This section provides the government project team and sponsoring agency with guidance on the deliverables to be included as part of the submission to Cabinet Budget Review Committee and Cabinet. It should be noted that the guidance provided in this section is indicative only and the final format for submission should be considered on a project-by-project basis.
A suggested contents for a public private partnership business case is as follows:
1. Executive summary
2. Business profile
3. Output specifications
■ Outcomes
■ Services
■ Outputs
4. Reference project development
5. Public private partnership options development
■ Services
■ Infrastructure assets
■ Related non-core services
■ Public private partnership models
■ Risk allocation
■ Qualitative comparative analysis
■ Commercial structure
Payment mechanism
Revenue composition
■ Legislative/regulatory considerations
For project delivery
Overall government context
6. Market sounding
7. Public interest assessment
8. Environmental, cultural heritage, native title and other specialist studies
9. Employee, employment and skills development assessment
10. The public sector comparator
■ Raw public sector comparator
■ Risk analysis
11. The partnership model
12. Value for money assessment
■ Qualitative assessment
■ Quantitative assessment
13. Project delivery
■ Project management requirements
■ Resources and organisation for the binding bid process
■ Timetable
■ Post-contract award management
14. Conclusion and recommendation
Appendices
Detailed output specifications
Detailed risk matrix
Public sector comparator model and assumptions
Partnerships model and assumptions
Supporting documents