The rapidly growing in a variety of countries PPP sector has demonstrated its efficiency. Multiple experience of implementation of PPP projects, at this point in time, could be utilised for provision of assistance to countries which have not enjoyed the benefits that contemporary PPP models can offer. The project will deal with issues related to the domain of PPP procurement and collect and analyze different models of PPP procurement systems in countries where the most successful practices have been used and and prepare a set of well-structured, comprehensive universal recommendations. The project will also have a particular focus on current deal-breakers and existing problems of the PPP procurement sector (elaborate on the problems).
The project will focus on procurement principles and processes in order to attempt to prepare a universal guiding standard/ recommendations that governments will voluntary use as a framework for development of their national PPP procurement strategies.
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- Overall legal and regulatory framework;
- Selecting and preparing projects for the market (needs analysis, cost-benefit analysis/ value for money, risk identification and allocation, market assessment, project documents, unsolicited proposals);
- Managing procurement (project launch, bidder conference, prequalification, competitive negotiation or dialogue, request for proposals, evaluation and value for money report, selection of final or preferred bidder, lender’s due diligence, confirmation of the winning bid, financial closure);
- After contract award.
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The following key challenges, inter-alia, in PPP procurement will be properly addressed: the reasonable balance between reliability of the procurement process and the amount of necessary funds to cover its implementation, ways to avoid long bureaucratic timeframes for decision making and between stages of PPP procurement, cancelled or delayed procurements, and elimination of a possibility of too many over watching agencies with overlapping mandates.