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Recent engagements.

A national platform rated red on arrival. A procurement four months from a deadline nobody could move. Nine organisations that had to agree one set of numbers. A savings target nobody had a route to.

Central government · HM Treasury

A national spending platform, taken on red and delivered

OSCAR2 consolidates public spending reporting across more than 500 public bodies and the devolved administrations. We took it on rated red, with the business case approved and nothing standing behind it.

500+Public bodies reporting through it
£1tn+Annual expenditure consolidated
6 monthsTo rebuild the programme

Central government · Defra

A stalled national procurement, recovered in four months

A Brexit-critical biosecurity procurement had stopped moving against a deadline the department could not renegotiate.

4 monthsFrom arrival to recovered
£4mCommissioning managed alongside
MinistersReporting line, with Cabinet Office

Cross-government · Nine organisations

A £900m+ business case across nine government organisations, approved

Nine sets of baseline data, nine finance functions with different definitions of the same cost, and nine executive teams whose interests did not automatically align.

£900m+Programme value
9Organisations in scope
40,000+Users affected

Local government · Kingston and Haringey

Two London boroughs, and savings that were still there in year two

Two councils, the same problem: a savings target, and a portfolio of individually sound projects that was not collectively going to meet it.

£22mKingston, first year
£8mHaringey, each year
300+Staff in shared services

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