The Local Education Partnership, as proposed under the BSF Programme, will take the form of a public private partnership between the Local Authority, Partnerships for Schools (PfS) and a Private Sector Partner selected in open competition under EU procurement rules. It will be a joint venture company focused on delivering the BSF investment. The proposed shareholdings are 80% for the Private Sector Partner, 10% for PfS and 10% for the Local Authority.

Partnerships for Schools anticipate that the LEP will:

• Work with the local authority and other stakeholders to develop strategic investment plans for the secondary estate.
  
  
• Act as a single point of contact for procuring and providing all the services needed to deliver the investment programme.
  
  
• Integrate and manage a diverse range of supply chain sub-contractors.
  
  
• Enable delivery of projects through a mixture of procurement routes - Private Finance (PFI) and conventional funding.

The benefits of the LEP model are seen as:

• Standardisation of procurement and contract processes and documentation.
  
  
• Removal of repeat bidding.
  
  
• Building efficiences, including the impact of ICT on educational delivery, lifecycle and service delivery efficiencies.

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