If an agency receives an unsolicited proposal from a private party addressing a service requirement identified by that party, the proposal will be assessed for priority against the relevant agency's strategic plan and the South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program. If the proposal is considered by the agency to be a priority, it will be progressed either:
• within this framework in the same manner as agency-generated outputs or
• pursuant to an exclusive mandate to analyse the project's feasibility. (For further detail on exclusive mandates, refer to appendix 1 of the framework).
Any unsolicited proposal seeking to place any risks, costs or payment obligations on government must, if pursued, be subject to a competitive bidding process to ensure that it represents a value for money outcome to government.
In progressing unsolicited (and all other) proposals, the government will take all reasonable steps to protect genuine Intellectual Property of the private sector. This can be achieved through use of an output based specification during the competitive process.