment impact of locating prisons in rural areas, drawing particularly on US evidence. In October 2008 the South Australian State Government announced that funding for the new prisons will delayed until 2013-14 because of the current economic climate. A preliminary analysis of direct and indirect costs associated with the relocation of prison facilities to the Murray Bridge district by AISR is available at www.cpsu.asn.au/~sa/webnews/Final_Report_30_10_08.pdf Dexter Whitfield 2008-12-08T10:23:38Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Prisons, impact assessment, South Australia, rural impact, economic impact, social impact, relocation, PPP, public private partnership, private prisons, rural communities, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/procurement-and-commissioning-best-practice/future-shape-of-the-council-the-flaws-in-barne/ A review of the London Borough of Barnet Council’s commissioning and procurement policies. The Future Shape of the Council project is likely to consider large-scale outsourcing/privatisation to ‘shrink the council’, yet there are serious failings and shortcomings in procurement which make its policies and practice ‘not fit for purpose’. This could expose the Council to serious financial and service risks. The report is published by UNISON, GMB, NUT and NASUWT and makes a series of recommendations on commissioning and procurement, employment options and contract management and monitoring. Dexter Whitfield 2008-12-04T11:12:38Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit procurement, commissioning, outsourcing, marketisation, employment options, TUPE Plus, privatisation, strategic council, public management, contract culture, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/contract-and-privatisation-failures/flawed-failed-abandoned-100-p3s-canadian-and-i/ By Natalie Mehra, Ontario Health Coalition, with research and support from: BC Health Coalition, Canadian Health Coalition, Council of Canadians, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Friends of Medicare/Alberta and National Union of Public and General Employees. March 2005. Analysis of 100 failed projects. Dexter Whitfield 2008-11-16T10:05:48Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit contract failures, terminations, privatisation, public private partnerships http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/contract-and-privatisation-failures/37-failed-privatisation-projects-in-water-supp/ A global list of failed privatisation projects in water supply and sanitation by country, date started and ended, companies, reason for failure and outcomes such as renationalisation. From Water: Private, Limited: Issues in Privatisation, Corporatisation and Commercialisation of Water Sector in India, 2007, by Gaurav Dwivedi, Rehmat and Shripad Dharmadhikary. Dexter Whitfield 2008-11-16T09:57:10Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit water privatisation, contract failures, renationalisation, PPP, public private partnerships, sanitation privatisation, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/contract-and-privatisation-failures/247-cancelled-and-distressed-ppp-and-privatisa/ World Bank Private Participation in Infrastructure Database: Two tables providing sector and regional analysis by value and number of projects of 247 cancelled and distressed PPP and Privatisation projects in developing countries between 1990-2007. Dexter Whitfield 2008-11-16T09:53:09Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit contract failures, developing countries, privatisation, PPP, public private partnerships, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/contract-and-privatisation-failures/overview-of-leisure-trust-performance/ This section compares the performance of leisure trusts with local authority directly provided sport and leisure services between 2000-06. Dexter Whitfield 2008-11-15T16:10:13Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit leisure trusts, contract failure, privatisation http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/contract-and-privatisation-failures/scope-of-strategic-partnership-reduced-by-swan/ The City Council signed a £83m contract with CapGemini in 2006 to transform IT services and promising £70m savings over ten years. However, a year later the contract was reduced to a £40m project with the abandonment of phase 2. Dexter Whitfield 2008-11-15T16:04:25Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit SSP, PPP, contract failure, Capgemini, strategic partnership, privatisation, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/contract-and-privatisation-failures/strategic-partnership-significantly-reduced-by/ Following a 'strategic review of services' HR and Payroll, Finance and Accounting, ICT, Public Access and Business support will be brought back in-house by September 2006 after only 3 years of the 10 year Liberata contract. Only 120 of 650 staff will be retained by company to continue to provide Council Tax, Revenues, Housing Benefits and Consumer Direct (Government business). Dexter Whitfield 2008-11-15T15:59:52Z en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit PPP, SSP, strategic partnership, privatisation, contract failure, Liberata,