SECTION 3.0  Procurement decision

The purpose of this section of the P3 business case is to:

1.  Articulate the project sponsor's procurement objectives, opportunities and constraints;

2.  Clearly describe the traditional project delivery model to be considered in the business case;

3.  Establish a realistic and "market" range of project delivery models for qualitative assessment by the sponsor and to disclose the criteria upon which the delivery models were short-listed by the sponsor;

4.  Describe engagement of P3 market and other stakeholders and present findings from this engagement;

5.  Develop robust qualitative evaluation criteria to assess the range of project delivery models; and

6.  Identify a short-list of project delivery models to be subject to the quantitative assessment.

This section of the P3 business case is important because it:

•  Articulates the criteria on which project delivery options were screened in, including comment on the alignment of the range of project delivery models with the sponsor's project and procurement objectives, opportunities and constraints;

•  Substantiates the market's interest in the project and the critical elements that will make the project a viable P3; and

•  Establishes a shortlist of realistic project delivery models for quantitative assessment.