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I. Executive Summary and Recommendation
This item will include the final conclusion concerning the project’s adequacy as well as a description of the appropriateness of moving forward to the next stage (full appraisal). Alternatively, in the case of insufficient available information, a list of...
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Case Study – The Reliance Rail Rolling Stock Project, Australia
Reliance Rail was Australia’s largest PPP project when it was put to market in 2005-06 at Australian Dollar (AUD) 3.6 billion, with a capital requirement of AUD 2.35 billion. The contract required the design, construction, and...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
This chapter is designed to introduce the PPP Guide, the Body of Knowledge (BoK) that provides readers with a general overview of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). It will also introduce some of the basic features and characteristics of PPPs.
PPPs are one way to procure infrastructure and...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
PPP is regarded as a method for procuring and delivering both public assets[1] (new assets or upgrades of existing assets) and public services.
This section will propose a broad definition of PPPs to capture the sense of the PPP concept as a means to procure assets, procure and deliver services,...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
PPPs are a contractual means to deliver public assets and public services. PPP contracts include those intended to develop and manage new infrastructure, contracts to undertake significant upgrades to existing infrastructure (these are called infrastructure PPPs), and those under which a private...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
This PPP Guide focuses on PPPs as a method for procuring infrastructure development and management on the basis of private finance, as introduced in box 1.3. The definition of a private finance PPP provided in this PPP Guide implies a number of features which need to be present in a PPP contract to...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
Important note: “Infrastructure” is used in this PPP Certification Guide in the broad sense. This includes not only complete systems or facilities with significant civil works, but also equipment (for example, rolling stock for rail) and plants (independent power producers, wastewater treatment...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
Traditional procurement of infrastructure: public finance and public management. Build and Design, and Build contracts.
Public works and public infrastructure are traditionally financed by the government. The source of funds for such traditional procurement is the public budget[11].
The public...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
Design, Build, Operate and Maintain (DBOM)
There are some contracts which are financed by the government against the budget (such as a conventional procurement) but in which the selected contractor will carry out the construction works, future operations, and maintenance....
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
Contracts for the procurement of services or management of existing infrastructure can be divided into two categories.
“At-risk” long-term management or service contracts that can be regarded as PPPs (these are service PPPs, not DBFOM contracts); and
Contracts that are regarded as conventional O...
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
Privatized Companies and Companies operating in a liberalized and regulated market — “Regulated Investor owned utilities”.
There is often confusion between privatization and PPPs (especially with user-pays PPPs). But there is a clear difference between these two forms of private sector engagement....
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
This section provides information regarding the following:
Variations or types of PPPs; and
Nomenclature issues – explaining the various names that are used for contracts that may be regarded as PPPs.
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Body of Knowledge:
PPP Introduction and Overview
Previous sections have introduced the main variations and types of PPPs. The most relevant classification has been explained extensively, that is, user-pays versus government-pays PPPs. This and other variations and types of PPPs that consider other factors (ownership, scope, and so on) are shown...
