Question 8 of the PPP Green Paper
Question In your experience, are non-national operators guaranteed access to private initiative PPP schemes? In particular, when contracting authorities issue an invitation to present an initiative, is there adequate advertising to inform all the interested operators? Is the selection procedure organised to implement the selected project genuinely competitive? |
Main views of stakeholders • Broad agreement exists that non-national operators are guaranteed access to private initiative PPP schemes and that adequate advertising is provided to inform all interested operators about such schemes. |
A large majority of stakeholders believe that non-national operators are guaranteed access to private initiative PPP schemes and that adequate advertising is provided to inform all interested operators about such schemes. Some contributors argue that the problem of access to private initiatives for non-national operators is not a real one, as normally non-national operators are not interested in such projects: two contributors explain that usually enterprises operate abroad through local subsidiaries. Some contributors claim that private initiative projects are extremely rare in the water sector. One large association contends that there are no examples of private PPP initiatives in Germany.
On a more general note, some contributors say that private initiative PPPs tend to be less rigorously scrutinised and are not subject to the same degree of competition as ordinary tenders, which they say favours corruption and causes high costs.