Benchmarking Public-Private Partnerships Procurement 2017 is a joint product of the World Bank Public-Private Partnerships Cross-Cutting Solutions Area (PPP CCSA) and World Bank Global Indicators Group. It is housed under the Benchmarking Public Procurement (BPP) project. It was prepared by a team led by Tania Ghossein under the general direction of Federica Saliola and Augusto Lopez Claros. Members of the core team included Mikel Tejada Ibañez, Nasser Alreshaid, Khasankhon Khamudkhanov, Zeina Traboulsi, and Helene Candice Larroque. Fernanda Ruiz-Nuñez was the task team leader for this activity.
The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) cofinanced the report. The team would like to recognize in particular the active involvement and support of Laurence Carter and Clive Harris of the PPP CCSA. The team would also like to thank our many other colleagues at the World Bank Group for their valuable guidance: Daniel Alberto Benitez, Enzo de Laurentiis, Jeffrey John Delmon, Victoria Hilda Rigby Delmon, Felipe Goya, Junglim Hahm, Jay-Hyung Kim, Melissa Marie Johns, Cledan Mandri-Perrott, Rui Monteiro, Mark M. Moseley, Michael Opagi, Anand Kumar Srivastava, Shyamala Shukla, and Satheesh Kumar Sundararajan.
The team is indebted to the following individuals for pro bono feedback and guidance at various stages of the project, in particular during the development of the survey instrument: Richard Abadie and Kylee J. Anastasi (Pricewaterhouse Coopers), Walid Abdelwahab and Fida Rana (Islamic Development Bank), James Ballingall (Infrastructure UK), David Baxter (IP3), Christopher Carrigan (George Washington Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration), Deborah DeMasi (George Washington Law School), Ed Farquharson (European PPP Expertise Centre), John Forrer (George Washington Business School and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration), Jacques Gansler (University of Maryland School of Public Affairs), Stephen Gaull (Millennium Challenge Corporation), José Luis Guasch (former World Bank), Jonathan Halpern (Georgetown University), Ian Hawkesworth (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Michael Klein (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies), Andrew J. Kline (American University School of Public Administration), Lawrence Martin (University of Central Florida), Andrés Rebollo (K-Infrastructure), Marcos Siqueira (Radar PPP), James Stewart (KPMG), and David Van Slyke (Maxwell School of Public Administration).
The team is grateful to the Georgetown University Law Center and McCourt School of Public Policy, the George Washington University Law School, and the American University Washington College of Law for organizing an externship program for students to conduct research for the project. The team would like to thank for their invaluable help and support all the students who assisted in the data collection and research process throughout the project under the team members' supervision: Adetoun Latifat Adetona, Alexander Arbour, Ananthi Bharadwaj, Brian Feetham, Siming Fu, Estrella Garces Dura, Mengxi Jin, Maria Isabel Laluna, Yarissa Molina, Yusi Sun, Angelica Toro Botero, and Jingchen Zhou. The team would also like to recognize the support received from Komal Murli Agarwal from the University of Chicago and Zichao Wei from the PPP CCSA.
The Benchmarking PPP Procurement online database is managed by Vinod Kumar Vasudevan Thottikkatu, supported by Andres Baquero Franco, Kunal Patel and Hashim Zia.
The report's media and outreach strategy is managed by Nadine Ghannam. The team includes Priyanka Ripley and Lai Wei. The outreach strategy plan is implemented in close coordination with Indira Chand and communications colleagues throughout the World Bank Group network.
The report was edited and designed by a team at Base Three LLC, led by Dania Kibbi and Marianne Siblini.
Benchmarking PPP Procurement 2017 would have not been possible without the generous contributions of a network of more than 500 local PPP legal experts, private sector operators, academics, government officials, and other professionals routinely administering or advising on PPP procurement processes in the 82 economies surveyed. The names of those wishing to be acknowledged individually are listed at the end of the report and are made available on the Benchmarking Public Procurement (BPP) website at http://bpp.worldbank.org.
Funding for this publication was provided by PPIAF. PPIAF, a multi-donor trust fund housed in the World Bank Group, provides technical assistance to governments in developing countries. PPIAF's main goal is to create enabling environments through high-impact partnerships that facilitate private investment in infrastructure. For more information, visit www.ppiaf.org