In addition to developing a reference project, the agency should develop a public private partnership project. The public private partnership project is the agency's best estimate of the most efficient private sector solution to satisfy the output specification. The development of the public private partnership project is akin to the routine competitor analyses undertaken by private sector firms.
The public private partnership project should be subject to all legislative and other lawful constraints that a private sector party would need to observe, but not to any other agency level policies or procedures. By removing agency level procurement constraints, it should be possible to identify some (but not all) areas of potential private sector innovation.