Ensuring that a PFP meets the public interest requires:
• Ensuring that procuring the project as a PFP is in the public interest and
• After a decision has been made to procure a project as a PFP, ensuring that the procurement process is structured so as to ensure that the project continues to be in the public interest.
To deliver in this regard, when requesting a project to be procured as a PFP the procuring agency must establish to the BCC’s satisfaction that it is in the public interest to procure the project as a PFP. The public interest evaluation will be updated
• Prior to the issue of the call for detailed proposals, with any significant variations reported to BCC
• After finalising the evaluation of the call for detailed proposals and submitted to BCC for consideration
• Prior to Government signing the contract documents, with any significant variations in the public interest evaluation reported to the BCC.