Financial resources

3.13  As benchmarking is a planned periodic event within modern PPP contracts, the public body will need to build sufficient levels of support into allocated budgets in advance. Depending on the complexity of the project and the available in-house capability, resource costs for the process, including advisers, could range from less than £10,000 upwards. It will be considerably more if the process is particularly complex and if a failure to agree leads to dispute resolution procedures.