Infrastructure

Through this comprehensive offering, Deloitte’s infrastructure advisory practice empowers infrastructure owners, operators, and governments as they prioritize infrastructure needs, utilize tools for data-driven decision-making, and effectively leverage capital. Deloitte supports these critical tasks by strategically aligning investments, developing short- and long-term plans, and positioning agency needs to align with the mission.

Furthermore, as clients develop programs to execute on their strategic goals, Deloitte has a suite of complex program management frameworks and skilled professionals to support the most complex and sophisticated infrastructure projects. These tools will help clients consider economic factors, anticipate future needs, and identify appropriate assets to support programs and goals. In addition to providing strategic project management and planning support, Deloitte considers economic factors and the natural life cycles of assets to help infrastructure clients respond to evolving market and regulatory environments.

As infrastructure and construction owners develop solutions that meet the needs of local stakeholders, Deloitte’s multidisciplinary team, including infrastructure professionals, engineers, construction specialists, financial advisors, economists, and data scientists, is committed to helping government agencies and infrastructure owners throughout the asset life cycle, turning construction risk into confidence.

Through intentional capital program oversight and capital project consulting methods—including Deloitte’s Strategic Portfolio Management—bridge the gap between leadership (strategy, finance, risk, etc.) and construction (design, engineering, and construction) to manage complex infrastructure programs to completion and deliver intended results for stakeholders on time and within budget.

Public Infrastructure and Capital Projects

To address the needs of evolving market and regulatory environments, infrastructure owners and governments must be intentional about compliance and reducing risk. Deloitte supports clients by helping them increase operational efficiency and promote program transparency through developing sustainable compliance, governance, and regulatory oversight programs; providing solutions to manage risk; delivering AI capabilities and end-to-end model life cycle solutions; and managing risk in portfolios of guaranteed, acquired, and/or regulated assets.

Additionally, to promote program integrity, Deloitte enables a focus on program efficiency and effectiveness by assisting clients with detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud within the program execution through the employees, beneficiaries, and third parties.

As infrastructure owners and government leaders plan infrastructure projects, Deloitte helps them navigate the complex funding and financing environment. With demonstrated leadership from conceptualization to delivery, Deloitte’s professionals can help identify and develop funding sources, conduct risk and funding gap analyses, and guide stakeholders through complex procurement processes and market interactions.

Infrastructure and capital projects is devoted to sustainable management of infrastructure assets encompassing the infrastructure’s entire life cycle and helps ensure each asset is properly maintained to meet or exceed performance and mission requirements in a reliable, sustainable, and cost-effective manner and to properly fulfill its specific roll as an enabler to the country’s economic, environmental, and social growth and well-being.

The massive influx of infrastructure investment in the United States has created a complex web of funding opportunities, each with varying application and reporting requirements. Deloitte provides grants management services to more than 30 state and local governments, guiding them through large and complex federal assistance programs—including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act; American Rescue Plan Act; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; and Inflation Reduction Act.

Additionally, Deloitte offers an integrated and holistic infrastructure consultancy approach to IIJA or BIL consulting. Our broad capabilities in opportunity identification, grant application prioritization, and full grants life cycle management supports state and local government to catalyze infrastructure investment

Deloitte advises government clients on new techniques to analyze, prioritize, finance, and enable greater visibility into government infrastructure projects and drive improvements in cost, schedule, and delivery quality. Project and portfolio prioritization, program funding, technology, smart infrastructure, and governance and delivery are the major pillars that provide a strategic framework for our services to government organizations.

With professionals in industrial manufacturing, aerospace and defense, and engineering and construction, Deloitte offers clients deep industry insight and integrated solutions with a host of efficiency- and productivity-enhancing technologies and services that help decision-makers understand the health of their capital investment programs.

Public Infrastructure and Capital Projects

Today’s digital world requires significant cyber and information technology skills to prevent and mitigate threats to critical infrastructure. Deloitte offers a suite of cybersecurity and technology enablement capabilities to state and local government clients, supporting their readiness for complex challenges and helping close gaps in cyber services.

Deloitte strives to help organizations plan and execute an integrated cyber approach to harness the power of information networks. This can enhance business operations through innovative technology solutions focused on increasing mission performance, without compromising security or privacy.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital twins, and data analytics have emerged as critical tools that leading transportation and infrastructure providers are considering to achieve their strategic goals. These approaches also provide these organizations with optimized, transparent, and data-driven decision-making. Enabling artificial intelligence decision support systems for real-time and predictive multimodal systems operations is critical to efficient operation of today’s transportation systems. These tools also help provide incentives to be dynamically presented to transportation users, while behavioral science can be used to shape network demand through these incentives, nudges, and loyalty programs. These tools and techniques offer tremendous opportunities to shape the demands on today’s multi-modal transportation networks.

The next generation of business challenges create a new wave of human resources, talent, and organizational management priorities for the public sector—opportunities for leaders to reimagine how they work, grow, and develop their workforce and support their physical and/or digital workplace.

Human Capital