Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration established a new Office for Public-Private Partnerships within the state Treasury Department in 2008. The office is "responsible for coordinating, facilitating, and providing financial standardization and accountability for state PPP projects across a variety of sectors, including transportation, educational facilities, energy water/wastewater, corrections, public safety, and information technology."[xlii]
Initiatives include:
• Signing a three-year, $3.2 million contract with KPMG for privatization advisory services
• KPMG providing the state with 12 PPP proposals each year (only a handful will likely be implemented).
At an April 2009 conference of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships, office director Joe Pavona told attendees Michigan is considering a wide range of PPP procurement options, including full concessions (asset leases), shadow tolling, availability payments, design-build, design-build-operate-maintain, and design-build-finance. [ iii]