This Report only touches briefly on the complexity of actual procurements and transactions. Private parties will employ specialist and experienced staff and advisors to develop multiple opportunities. Ye t for the public counterparty, involved staff may only experience one infrastructure procurement project in their career. Often their responsibility for delivering a project will be an addition to their current workload rather than a separate assignment. As a result, they may become overwhelmed by the volume and complexity of the process.
Recognizing the complexity of transactions and properly resourcing the procurement teams goes a long way toward a successful procurement.