About PPP Project Planning Toolkit
Dive into the foundation of effective PPP planning. This section outlines the purpose, goals, and benefits of utilizing the Planning Toolkit in streamlining project preparation and execution.
- The PPP Planning stage includes the Preliminary Study (PS). The toolkit has tools, templates, and checklists that help develop the Preliminary Study.
- A PS is an initial study for a proposed infrastructure provision. A PS is applicable only to a Government-initiated (solicited) PPP.
- A PS provides descriptions of the requirements for the proposed infrastructure provision and its benefits if it is delivered in cooperation with a business entity via the PPP scheme.
- A Government Contracting Agency (GCA) initiates and prepares a PS. A GCA could be the minister/ institution head/ regional head, or State-Owned Enterprise (SOE)/Regional-Owned Enterprise acting as the provider or organiser of infrastructure based on the statutory regulations.
- Any one of these entities, as the GCA, can prepare the PS and disburse a budget for it when they have identified the need for the implementation of the infrastructure provision plan in cooperation with the business entity. The GCA conducts a public consultation along with preparation of the PS.
- The PPP stages of a Government-initiated PPP are planning, preparation, transaction, and management of the PPP agreement /contract. A PS is prepared during the planning stage of the project.
- Ministerial Regulations 7/2023 prescribe the timeline for PS preparation as 1 to 4 months, before the project could progress to the next stage of a pre-feasibility study.
- A PS is also required in the preparation stage when there is a proposal of a presentable PPP and when the project has never been proposed in the list of PPP plan. For a privately-initiated PPP, there is no PS.
- A PS is the output of the planning stage. It helps draw conclusions on and make recommendations on: (a) Issues to be addressed via the proposed infrastructure provision (b) Determination of infrastructure type (c) Determination of the GCA (d) Plan of the PPP partnership form (e) Plan and sources of the financing scheme (f) Schedule plan & stages of the provision.
- The PS and public consultation enable the GCA to decide whether the planned project is suitable for implementation under PPP/ other schemes. If the GCA decides to implement the project via the PPP scheme, it proposes the project for listing in the PPP Book.