Recognizing the skills needed for complex transactions

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.