The competition achieved the Treasury's two objectives: to obtain funding at the best available price; and to help get standardised PFI contract terms accepted by potential funders. The success of the competition raises the question whether such a method should be used to obtain funding in all future PFI deals. Some cases lend themselves to it: projects in mature sectors of the PFI, or those that are relatively simple in terms of the risks borne by the contracting parties. Novel or complex projects will be less suitable. In all cases, therefore, a funding competition should be considered-though it will not always be appropriate to use one.