Education Building

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Education Building Development Organisation
Group Building Schools for the Future
NowPresenters Karl Limbert Rebecca Spore
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EBDOG Conference 15 May 2008The Kent BSF
Academies Programme challenges solutionsKarl
Limbert, Programme Manager BSF Academies
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Aims Objectives

• The scope of Kents BSF Academies Programme
• Programme Challenges Organisational Financial
• Educational transformation

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BSF in Kent

• 12 District Councils
• All types of school
• 65 of secondary school foundation, trust VA or
  Academy
• Urban, sub-urban, rural settings
• 1.8bn total anticipated capex

• 140 Schools
• 200,000 Learners
• Successive waves 3-15
• 10 projects per wave
• 3 Local Education Partnerships

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Aims Objectives
Prioritised by low educational attainment high
social deprivation
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Local Education Partnership Model
LEP1

• Market Capacity
• Contestability
• Alternative Delivery options
• Changing Requirements
• Maximising Efficiencies

LEP2
LEP3
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Integrated BSF Academies Programme 48 month
high-level view _at_ 05/08
2008
2009
2010
2011
PB
LEP1
W3 12 Schools
SPA
SFC12
W414 Schools
OJEU
OBC
W515 Schools
PB
LEP2
SPA
SFC12
W69 Schools
PB
BatchedAcademy Programmex 5 schools
SPA W7
W7 SFC12
W7- 9 Bid
W7-93x Academies
2x Academies OBCs
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Challenge 1 Programming

• How to deliver 35 schools in line with waves
  3,4,6 timescales?
• Aim for single financial close on all 12 schools
• Challenge standard programme assumptions
• Larger sample size
• Non-sample programme

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Challenge 2 Long - term sustainability

• Is the programme financially sustainable?
• Land sale / capital gap
• PFI / schools DSG
• development costs
• Find optimum blend of PFI / Conventional /
  Academy projects
• Drive development costs down by moving to
  standardisation

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Challenge 3 Extended schools / ECM

• Can BSF deliver the ECM agenda?
• BB98 and the core curriculum
• Joined-up funding
• Avoid the panacea approach

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Challenge 4 Project Development

• How to develop waves of 10 projects in 8-12
  months with quality?
• The vision needs to be in place and embraced
• The school organisation issues had to be
  resolved yesterday!
• Be disruptive (change disruption of existing
  practice)
• Establish a BSF Club
• Introduce agile management at all levels

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Challenge 5 Educational Transformation

• Educational Transformation.. Whats that?
• The problem with abstract nouns.
• Back to the beginning how did we get here?

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Back to the beginning How did we get there?

• The 20th century school is a specific product
  of
• The teacher as Artisan
• The pupil as Subject
• Relationships as asocial / controlling /
  emotionless
• Pedagogy didactic
• The curriculum as one-size fits quite a lot
• The school as Production-line

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Challenge 5 Educational Transformation

• Educational Transformation.. Whats that?
• A less abstract noun? Personalisation.

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Personalisation an emerging consensus?
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Personalisation

• The 21st century school should be a specific
  product of
• Managed Relationships data rich / emotionally
  intelligent / lasting
• Pedagogy constructivist / meta-cognitive
• The curriculum deep (and wide)
• Time non-linear
• Values Explicit and internalised
• Micro design become very important
• School 1 learning venue amongst many others

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Challenge 5 Educational Transformation

• Educational Transformation / Design
• There are is always design its either good or
  bad
• Designing for personalisation

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Designing for personalisation a different
understanding of the learner
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Designing for personalisation a new approach to
design
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Designing for personalisation a new design
vocabulary
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Lessons Learnt

• PRINCE2 necessary but not sufficient
• Think long-term and look at the weakest links in
  the programme
• Get ahead
• Get beneath the rhetoric
• Design for personalisation not for the past
• Enjoy!

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EBDOG Conference 15 May 2008The Procurement
JourneyRebecca Spore, Head of PPP PFI
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Aims Objectives

• Overview of Procurement Process
• Key Challenges

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Competitive Dialogue Procurement Process
Overview
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Overview of LEP1 Wave 3 Pre-Procurement

• LEP 1 total value of over 600 million covering
  33 schools
• Initial procurement of 12 schools with single
  Financial Close (Capital value 200 million)
• 3 PFI schools, 8 DB schools 1 ICT only
• Full ICT Managed Service

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Procurement Process Pre-Procurement Overview

• Extensive Soft Market Testing
• Bidder Days
• Preparation of Bidding Documents
• Finalisation of Reference Design Books
• Business Case approval

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Reference Books and Sample Reference Schemes
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Procurement Process Pre-Procurement Challenges

• Developing market appetite
• Tailoring the proposal following market feedback
• Preparing schools stakeholders for the process
• Developing a procurement strategy to deliver a
  project of such scale

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Procurement Process OJEU, PQQ ITPD Overview

• Issue OJEU notice
• Issue PQQ (Long list of 6 Bidders selected)
• Issue ITPD (Short list of 3 Bidders selected)

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Procurement Process OJEU, PQQ ITPD Challenges

• Testing the breadth and depth of supply chain
• Testing key commercial issues
• Understanding organisation fit and partnering
  behaviours

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Procurement Process ITCD Overview

• Issue ITCD information
• Develop schemes for 5 schools and rest of bid
  material with 3 bidders
• Evaluation of Bids

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Procurement Process ITCD Challenges

• Maintaining a level playing field
• Managing school engagement
• Evaluation process

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Evaluation Team
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Procurement Process ITSFB Overview

• Issue draft ITSFB to two bidders
• Develop detailed proposals
• Announce close of dialogue
• Receive and evaluate bids
• Announce Preferred Bidder

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Procurement Process ITSFB Challenges

• Use ITCD evaluation outcome as focus for dialogue
• Market understanding of competitive dialogue
  detailed needed
• Reaching a solution with both bidders which is
  acceptable to the Council
• Obtaining PfS approval to close dialogue
• Clarification process
• Finalising terms of Preferred Bidder appointment

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Procurement Process Preferred Bidder Stage
Overview

• Obtain planning approval
• Prepare and finalise contractual documentation
• Submission of FBC
• Financial Close
• Construction Start

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Procurement Process Preferred Bidder Stage
Challenges

• Planning critical path
• Next level of design detail ready for
  construction start
• Obtaining final approvals

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Procurement Process Overall Lessons Learnt

• School support and stakeholder management
• Depth of detail required under the competitive
  dialogue regime
• Affordability
• Testing partnership