to house 150,000 people.
PADS is in effect a number of large but related high cost projects
offering opportunities at prime contractor, main contractor, sub-
contractor and supplier level and extensive requirements for
professional services. The project is high profile and companies
successful in winning business will benefit in other world markets as
a result of their involvement in such a prestigious project.
To maximise involvement and UK potential the opportunities need to be
drawn to the attention of UK civil engineering, manufacturing and
service companies ranging from major groups to small businesses
across a broad spectrum of UK industry. To achieve this objective it
is essential to uncover in the first instance the basic and diverse
information about the project. This should be sufficient to allow
each company within this wide cross-section of UK industry to
recognise the potential which the project offers for its particular
product or services. However, such information must be gathered from
a wide spread of offices and organisations in Hong Kong, each with
responsibility for specific areas of the project. Moreover as the
project progresses the number of organisations and areas responsible
for placing contracts will increase significantly.
PEP1 has valuable experience in dealing with a similar situation on
the Channel Tunnel. The PADS project will be more problematical
because of the geographical remoteness from the UK and it is even
more essential to establish credibility and sound working