Departments will use their existing strategic planning and service review programs to identify the need for specific service developments. If the expected net present value of a strategic service priority will exceed a whole-of-life project cost of $100 million, then the Department must notify the Department of Infrastructure and Planning. The Strategic Infrastructure Procurement Division of Department of Infrastructure and Planning, with whom responsibility for the public private partnership policy and the framework sits. will then assist the agency to identify the initial scoping and output requirements of the project. The portfolio minister may write to Cabinet Budget Review Committee seeking to exempt from the framework a project which lies above the threshold, or include a project that lies below the threshold, having first consulted with the Deputy Premier, the Minister for Infrastructure and Planning, and the Treasurer.
Any unsolicited proposal will be assessed for priority against existing planning frameworks.