All-of-Government consultancy

MartinJenkins is a registered provider of All-of-Government (AoG) Consultancy Services.

From November 2015 we have been registered as a Tier 2 provider of Finance and Economics services, and a Tier 3 provider of Assurance services.

In 2016 we are in the process of registering as a Tier 1 provider of consultancy services to the public sector for these areas: Business change, human resource, operations management and risk, and policy, research and development. This will cover all our other specialist services to government.

For more information about All-of-Government contracts in general, see the MBIE website.

For more information about the first Business and Finance tranche of the All-of-Government Consultancy Services scheme, see the MBIE website.

FINANCE AND ECONOMICS SERVICES – AOG CONSULTANCY

MartinJenkins’ strength in finance and economic services is underpinned by the deep experience that our consultants have of public sector financial management, and financial and economic analysis.

Our advice is regularly sought for financial and economic issues that are complex, have challenging organisational, policy or regulatory dimensions, have high profile in the public domain and require innovative solutions.

This depth of expertise is reflected in the broad range of services that we provide under this heading:

  1. Appraisal of investment proposals including the development and review of business cases using the Better Business Cases methodology and cost–benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis 
  2. Economic analysis and modelling including value-for-money analysis, economic impact analysis and pricing/costing analysis 
  3. Financial strategy including funding frameworks and cost recovery/fees reviews, financial analysis and modelling, and balance sheet reviews 
  4. Project financial management including budgeting, variance analysis and output costing 
  5. Private–public partnerships including economic and financial modelling, risk and sensitivity analysis and risk sharing analysis 
  6. Public sector financial management including management of Budget processes, four-year plans, baseline reviews and Budget initiative development and bids 
  7. Economic development including quantitative and qualitative research on sector / industry / regional economic performance, economic strategy development, regional growth studies and programme design.

ASSURANCE SERVICES – AOG CONSULTANCY

Our approach to providing assurance services draws on the multiple disciplines and lines of service within MartinJenkins. For example, in addition to financial and economic lenses, our assurance services will typically also involve staff who are specialists in the areas of organisational strategy, business and process improvement, HR, policy, and evaluation and research. The benefit that this brings to our clients is assurance advice that is comprehensive and based on multiple perspectives.

In the assurance sub-category, our services include:

  1. financial and economic model reviews and audits 
  2. business case reviews 
  3. budget bid reviews 
  4. value for money reviews 
  5. balance sheet reviews.