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Body of Knowledge:
Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
Force majeure events are a limited set of events which may arise during the term of the PPP contract through no fault of either party. These are best managed by the private partner. They are more severe than relief events, will typically last longer and may result in termination of the PPP contract...
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Body of Knowledge:
Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
Monitoring the performance of the private partner is a primary function of the contract management team of the government. In most PPPs, the performance monitoring and reporting is done by the private partner, making the function largely one of assurance that the reporting is accurate and auditing...
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Body of Knowledge:
Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
Issue management usually comes into effect when significant risks arise or materialize. The PPP contract management manual should include issue management procedures that deal with irregularities and mitigate the issues that lead to risk materialization.
Conflict and issues typically occur within a...
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Body of Knowledge:
Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
The life span of PPP projects is extensive and it is rare that the same staff and personnel will see the project through to the conclusion. Therefore, it is likely that the personnel involved in the management of the contract is going to change several times throughout the life cycle of the project...
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Body of Knowledge:
Project Identification and PPP Screening
The next step after defining the technical solution is to clarify the technical scope, including a detailed description and set of requirements for the most important aspects of the project (that is, a technical outline of the project).
This step includes a description of the project that covers...
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Body of Knowledge:
Project Identification and PPP Screening
It is good practice to complete a report containing at least the following sections before entering the full appraisal process and, specifically, before committing staff and/or hiring advisors.
1. Executive summary and recommendations;
2. Project description: Outline of technical solution;
3. Needs...
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Director of Healthcare Projects
Peter is responsible for business development in the healthcare sector for John Laing, a leading international investor in economic and social infrastructure which has delivered more than 20 major healthcare PPP projects and over 40 clinics and primary care...
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Mr. David Ehrhardt, CEO of Castalia, is a renowned infrastructure expert with over 20 years of experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating PPPs in over 15 countries. He is qualified in law and economics, and has advised on over US$20 billion in PPP transactions in transport, energy,...
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ndre Luiz Marques, economist, PhD in Energy and Environmental Planning and Master in Administration focusing on finance and logistics and two MBAs in management and leadership. Executive with over 20 years of professional experience mainly in the private sector in leading companies in their...
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E.R. Yescombe is a consultant on public-private partnerships and project finance, with many years’ experience in various forms of structured finance, including project finance, leasing, export credits, property and asset finance. He has advised government entities on PPP policy issues and contract...
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Daan Vermeer is currently completing his PhD thesis on the critical evaluation of strategic PPP/PFI investment vehicles for social infrastructure portfolios. His doctoral work is linked to UCL’s MSc course in Infrastructure Investment & Finance, and supported by the UK’s Major Projects...
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Laurence Carter is the Senior Director of the Public-Private Partnerships Group of the World Bank Group. The PPP Group advises on the strategic direction and goals for the WBG on PPPs, supports coordination across the WBG, promotes partnerships and facilitates global knowledge about PPPs. ...
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Interested in expanding your career into PPPs? This episode of APMG Midday Mentors is hosted by Lawire Kirk, Regional Lead APAC at APMG, and features guests James Kinch, Country Manager (Australia) of Training Byte Size, and Maurice Diamond, Lead PPP Training of Training Byte Size. Together they...
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Body of Knowledge:
Appraising PPP Projects
The fiscal feasibility analysis provides two essential outputs.
First, it estimates the fiscal effect of the project in terms of direct and contingent exposures on the public budget. It also projects those effects from different perspectives, providing a comprehensive assessment of governmental...
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In government-pays PPPs, the risk of default by the authority is obviously a private side risk inherent in the strategic decision of investing in a particular country market or in the projects promoted by a particular authority. We basically refer here to credit risk.
This is more an issue in sub-...
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Body of Knowledge:
Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
It is common for the private partner to seek to change its shareholding arrangements and thereby, its owners. Provided that such a change does not increase the risk to the government or diminish the public benefit, it should not be prohibited by the PPP contract. The following circumstances are...
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Body of Knowledge:
Strategy Delivery and Commissioning
This is the phase during which the project finance is drawn down and the construction contractor and subcontractors engaged by the private partner begin construction, testing, and commissioning of the different components of the project according to an implementation schedule. The major...
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It's a momentous occasion for us at APMG – we've recently established a partnership with the World Bank Group (WBG) to create a new certification program for people working with Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).
WGB’s the world’s largest development bank. Its objective is to reduce poverty in...
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Body of Knowledge:
Structuring and Drafting the Tender and Contract
Evaluation criteria
Broadly speaking, there are two main types of processes in terms of evaluation criteria.
Processes based only on price (also referred to as least cost selection) in which the technical factors are evaluated on a pass/fail basis. This is sometimes called an auction; however it...
