Agenda

Day One: Wednesday 24th March

| Day One | Day Two |

8:30

Registration and welcome coffee

9:00

Opening remark from Chair

Jenny Richter, Executive Director, Plenary Group

9:10

Setting stage for a successful PPP

9:50

Why PPP?

Understanding the nature of national supply and current and future demand
Benchmarking the public sector undertaking to evaluate the business case
Drivers for PPP in healthcare – risk, costing, innovation and asset utilisation

10:30

Morning tea

10:50

Putting together PPP hospital design briefs: lessons learn from the UK and Australia.

Getting the output/input balance right
How to focus in on key requirements and communicate them
Bringing the Request of Proposal documents together

11:30

Optimising the bidding process for effective procurement

Key elements that a client must have planned and in place prior to seeking bids
The considerations and pitfalls for project and bid structure and evaluations.
Critical factors that underpin the negotiation and final close of the project agreement

Christopher Darby, Partner - Head of Projects Construction & Infrastructure SA/NT, Minter Ellison Lawyers

12:10

Legal structures governing healthcare PPPs

Josh Sgro, Partner, Freehills

12:50

Lunch

1:50

PANEL DISCUSSION What do governments need to do to attract more bidders to give them the best choice?

Low level of interest from overseas bidders and investors
Simplifying the tendering process
Overcoming the challenge of private sector ability to secure debt and equity commitments in a shallow pool
Deriving maximum benefit from competition: challenges in the Australian market
Co-investment from government

2:20

CASE STUDY Aesthetics and operation – Getting the balance right

Integrating models of care and future provision into project design
Developing the planning and design principles within time and cost constraints
Clinical services delivery – social impact assessment and implications for design

Abbie Galvin, Principal, Bligh Voller Nield

3:00

Afternoon tea

3:20

Stakeholder focus: Strategies for engagement

Understanding the make up of the stakeholder group
- expectations and interests and role in project environment
Stakeholder mapping, relationship modelling and other management strategies
Stakeholder participation as a tool for effective implementation: transparency, accountability and risk management

4:00

Scope for innovation in design

Sustainability and scalability of project design
The brownfield factor: integrating flexibility given diverse and changing nature of clinical services provision
Impact of design innovation on project cost, delivery and amenity

Ian Forbes, Director, Design Inc
Design Inc is a joint winner of the 2009 Design & Health International Academy Award, Health Project over 40,000sqm

4:40

Closing remarks from Chair and end of day one

Day Two: Thursday 25th March

| Day One | Day Two |

8:30

Registration and networking

9:00

Opening remarks from Chair

9:10

Emerging from the crisis

Are PPPs for healthcare projects still viable?
How has the market developed in recent months?
How has the PPP model changed?
What more do governments need to do?

David Asteraki, Director - Infrastructure and Projects Group, KPMG

9:50

Financing healthcare PPPs in the new financial order

What are challenges of debt financing in the current environment?
What are some of the debt structuring models that can work for Australian PPPs?

Craig Lee, Managing Director - Asia Pacific, Assured Guaranty

10:30

Morning tea

10:50

INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY
Elements that drive a successful healthcare PPP transaction

Factors that underpin effective capital planning
Peculiarities of a social infrastructure PPP that render it suited to the ppp model but also complex to manage
Strengthening the project through sound commercial structuring that makes it an efficient mechanism for public service delivery and an attractive proposition for private sector

Joint session led by: Brookfield Multiplex

11:40

Risky business or best value for money

Underpinnings of optimal risk allocation between government and the private partner
Changes to the risk profile in the current scenario and implications for contractors
Strategies to mitigate and manage operational risk in the context of a healthcare PPP
Using a risk management approach to achieve VfM

12:20

CASE STUDY
Engineering success in health PPP's: Challenges for future proofing, cost and sustainability

Determining the constructability, feasibility and durability of design for the life of the project
Integrating flexibility into engineering services design : implications for cost and future proofing
Innovative engineering for operational efficiency: impact on project cost, service provision and sustainability

Darren Hinds, Associate Director - Buildings, AECOM

1:00

Lunch

2:00

The Client Perspective

Alan Tracey, Executive Manager, Royal Northshore Hospital Redevelopment Project

2:40

CASE STUDY
Operationalisation of the project – developing an execution framework

Enabling factors for a sound project management framework
Dynamics among partners, mutual commitment to goals
Appropriate governance mechanism for accountability and performance
Streamlining payments processes and project cash flows

Stuart Muirhead, Director, Capital Insight

3:20

Afternoon tea

3:40

The Operations Phase – how active involvement during all phases leads to a successful project and partnership

The Importance of the Owner and Facilities Manager during the Design and Construction Phase;
The role of the Owner and Facilities Manager in preparing for, and implementing, a seamless transition into the Operations Phase;
The role of an active Owner during the Operations Phase;
Lessons learned from 5 years of Operations.

Alex Perehinec, Operations and Quality Manager, Plenary Group Pty Ltd

4:20

CASE STUDY
Integrated facility management systems

Process innovation: Implications for efficiency, safety and compliance
Mitigating operational risk and reducing costs in a clinical setting
Streamlining the deployment of critical asset

Val Jovevski, Healthcare Leader, Honeywell Building Solutions South Asia Pacific

5:00

Closing remarks from Chair and end of conference

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