Course Description
It is widely acknowledged that thorough project preparation and effective contract management are crucial for the success of any Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project. Unlike the traditional arms-length approach to service procurement and project execution, the PPP model fosters a collaborative relationship built on openness and trust between the public and private sectors. Well-conceived and feasible projects attract greater interest from potential investors and showcase the benefits of moving forward to the procurement phase.
This PPP Project Preparation & Contract Management training course is designed to guide you through the best practices for preparing for a PPP project and managing the procurement process. You will learn to identify, assess, and allocate key risks in structuring PPP contracts and explore essential issues for managing these long-term, high-risk agreements. By examining both the commercial landscape and the background of PPPs, this course will deepen your understanding of their role in infrastructure procurement and project success.
This training course will feature:
Selection of a PPP contract type for given project context
What constitutes a sound feasibility approach
How to perform a basic project appraisal
How key risk areas can be managed
Focus on principal ways PPP contracts can be properly managed
What you will achieve
By the end of This training course, participants will be able to:
- Determine project identification, screening and selection
- Address the range of issues in identifying, financing and procurement
- Analyse best practices in conducting financial, economic and technical feasibility studies
- Analyse the principal risk areas and issues common to all PPPs
- Explain the PPP procurement process
- Identify key PPP contract clauses
How the course is delivered
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The daily workshops will be highly interactive and participative. This will involve regular discussions on the whole concept of PPPs, its uses and limitations, and how best to contract manage these high risk (and potential high reward) contracts.
The overall objective of this training course is to help prepare and strengthen the capacity of delegates in the PPP schemes. It also aims to provide the technical and managerial knowledge necessary for the course delegates to plan, structure and implement the PPP projects and contracts effectively and efficiently.
Designed for
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:
- Policy makers
- Senior government personnel
- Director and senior management from private infrastructure/public utility sectors (energy & electricity, water & waste water, transportation (roads, airports, ports, and rail), telecommunications, education, health and municipal services
- Project and contracts personnel in both public and private sectors
- Risk management personnel
- Auditors and Comptrollers
- Professionals who have some experience with infrastructure projects and wish to improve their knowledge and decision-making capacity to enact policies related to PPPs
Daily programme
- Needs and options analysis
- Legal feasibility
- Technical feasibility
- Scoping social/environment safeguards analysis
- Preliminary financial viability including expectations of required Government financial support
- Rationale, aim and motivation for engaging PPP
- Key phases of the PPP project process
- The structure of the PPPs
- Different types of PPPs
- The four levels of preparation and implementation
- Analyse the important factors for the project preparation process
- Public investment delivery model
- Economies of scale and project grouping
- Analysis of cost benefits of a PPP project
- How to get value for money in PPP projects
- Commercialisation potential analysis
- Market potential
- Capacity of assuming long term commitments
- Project identification, risks, sustainability
- Project design: Tender strategy, technical aspects, components, cost estimation, and financing
- Structuring a PPP contracts
- How to avoid common pitfalls
- Importance of project financial and economic analysis
- Understanding and applying payment mechanisms
- Preparing the Project Implementation Plan
- Project Management Arrangements – Various types of agreements and monitoring indicators
- Appointing a PPP project manager and project team (Project Implementation Unit)
- Key roles within the project, including decision-making authorities, and sources and funding for assistance
- Preparing the project plan
- Dealing with main challenges of a PPP project
- The absolute importance of stakeholder consultation and managing the interface
- Risk assessment and analysis
- Going beyond the construction phase to ensure success in Operations
- Hand back of asset upon contract expiry
- MODULE II
- Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Contract Management
- PPP in a international
- competitive market
- Comparison between PPP and
- Privatization
- Different PPP models and
- structures
- PPP Contracts formation
- and termination
- Component of PPP
- contracts
- PPP appraising process and
- evaluating risk
- Importance of PPP framework
- Negotiating PPP contracts
- The Governing law and jurisdiction
- The Process of Force Majeure events
- Where disputes are most likely to arise
- Alternative Dispute resolutions in PPP contracts: Arbitration, mediation, expert-determination
- Strategies
- of risk management in PPP projects
- Delivery
- performance standards in PPP projects
- Performance-based
- models Payment mechanisms in PPP projects
- Resolution
- of dispute and conflicts in PPP
- Events
- triggering termination and contingency planning
- Implementing
- risk-sharing agreements for better risk allocation
- Managing
- relief and compensation events for operational stability
- Structuring
- and negotiating pricing and payment frameworks
- Legal
- and operational implications of warranties and indemnities
- Managing
- intellectual property in public-private projects
- Effective
- use of ‘step-in’ rights in critical scenarios
- Addressing
- and mitigating emerging risks, including unforeseen liabilities
- Building
- and sustaining effective public-private relationships
- Techniques
- for monitoring delivery and managing risks
- Best
- practices for handling change during contract implementation
- Preparing
- for contract expiry and renewal decisions
- Planning
- for asset handover with a focus on quality and sustainability
- Capturing
- lessons learned to inform future PPP projects
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
