Commercial

Advising FirstGroup plc on various major projects in the transport sector, including franchise bids and rolling stock procurement projects, since privatisation in 1996.

Advising the Home Office on its procurement of a replacement service to support the Independent Safeguarding Authority and Criminal Records Bureau for Disclosure and Barring Services. The competition was run as a pilot to introduce the Cabinet Office's "Lean Procurement" initiative and is regarded by the Government as a 'pathfinder' project for future Whitehall procurements.

Advising Mitie Group plc on its contract with Rolls Royce PLC to provide an outsourced total facilities management service to Rolls Royce sites across the EMEA region.

Advising Ministry of Defence and the Department for Transport on the £6 billion search and rescue helicopter PFI, the first MOD/DFT competitive dialogue process. Now advising MOD on the competition for application to the Falkland Islands.

Advising Babcock Airports on the completion of a new framework agreement to operate and maintain the baggage handling systems at Heathrow, as well as on the sub-contracting of software services.

Advising the Department for Education on the creation of an independent child protection company, the first of its kind.

Advising RAC on its appointment of BGL Group to provide RAC-branded car insurance in a five year deal with a value of £800 million Gross Written Premiums.

Advising Nationwide Building Society on the contractual documentation for its business critical credit card processing system and provision of related services.

Advising DiSCS, a joint venture between Babcock Land Limited and DHL Supply Chain Limited, on all aspects of its bid to act as the service provider under the Ministry of Defence's Logistic Commodities & Services (LCS) Transformation Project.