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ETI-15

Qualified Project Management

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry · Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Report · Issued 19 September 2023 · Addressed to: City of Edinburgh Council

Government responseCity of Edinburgh Council: Accepted (Dec 2023)

DeliveryNo statement from City of Edinburgh Council found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation, Chapter 25 Recommendation 15 (paragraph 25.227)

In recognition of the various difficulties likely to be experienced in the design and construction of a light rail project through a city centre, the promoter and owner of the project should appoint as its procurement and project manager a company with suitably qualified and experienced permanent employees that has delivered a similar project successfully on time and within budget or can demonstrate that it will be able to do so.

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry, Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Report · 19 Sep 2023 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

In December 2023, Andrew Kerr, Chief Executive of the City of Edinburgh Council, recommended that it adopt the recommendation, noting that the inquiry report highlighted insufficient delivery experience to assure proper management (Andrew Kerr response, Dec 2023). He stated that procurement and project management is "key to success" and that demonstrable experience should be secured as part of light rail delivery (Andrew Kerr response, Dec 2023). The record holds no update since the Council's response of December 2023 (Andrew Kerr response, Dec 2023).

Sources

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Government response

●City of Edinburgh Council · Accepted · 14 Dec 2023

Words of: Andrew Kerr, Chief Executive, City of Edinburgh Council, report "Response to the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry" to the Council, 14 December 2023 (item 7.1)

The Inquiry Report highlights a number of instances where there was insufficient experience in delivery to give assurance that the project would be properly managed. The procurement and project management of a project is key to success and demonstrable experience should be secured as part of light rail delivery.

It is recommended that the Council should adopt this Recommendation.

Response document: Response to the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry (item 7.1)

Site note: This passage is from the Chief Executive's report to the City of Edinburgh Council meeting of 14 December 2023. That day the Council agreed "to implement the actions as outlined in appendix one and appendix three" of the report (minute, item 7). The same words were in the report to the Transport and Environment Committee of 16 November 2023.

Delivery

No statement on delivery from City of Edinburgh Council has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

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