Recommendation 11: | The Victorian Government: (a) improve opportunities for parliamentary oversight of public private partnership financial arrangements and commitments; (b) after the contractual arrangements relating to a public private partnership project have been finalised, the responsible Minister and the Department of Treasury and Finance brief the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee on the details; and (c) advise Parliament when significant variations are made to a PPP contract, beyond the initial contractual arrangements. |
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Recommendation 12: | That: (a) prior to tenders being submitted for public private partnership projects, agencies should ensure applicants are aware of the limits of what will and will not be considered as commercial in confidence in relation to PPP contracts; and (b) in determining whether a claim for commercial confidentiality is justified, the onus of proof should be with the tenderer, who should be required to substantiate that disclosure would be harmful to their commercial interests. |
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