2018 Report details for project: Asylum Accommodation and Support Transformation (AAST)
| Project name | Asylum Accommodation and Support Transformation (AAST) - there are 3 reports for this project: 2018, 2019, 2020 |
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| Organisation | HO (D16) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2018 (data is from September 2017) |
| Category | Transformation - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | Asylum accommodation and support is a statutory responsibility. The Project aims to deliver an asylum accommodation and support model that will ensure the safety and security of service users and their host communities as well as representing VfM for the UK Government, and learning the lessons from previous asylum support contracts. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | The Project's IPA RAG rating is Amber as good progress has been made on the options evaluation resulting in the Differentiated Support Model being selected as the preferred delivery model; and Targeted Service Improvement being the preferred requirements improvements. Both have been taken forward in the Outline Business Case (OBC) which was submitted for Home Office approval on 8 September 2017. Key assumptions and conclusions are continually being tested with stakeholders to ensure initiatives being undertaken to manage volumes are reflected in the procurement documentation. |
| Start date | 2016-08-29 |
| End date | 2019-09-02 |
| Schedule text | Key milestones were rebaselined in March 2017 to allow more time to synthesize stakeholder feedback and to increase engagement with the market. |
| Baseline | £2.93m |
| Forecast | £2.54m |
| Variance | -13.00% |
| Variance text: | Recruitment of staff into the Project Team took longer than anticipated, so not all of the budget was spent. |
| Whole Life Cost | £7.51m |
| WLCost text: | The OBC submitted to the Home Office Portfolio, Investment and Change Committee in September 2017 and to HM Treasury in October 2017 included costs for the preferred delivery model, encompassing the whole life cost of the new contracts from September 2019 onwards. This is estimated at £3,381m-£5,796m, depending on demand (a range of possible scenarios has been modelled). The £7.51m displayed in the total budgeted whole life costs reflects the Project Team costs only, as these were the only known costs prior to development of the OBC. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2018.csv |
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