2021 Report details for project: Natural History Museum at Harwell
| Project name | Natural History Museum at Harwell - there are 2 reports for this project: 2021, 2022 |
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| Organisation | DCMS (D5 ) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2021 (data is from March 2021) |
| Category | Infrastructure - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | The £182m DCMS-funded NHM@Harwell programme will create a Science and Digitisation centre to advance global scientific knowledge and the scientific, cultural and wider objectives of the UK Government by transforming the NHM collections' physical environment and improving physical and digital research access to the collections and their associated data. This will enable the Museum to secure and digitise its growing collections for increased research use throughout this century and into the next, providing a springboard for partnerships, and employing and developing new technologies. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | The Infrastructure Project Authority's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating is Amber.This is primarily due to the following factors: Our Amber Infrastructure Project Authority's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating is primarily due to the programme being under IPA monitoring. As recommended by the IPA we are making programme budgeting a key focus of our first formal review and have scheduled it in early summer to enable recommendations to be acted on ahead of the outline business case submission. The NHM@Harwell Programme team are also drawing up a shortlist of projects and programmes we would like to benchmark against to improve cost certainty as recommended by IPA. Further to this we have explored our key programme risks, including some related to budget, with DCMS experts and the Natural History Museum's Infrastructure Committee and are planning a formal 'deep dive' review of programme risks with IPA and DCMS. NHM@Harwell are also in ongoing discussions with the DCMS to develop a Memorandum of Understanding with HM Treasury on end year flexibility to ensure effective joint work to manage the programme budget. |
| Start date | 2019-05-15 |
| End date | 2026-12-30 |
| Schedule text | The project end-date is 30 December 2026. This is primarily due to the following factors: The programme is still working to the schedule agreed in the Strategic Outline Case+, with the decision on what collections move to Harwell expected this summer, Royal Institute of British Architects stage 3 of the build programme planned to begin in autumn, and construction commencing in 2023. The scope to bring forward the start date of construction has recently been explored and, following modelling of the knock on consequences for budget and timeline, a decision to retain the current timeline has been taken. This will be kept under review as the Natural History Museum are keen to maximise opportunities to accelerate the build programme where feasible. |
| Baseline | £1.54m |
| Forecast | £1.42m |
| Variance | -8.00% |
| Variance text: | The budget variance exceeds 5%. Reduction in spend due to underspend in the capital expenditure, slightly offset by an increase in revenue expenditure. Primarily this is driven by delays in the build profile expenditure. This does not reflect a change in the overall programme spend. The memorandum of understanding relating to end year flexibility that the programme are seeking from HM Treasury would would assist in managing future variance. |
| Whole Life Cost | £181.76m |
| WLCost text: | The projects Baseline Whole Life Cost is £181.76m. This is primarily due to the following factors: Full Budgeted Costs unchanged since previous iteration. Fully funded by DCMS. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2021.csv |
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