infrastructure & renewables
Annette Prinsen, Corporate Finance Manager of Heijmans
experts – work closely together. Heijmans has a PPP unit that is responsible for the overall coordination of these activities. Banks such as NIBC play a vital role in making PPP projects financially feasible and managing financial risks. Banks also monitor the delivery of the agreed quality and service in order to ascertain the availability fee to be paid.
Bert van der Els, CEO of Heijmans
In the boat together
“Key to making PPP projects a success is optimising every step of the process – from the initial design phase right through the multi-decade maintenance period,” says Prinsen. “You want the best professionals working together. Then you have the best chance of scoring.” Scoring is the word, because competition for PPP contracts is stiff. And you need stamina even to enter the race: the complex bidding process can take as a long Corporate finance manager Annette Prinsen says PPP as a year. A project is awarded based on a combination offers a great deal of freedom and innovation – to of quality and price. create the project however you think best. “It’s very motivating for people to exchange ideas and think “You must think like an entrepreneur – not just about about everything from whether the f loor should be your own part, but working with each other and seeking wood or carpeted to the best financial constructions the best solution for the entire lifetime of the building,” and maintenance solutions. You have to think about it explains Van der Els. “By cooperating, you have a better as if you would be using the object yourself.” product, better defined costs and better output for a In March 2012, Heijmans received confirmation that the better price. That imposes extraordinary discipline on Government Buildings Agency (Rijksgebouwendienst) all the partners; as does the fact that they have a shared proposed to appoint the company as selected contractor interest in the project’s success. Every element has to be for the Soesterberg Defence Museum PPP Project, for right. You’re tied to each other for decades, so you have which NIBC is one of the potential financiers. Heijmans to collaborate. You’re all in the boat together.” is also bidding to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a new building for the Supreme Court in The Hague, part of the A1/A6 motorway near Amsterdam, and infrastructure in Belgium.
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