Mott MacDonald’s business covers government, defence, education management, energy, healthcare management, industry, property, telecommunications, transport and utilities. They contribute to good management practice in numerous projects and businesses by transferring skills and methodologies across many sectors.
Their management consultants work globally with their customers to help sustain and improve their business performance through strategic and business planning, business improvement, resource investment planning and change management.
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Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) programmeMott MacDonald (MM) has been working with Carmarthenshire County Council (the Council) on its Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) programme since the Council decided to retain its housing stock in 2005. Initially MM was asked by the Council, using the design framework agreement which was in place between MM and the Council, to support and assist...

Border and Immigration Agency, Enforcement & Compliance BlueprintThe Blueprint workstream was set up as part of BIA’s Transforming Enforcement and Compliance (E&C) improvement programme. The Blueprint for E&C was intended to pull together existing improvement activity and provide a picture of how E&C might look in the future. It supported BIA’s Strategic Objective to ensure and enforce compliance with...

HMRC KAI TransformationThe Knowledge, Analysis and Intelligence (KAI) corporate function in HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) provides analysis and information services to support a range of requirements in HMRC and HM Treasury (HMT). There are about 600 people in KAI, based in six locations. Around 330 of KAI’s people are professional analysts: statisticians, operational...

FSTAThis commission is for the procurement of Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) to provide Air-to-Air Refuelling and Air Transport for the RAF over a 27-year PFI Concession. Under the PFI arrangement, the RAF will use the Airbus A330-200 tanker transport aircraft when required, but the through-life risks of ownership will lie with the AirTanker...

Leeds Teaching HospitalsLeeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is one of the busiest Trusts in the UK containing the largest teaching hospital in Europe. Each year the Trust allocates an annual budget for capital schemes across the Trust’s various hospital sites. MML project managed the delivery of buildings and infrastructure capital projects on behalf of the Trust’s...

Investment Strategy for Northern IrelandMott MacDonald was retained by the Strategic Investment Board (SIB) to assist in the preparation of a ten-year, £16 billion, Investment Strategy for Northern Ireland (ISNI). The purpose of this ground-breaking strategy is to address the legacy of under-provision of infrastructure assets in Northern Ireland and to ensure that available resources...

Scottish Water OPA Process ImprovementScottish Water are currently going through their strategic planning process for the regulatory period 2010 to 2014. A key aspect of that process is understanding how the organisation will improve its regulated performance from its current score of around 250 points to one of 394 points which will put it into the upper quartile of water companies.

Procurement of Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA)This commission is for the procurement of Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) to provide Air-to-Air Refuelling and Air Transport for the RAF over a 27-year PFI Concession. Under the PFI arrangement, the RAF will use the Airbus A330-200 tanker transport aircraft when required, but the through-life risks of ownership will lie with the AirTanker consortium....

School servicesThe contract for providing the full range of schools' services (professional as well as back-office) for the London Borough of Islington is a flagship programme, not only for Mott MacDonald but also for the Department of Education and Skills which required this compulsory outsourcing back in 2000. Over the next few years through the use of BPR, Islington...

Office of Government CommerceIn November 2003 Sir Christopher Kelly produced a report aimed at improving long term capacity planning and competition in markets in which the government has significant purchasing power – subsequently known as the “Kelly” report. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) was identified as the leading change agent responsible for leading...

HM TreasuryAs part of an exercise to revise the Green Book, HM Treasury commissioned Mott MacDonald to perform a study of large public procurement in the UK. The aim was to provide the public sector with appropriate guidance on “optimism bias” to be applied to future projects at project appraisal stage.
Optimism bias (sometimes referred to as the...

Strategic Investment BoardMott MacDonald was retained by the Strategic Investment Board (SIB) to assist in the preparation of a ten-year, £16 billion, Investment Strategy for Northern Ireland (ISNI). The purpose of this ground-breaking strategy is to address the legacy of under-provision of infrastructure assets in Northern Ireland and to ensure that available resources...

The IMPACT programmeThe IMPACT programme (Information, Management, Analysis, Coordination, and Tasking) was initiated following the inquiry by the former Whitehall permanent secretary Sir Michael Bichard into the murders of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 and the failures it highlighted in police information sharing and intelligence. The Bichard...

At the request of HM Fire Service Inspectorate for Scotland, Mott MacDonald undertook a review of fire service control room arrangements in Scotland. The study reviewed current fire service arrangements and the likely impact of any changes in the operational environment that necessitate change in the technology and organisational arrangements of control...

Transport for London (TfL) Street Management Directorate appointed Mott MacDonald to undertake a Business Process Review (BPR) to help facilitate the organisational change and development of the new Highways maintenance, operations and schemes contracts.

Organisational development4ps (public, private, partnerships, programme) appointed Mott MacDonald to assist them with their organisational development by means of developing an advice guide for Project Directors and Project Sponsors within all Local Authorities within the UK, who are considering strategic procurement under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI), Public Private...

The Environment AgencyMott MacDonald has supported the Environment Agency (EA) for the last thirteen years in its duty to monitor the operational practices at over 300 waste transfer and disposal sites in Greater London and the Home Counties. Their role involves working at strategic organisational and HR development, risk management, ICT systems and operational levels;...

Leeds Teaching HospitalsLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust required the provision of a new oncology wing to deliver a high value service in the north of England. To meet this organisational development requirement Mott MacDonald was commissioned to manage a large framework of PFI procurements from the Strategic Outline Case to the Full Business Case, through all stages of...

Mersey Care NHS Trust is undertaking the largest UK PFI scheme in mental health to date involving a £171million PFI procurement project for five new mental health care community based Resource Centres. The purpose of the project is to transform the quality of care, service model and configuration of services for people with mental health problems...

London Borough of IslingtonThe contract for providing the full range of schools' services (professional as well as back-office) for the London Borough of Islington is a flagship programme, not only for Mott MacDonald but also for the Department of Education and Skills which required this compulsory outsourcing back in 2000. When Mott MacDonald assumed the organisational development...

The client wished to develop a robust Quality Assurance system that would improve the company’s performance management arrangements and fulfil the requirements of the Adult Learning Inspectorate.

Mott MacDonald (through their specialist project management consultancy OMM) was appointed to act for the London Stock Exchange in their search for new premises and the subsequent relocation to a new office building.