In June 2005 West Berkshire Council terminated a £168m Strategic Service-delivery Partnership with Amey plc. The contract, for IT and corporate services, had only completed three of the ten year contract period. Amey plc agreed to pay £3m to the Council as part of the settlement agreement. The document includes the Council resolution and press…

The Research Report identifies the scope of major cost overruns, delays and terminations in 105 outsourced public sector ICT projects in central government, NHS, local authorities, public bodies and agencies in the last decade. There has been wide reporting of individual and department or authority-wide project failures in the national and ICT press but little…

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.

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.

The privatised nuclear power generator, supplying 20% of Britain’s electricity, had to be bailed out by the government to the tune of £410m in 2002 to meet the company’s debts. A restructuring deal was agreed in which the company’s creditors agreed a debt-for-equity swap in which they take control of 97.5% of the shares leaving…

On 26 June 2003 Connex were informed by the Strategic Rail Authority that after seven years of poor performance their rail franchise was being terminated. Connex were given a choice of immediate termination or 6 months notice and chose the latter although they later agreed an early transfer with South Eastern Trains taking over on…