Our property and infrastructure consultancy, Capita Symonds, has a long track record of successfully delivering a wide variety of projects in the transport sector. It provides services such as highway and tunnel infrastructure design and refurbishment; road user pricing; intelligent transport systems; rail engineering and project management; and transport planning to clients across both the public and private sectors.
The Government recently announced an £8bn investment in the UK rail network – our successful commissions as major supplier to the Crossrail project and our support to the Thameslink scheme, both in London, position us well to seek opportunities to assist with this major infrastructure modernisation programme.
We have formed strategic alliances with many local authorities to help manage their transport requirements through a mixture of contracts, joint ventures and secondment models. We are seeing a healthy flow of opportunities as local authorities respond to increasing fiscal pressures.
Although primarily focused on the UK, Capita Symonds is also acting as Technical Advisers on major transport projects across Europe, as well as being involved in civil engineering projects in India and various parts of Asia and Africa. We will continue to seek appropriate opportunities in these regions in addition to those in our home market.
Drivers for outsourcing
- Opportunities to support the announced £8bn programme of investment in the UK rail network
- Highway maintenance contracts being re-formed within many local authorities and opportunities to forge links with major contractors for a series of these
- Squeeze on public sector spending prompting local authorities to increase managed services in highway maintenance and outsource CCTV monitoring services
- Renewed opportunities to provide multidisciplinary services to private sector clients as they rebuild their businesses in the improving UK economy.