LAWA Landside Access Modernization Program’ Automated People Mover P3 Procurement
Risk Informed P3 Procurement
CLIENT
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA)
LOCATION
Los Angeles, CA
SERVICES
Alternative Delivery/ P3 Evaluation
Risk Assessment and Risk Management
Rendering of APM at LAX Airport
Source: Los Angeles World Airports
SHA Analytics, LLC served as part of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) financial advisory team for the Automated People Mover (APM) project. This new 2.5-mile people mover is part of the Landside Access Modernization Program at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The APM project is being delivered through a Public-Private Partnership (P3) using the Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM) procurement model, with an overall contract value of $4.9 billion over a 30-year contract, of which approximately $2 billion is for initial design and construction to get the system operational.
As part of the financial advisory team, SHA Analytics, LLC lead the cost and schedule risk analysis during the project development and DBFOM procurement phases. Our process involved estimating risk-based cost and schedule outcomes for the project, using Monte Carlo simulation. This analysis helped LAWA understand the potential cost and schedule risks the project faces during its design and construction. By developing these risk-based estimates from the bottom-up, LAWA was able to evaluate risk allocation within the P3 contract terms and communicate risks to bidders during the DBFOM procurement process. LAWA reached financial close with their selected bidder in June 2018.
Additionally the analysis allows LAWA to set project contingency budgets within a probabilistic framework, improving their budgeting by accounting for potential risk exposure. Therefore as the project moves into the design and construction phases, SHA Analytics, LLC continues to conduct regular updates to the risk analysis to forecast remaining risk exposure relative to the project’s contingency budget.