The purpose of the preliminary assessment stage (stage two) is to provide Cabinet Budget Review Committee with information regarding the service requirement and potential solutions. This information should be sufficient to enable decision-making regarding,
∙ the priority of the potential project for government
∙ the likely affordability of the potential project
∙ given the above and the characteristics of the potential project, whether it is appropriate that the potential project be progressed to the public private partnership business case development stage.