PPP Consultants
Specialist advisory across procurement, delivery and finance.
PPP Consultants advises bidders and authorities wherever their projects are.
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From the Chief Executive.
PPP Consultants exists to help bidders and authorities to close infrastructure projects with discipline, on terms that work for both sides.
Public Private Partnerships and large-infrastructure transactions reward early-stage rigour. Output Specifications written to be measured. Payment mechanisms that align incentive with outcome. Risk allocation matrices that survive lender due diligence. The work that determines whether a project converts to Financial Close is done in the months before bidders see the documentation.
The firm advises bidders and authorities on either side of that procurement equation. We have raised competitive senior debt and equity from United Kingdom, European, Middle East and Asian sources, and we draft bid documentation structured to the evaluation matrix that will score it.
We are international by design and partner-led by discipline. Every engagement is led directly by a partner of the firm. I welcome a direct conversation.
David Crowley
Chief Executive Officer
Delivering at IADC Africa Conference Feb 2026
Former main board director of Sonoco Products Company (USA Fortune 500); Chartered Certified Accountant; over 35 years of main-board and PPP advisory experience.
Our senior team
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Authority-side insight. Policy-level experience of how authorities specify, procure and evaluate Public Private Partnership projects. For a bidder, that is the advantage of knowing how the decision will be made.
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Building & procurement standards. Former senior member of the UK Government’s Building Research Establishment (BRE) PPP Unit. Lifecycle costing specific to country.
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Project finance modelling. Led by a former senior advisor from a major City of London bank, with a doctorate in financial modelling and a published author. Vose software - as used by the World Bank - is utilised for risk and sensitivities analysis.
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Forensic financial review. Forensic-review-standard model build and stress-testing, stringent bid documentation, and jurisdiction-specific lifecycle costing.
Over 150 years of combined senior team experience. Every engagement is partner-led.
Our principles and standards.
Every first conversation is partner-led.
Every engagement is conducted under commercial confidentiality.
Structure is set before drafting begins.
Bid documentation is built to the evaluation matrix.
Financial models are stress-tested to forensic-review standard.
Capital follows credibility.
Our senior team is drawn from
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HM Treasury's Public Private Partnership Taskforce
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The UK Government's Building Research Establishment PPP Unit, which set UK PPP building standards
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City of London project finance advisory firms
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Senior United Nations Africa and Middle East office heads
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Major UK infrastructure contractors
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Top 4 trained senior auditors
Over 150 years of combined experience across Public Private Partnership procurement, large infrastructure delivery and project finance.
The firm
The experience behind the advice.
Clients bring us the problems that stand between a project and its close. Solving them is the firm's work — and the experience below is how it is done.
HM TREASURY PPP TASKFORCE
EUROPEAN UNION PROCUREMENT DESIGNATION
UK BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT
A senior partner was seconded for two years to the central UK government unit that defined Public Private Partnership policy and produced the Green Book — still the staple reference across most of Africa.
The firm's CEO holds the EU designation that recognises substantive experience in the public procurement of complex infrastructure projects under European Union directives.
Senior team experience at the government unit that set the building standards for UK Public Private Partnership facilities, including the lifecycle costing of what a facility costs to run over its life.
UNITED NATIONS AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST
UK INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACTORS
FORENSIC FINANCIAL REVIEW
Senior team experience at the heads of United Nations Africa and Middle East offices, with working relationships across multilateral lenders, development finance institutions and procurement authorities.
Senior team experience inside the contractors that deliver Public Private Partnership and large-infrastructure projects — the delivery side that converts buildable design into bankable proposition.
Big Four-trained in the forensic review of financial data — the discipline that stress-tests financial models and delivers project-finance documentation to lender-grade standard.
Recognition
HM Treasury PPP Taskforce - two year secondment as external expert; UK PPP Policy and the Green Book. A milestone in the UK PPP programme.
European Union — designated EU procurement expert, recognised for substantive experience in the public procurement of complex infrastructure projects under European Union directives.
First on time and on budget close — David Crowley was the first UK Project Director to close a Public Private Partnership project on time and on budget (Cheshire County Council PFI schools project), a milestone in the UK PPP programme
IADC Africa Conference 2026 — invited to deliver an overview of the African continent procurement pipeline: recognising the firm's knowledge and standing in Africa.
What we believe
Closing a Public Private Partnership on time and on budget. The discipline of procurement is the discipline of getting the right work done before bidders see the documentation. Time and budget at financial close are functions of structure, not luck.
Bids are scored, not read. Authority scoring matrices reward the bid that maps directly to the evaluation criteria. Persuasive prose without the matrix mapping does not score.
Buildable is not bankable. A project that can be built is not necessarily a project that can be funded. Engineering feasibility and financial bankability are distinct tests; one does not establish the other.
Raising competitive infrastructure finance. Competitive infrastructure finance is raised on the back of credible structuring and credible counterparties. Capital does not lead; it follows.
From first conversation to close
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First conversation
A direct, partner-led conversation under commercial confidentiality to understand the project and what you need.
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Diagnostic
We assess the project's commercial structure, risk allocation and bankability, and define where we add value.
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Engagement letter
A clear scope and terms — from a single deliverable to full Project Director responsibility through to Financial Close.
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Partner-led delivery
Senior partners lead the work throughout, from mandate to close.
The first conversation.
Every first conversation is partner-led and conducted under commercial confidentiality. We set out, with you, how PPP Consultants will deliver the outcomes you require.
