11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800 • Fairfax, VA 22030 • Phone: 703-620-4914 • Fax: 703-620-4709
U.S. Capitol Building

What We Do

Policy Implementation Services

Many businesses, trade associations and state and local governmental agencies are finding that approaching the U.S. Congress or Federal agencies with specific issues is increasingly difficult, complex, and competitive. Success requires good organization, thorough preparation, and excellent advice.

CPI has the knowledge and capability to:

  • Assess a particular public policy issue and ascertain the most effective legislative and/or administrative remedy
  • Provide a detailed strategy proposal, including the need for grassroots efforts, political action, and media involvement for a successful policy campaign
  • Closely involve the client in the process with timely status reports and direct involvement, when appropriate

Project Development Services

The transportation and infrastructure projects of the 21st century will not materialize by themselves. Strategies to develop and implement them must take into consideration an overwhelming demand for capital along with limited federal, state and local resources.

CPI has extensive experience in creating a successful funding strategy for a particular project and/or technology. CPI can provide the following services:

  • Analyze the project and/or technology in regards to the feasibility criteria used by the various agencies and/or congressional committees;
  • Prepare a detailed strategy including the scoping and staging of the project, identify the means to fund the project and recommend congressional action if required;
  • Draft the relevant provisions, identify the appropriate legislative vehicle, assess the probability of success and manage the project proposal through to enactment;
  • New appraisals are often needed to identify funding resources from a multitude of categories rather than from just one source; and
  • Develop long term strategies.

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Services

The identification and acquisition of scarce federal capital resources is becoming a difficult task. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly necessary to develop a public-private partnership (PPP) approach to projects. This technique requires a combination of efforts at the federal, state and local levels of government along with the private sector. At the same time, new and innovative financing methods are needed to bridge the gap between the availability of public funds and the total cost of the project.

CPI is a leader in the PPP field, serving on the Board of the National Council of Public Private Partnerships (NCPPP). Senior Principal Ken Butler will serve as the President of the NCPPP for the two-year term beginning in November of 2007, and is often asked to travel nationwide to make presentations on PPPs to state and local officials. Previously, he co-sponsored the development of the Transportation Institute within the NCPPP to bring specific attention to transportation related public-private partnership opportunities. The Institute works through legislative means and educational programs to enhance the use of PPPs and to remove real and perceived barriers that prevent PPPs from developing. Mr. Butler was elected as the Transportation Institute’s first Chairman in 2004.

CPI’s heavy involvement in the legislative process and the activities of the NCPPP allows us to provide our clients with up-to-date knowledge of all requirements necessary for a project to be approved. We provide the following services to enable our clients to meet the challenges of pursuing a PPP:
  • Extensive contacts with funding sources in North America that could be utilized to finance an appropriate PPP project;
  • Identification of appropriate requirements necessary to qualify as a PPP and become eligible to receive state and/or local support;
  • Knowledge to form a consortium in any selected market that could best win the proposed project;
  • Ability to identify innovative financing sources, joint development or other PPP techniques to increase funding dedicated to the project; and
  • Preparation of political strategy to advance the proposal of the consortium.
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