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Daniel Blakemore

Commercial and project services in infrastructure to Government and the private sector.

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Project Experience

Project Experience - Correctional

Commercial and Negotiation Lead

Metropolitan Remand Centre PPP

  • Development and project management of a negotiation strategy and program, working with the State and the State’s legal adviser in delivery of project outcomes
  • Structuring the deal to ensure expedited timeframes but also value for money integrity
  • Design of value for money tests, through external advice, benchmarking etc.
  • Negotiation with VCIP as asset owner, contractor and facility manager, ensuring value for money outcomes in a sole source procurement
  • Liaison with stakeholder groups, such as Executive, DTF, relevant Minister and Government
2016-

Commercial Lead / 2IC

Private Prisons Projects Contract Extension (Port Phillip Prison, Fulham Correctional Centre PPPs)

  • Development of payment mechanism and commercial structure of the contract
  • Lead/ secondary negotiator on commercial principles
  • Value for money and contestability testing and reporting
  • Development of the negotiation strategy, including the fall back strategy and ‘tipping-point’ criteria and metrics
  • Stakeholder group management, including Steering Committee, DTF, DPC, Ministers and Government
  • Managed ‘big 4’ commercial advisers
  • Designed asset management regime for life expired asset, including ISO550001 accreditation
2014-2016

Senior Manager, Partnerships Victoria

Ravenhall Prison

  • Commercial and policy adviser
  • Governance
2012-2013

Project Experience - Transport

Commercial Adviser / Modeller

Katherine Heavy Vehicle Bypass BCA

  • Business Case
  • Financial model Development
  • Financial and economic analysis
  • Commercial Adviser
2016

Commercial Adviser

East West Link Stage 1

  • Commercial advisory on SPV and bid issues
  • Tender response due diligence to financiers, including leading critique of the commercial and risk assumptions made in the capex and opex elements of the proposal and the payment mechanism
2014

Transaction Manager

London Underground PPP – Infraco JNP SPV (Bechtel. Ferrovial, Amey, Jarvis)

  • Commercial structuring
  • Project management
  • Program management
  • Financial management
  • Bid management
  • Negotiation
2008-2010

Asset Investment Manager

London Underground PPP – Infraco JNP SPV (Bechtel. Ferrovial, Amey, Jarvis)

  • Capital and operational expenditure management
  • Strategic Asset Management
  • Business Case development and sponsorship
  • Asset investment strategy
  • 6 Sigma TQM
2007-2008

Commercial Magaer – Modifications

London Underground PPP – Infraco JNP SPV (Bechtel. Ferrovial, Amey, Jarvis)

  • Commercial structuring of PPP modifications (<₤80m)
  • Negotiation
  • Transaction management
  • Contract management
  • Bid management
  • Revenue management
2003-2007

Performance Support Manager

London Underground PPP – Infraco JNP SPV (Bechtel. Ferrovial, Amey, Jarvis)

  • Commercial Management
  • Negotiation
2001-2003

Commercial Adviser

Melbourne Tullamarine Airport

  • PMO health assessment
  • Commercial and strategic analysis
2011

Project Experience - Social Infrastructure

Commercial Adviser / Expert Witness

Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre

  • Economic and commercial analysis
  • Critique and analysis of evidence supporting the case of the claimant
  • Strategic advice on State’s approach to contesting the claim
  • Identifying areas for discovery and developing brief for ‘clean’ expert witness
2014-2015

Commercial Adviser / Financiers Certifier

Sunshine Coast University Hospital

  • Provide assurance to the security trustee of the ongoing viability of the SPV and the project
  • Perform due diligence testing on estimated ‘Cost to Complete’
  • Strategic advice on State’s approach to contesting the claim
  • Undertake due diligence on forecast contractual milestone achievement
2014

Senior Manager, Partnerships Victoria

DTF Partnerships Victoria

  • Operations, contract, risk, claims and dispute management,
  • Business case and procurement strategy development
  • Project development, adviser engagement and mobilisation
  • Commercial principles development and PSC construction
  • Design brief, payment mechanism, performance regime structuring,
  • EOI and RFP development, management and evaluation,
  • Negotiation, contractual and financial close,
  • Reviewable services, pricing reviews and hand back arrangements.
  • Gateway review,
  • Partnerships Victoria policy development
2011-2014

Commercial Adviser

RMIT

  • Business wider Procurement Strategy development and implementation
2010

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daniel@blakemorescommercial.com.au

+61 0423 371 921