On May 8, 7:06*pm, D7666 wrote:
On May 8, 6:54*pm, Mizter T wrote:

*What does interest me is to what
extent the PPP contractual arrangements remained in place, albeit
perhaps in a vestigial sense, w.r.t. the in-house (LU-owned) Metronet,
as I understand they did.

ex metronet is now ''lu cmo'' (chief maintenance officer) : *as far as
performance targets on items such as time to fix faults etc, the same
criteria remain in place but not even wooden dollars are transferred
[*] now. The rumours all suggest the metrics were left *in place for
cmo to compare with tube lines. How long things will last now is
anyones guess. Maintenance performance will still have to be measured
- it must be - and I for one do think a form of measurement needs to
remain - but how or even if they re-invent the wheel or continue with
the existing mechanism without money transfer I have no idea.

[*] this is an example of the duplicated people working on contracts -
someone from the infraco side has to do their calculation, someone
from the lu side. No need to do that now.

--
Nick

Indeed, from an OpsCo point of view, there is now more of an attutide
of - keep things running and more bending of the rules taking place
(sometimes shockingly). It's quite hard to adjust for a lot of people
in the Service Control area that I'm in as only half the people were
around pre PPP,

I did hear that the Power PFI nearly came to an end when they had to
replace some expensive kit in every substation! And quite how the
Connect PFI is still going baffles me too