Feature 7
As a result, in July 2006, the Ministry with industry partners of project costs, on project delivery, re-emphasising the
disengaged from the Swan Hunter contract delivery plans, assumptions, risks, and importance of the MoD and its commercial
and transferred design authority and lead opportunities partners routinely adopting such practices
yard services to BAE Systems. The second
•
Given that project personnel will change if they are to consistently deliver successful
Swan Hunter ship, Lyme Bay, was towed to during the life of the project, maintain a project outcomes.
the BAE Systems Govan yard for completion, comprehensive project history detailing The ‘Gold Standard’ work examines
and the Ministry of Defence settled the Swan the rationale underpinning key decisions practical evidence of how well factors
Hunter contract for a further £32 million.
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That historic trend analysis can provide affecting the successful delivery of projects
Lyme Bay began sea trials on 15 June an important ‘sanity check’ on the realism are being managed by the Ministry of
2007, and was judged to have achieved of time and cost estimates Defence and what can be learned from
delivery standard on 27 June – nine weeks successful Ministry of Defence projects and
ahead of contract. The ship was handed over The NAO adds that these factors are those from commercial organisations and
on 2 August 2007, and accepted into service consistent with its ‘Gold Standard’ work overseas defence ministries. WT
(following formal transfer of operational
command to the Fleet) on 26 November
last year.
The NAO says that the Ministry of
Defence ‘deserves credit for successfully
delivering the vessels into service’, given the
earlier trauma. For their part, the Ministry
and BAE Systems have jointly completed
a case study on the LSD (A) experience
to demonstrate the benefits of closer and
more effective working relationships, and
the embodiment of commercial partnering
principles.
Notwithstanding the significant schedule
slippage, one aspect of the LSD (A)
procurement highlighted by the NAO was
the lack of realism in the Ministry over the
likely cost of the four-ship programme. It
commissioned HVR Consultants to produce
a cost estimating model for the procurement
(reflecting the two yard strategy), this
concluding that the contracted cost of the
project, at £596 million, fitted within the
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