Public Facilities

In the case of a public project, there are variety of procurement methods such as the "design build system" and the "ECI (Early Contractor Involvement)1 system" that has recently become the focus of attention, in addition to the conventional "separate design and construction system." Our advantage is that we apply the highly transparent PM (Project Management) service to all of these systems.

We are involved from the startup of a project, and propose the optimum procurement methods for the project. We deliver a wide variety of services including the support for setting the target price for effective bids, the Price Cap Method in which the target price is to be set as the upper limit at the design and construction stages, VE2/CD3 proposals, and schedule management in consideration of the committee meeting schedule. We provide expertise to support clients to ensure the required quality standards, cost minimization and the compliance with the schedule.

1. Early Contractor Involvement [ECI] = A system in which the contractor participates in a project from the design stage. It enables construction-related issues to be reflected in the design, resulting in merits such as reduction of the work period.
2. Value engineering [VE]: an approach that clarifies the relationship between value of actualization and required costs in order to provide multiple low-cost options that lower costs without detracting in terms of value.
3. Cost Down [CD] = A way of thinking in which the relationship between the functions to be realized and the required cost is classified, and the cost reduced.

We carry out clients support and management to cope with the various procurement systems shown below.

We are involved in a project from the startup stage which includes formulation of the basis concept and the basic plan. We make proposals concerning "what facilities" to prepare, "at what cost", "by what date", and "how", and provide support for decision-making. We also carry out a current situation survey, arrange the planned conditions, and provide support for holding conferences with the local community. We formulate the direction of the project, the product scale, the procurement policy, and the budget, in order to meet the clients' demands.

In recent years, deterioration measures in public facilities have become a major issue. In this connection, in April 2014 the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications requested regional municipalities to "formulate general management plans for public facilities."
We have already started various efforts to overcome the issues with which various local municipalities are confronted for supporting municipalities to formulate long-term and short-term plans, based on our track record achieved through working with major private corporations.
The kinds of issues confronting each regional municipality differ from one municipality to another. We obtain a grasp of the current situation and arrange the various issues, then propose individual realizable solutions.

Example of activities in municipality A

Example of activities in municipality B

For some municipalities, the burden of interim maintenance is high, and the fact that there are insufficient staff available to carry out planning formulating work such as "development of a mid-term plan" and "breaking down the mid-term plan to a fiscal year plan" is an issue.
Our service will complement the shortage of specialization and manpower at municipalities, and provide support for the creation of a setup that will enable the staff to concentrate on the work that they are supposed to be doing (= planning formulation work).