Working closely with OGC, the MOD has produced best practice criteria against which performance can be measured. The comparison of project performance against these criteria has been formalised into the OGC Gateway* process, formerly known as Key Stage Peer Review (KSPR). OGC Gateway Review provides project sponsors with comparative performance reports and assurance at key decision points in the CADMID cycle and is an important part of project control and delivery of improvement in project performance.

AMTEC is supporting the MOD in the OGC Gateway and KSPR process, and enriching best practice from current project management, project advisory and review feedback experience.

Our credentials include:

• the successful delivery of hundreds of public sector projects and programmes,
• the provision of consultants to support the delivery of over 150 OGC Gateway Reviews across the Ministry of Defence, central government, local authorities and the NHS,
• the provision of gateway review expertise to the Department for Work and Pensions.

AMTEC project and programme managers span a full range of public and private sector backgrounds, and individual consultants typically have over ten years of relevant experience. With a pragmatic approach to project management, leaning heavily towards the methodologies and procedures of PRINCE2 (adopted by the MOD), we have completed assignments in which project values range from several thousand to several billion pounds.

Our project and programme management expertise enables us to act as advisors when we are not actively managing a project. Advice includes specific activities at the initiation and appraisal of new programmes / projects, through preparation for and execution of reviews, followed by the implementation of recovery action plans, when necessary.

This experience has made AMTEC programme and project managers the natural choice for external, non-advocate reviewers (for OGC Gateway Reviews, KSPRs, and most recently DWP Gateway Reviews).

(*The term "Gateway" refers to OGC Gateway™. OGC Gateway™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce.)