Municipal or government investment programmes
Strategic projects
PPP, Projects & Procurement Advisory
Commercial and financial governance for complex projects—from business case and transaction readiness through procurement and award.
The challenge
Turning financial information into a decision that can be defended.
Complex projects can move into procurement before the commercial model, affordability criteria, approval responsibilities or change-control mechanisms are sufficiently defined. That creates bid ambiguity, cost escalation and avoidable negotiation risk.
ASCENT supports project owners as a commercially focused adviser or client representative, connecting feasibility, financial modelling, procurement documentation and decision governance. Engineering and legal advice remain clearly identified specialist workstreams.
Questions we help answer
01
Is the project sufficiently defined and bankable to procure?
02
Are stakeholder roles and approval gates clear?
03
How should provisional sums, fiscal commitments and changes be controlled?
04
Do tender documents support comparable and defensible bids?
Scope of support
What we do
The exact workplan is agreed after an initial review of the decision, information available and stakeholder requirements.
- Strategic business case and option appraisal
- PPP financial and commercial assessment
- Affordability, bankability and fiscal-commitment analysis
- Procurement strategy and transaction-readiness review
- RFP commercial schedules and evaluation criteria
- Bid evaluation and clarification support
- Client representative and governance coordination
- Change control, provisional-sum and commercial-risk monitoring
Tangible outputs
Typical deliverables
Every engagement is anchored in agreed outputs, ownership and review points.
- Project readiness and gap-assessment report
- Financial model and affordability analysis
- Procurement plan and responsibility matrix
- Commercial RFP schedules and evaluation framework
- Bid evaluation and recommendation report
- Governance, issue and change-control registers
When to involve us
Typical client situations
PPP or concession structures
Projects with multiple approving authorities
Feasibility-to-procurement transition
Owner teams requiring independent commercial support
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