An anonymous question from a civil servant on the possibility of advanced payments.....

I've been asked to ask this question anonymously from a civil servant. Here's your chance supply chain members to raise clients' eyebrows and to try and bring about massive change in payment practice - from negative cashflow to positive cashflow, and please tell all of the potential savings/positive behavioural change and so on............

What commercial benefits would we (clients) gain if we used advance payrments on projects and would this have any challenges to NEC3 contracts? If money was paid up front a project through a project bank account would it interest you? Particularly would like replies from Tier 2 suppliers and consultants?