Avanti West Coast

Brief description 

Following on from First Group’s successful win of the West Coast franchise, Vextrix has been appointed to review and plan through the franchise mobilisation of Avanti West’s Station Property Project commitments. These commitments were made as part of First Group’s bid and subsequently became part of the franchise agreement.

Our role is to assess what has been committed to from a project delivery perspective, initially undertaking a high level assessment of the ability to deliver the committed scope, budget and programme of each of the committed obligations.

We identified any issues and actions that needed to be taken prior to the start of the franchise to ensure the programme can be delivered, as well as preparing the projects for handover to the incoming franchise property team. We have already reviewed all the existing contracts and advised on whether they should be rolled over or terminated.

We assisted the ‘day one’ and branding teams in delivering their aspirations in the first few weeks of the franchise in relation to station property.

Our experience in the delivery of a wide range of rail projects, including listed buildings, gives us the ability to assess all of Avanti West’s committed obligations and contracts and identify issues with the correct course of action in preparation for the franchise commencement.