Recent engagements.

A national spending platform, taken on red and delivered

OSCAR2 consolidates public spending reporting across more than 500 public bodies and the devolved administrations. We took it on rated red, with the business case approved and nothing standing behind it.

A stalled national procurement, recovered in four months

A Brexit-critical biosecurity procurement had stopped moving against a deadline the department could not renegotiate.

A £900m+ business case across nine government organisations, approved

Nine sets of baseline data, nine finance functions with different definitions of the same cost, and nine executive teams whose interests did not automatically align.

Two London boroughs, and savings that were still there in year two

Two councils, the same problem: a savings target, and a portfolio of individually sound projects that was not collectively going to meet it.

Nineteen thousand staff reorganised, launched on the published date

Programme assurance for a reform of 19,000 staff and community offender management, where a dip in operational performance meant a risk to the public. It won the 2015 Civil Service Award for Programme Delivery Excellence.

A new qualification for a whole profession, approved at every level

A chartered professional and regulatory body replacing an out-of-date qualification and assessment model. Design, outline business case and integrated plan approved by the executive, the board, the regulatory board and the governing council.