4.4. Procurement Stage

The capacities required at the procurement stage would include a thorough understanding of fairness, equity, transparency and administration aspects of the procurement procedures to be followed. PPPs being an equitable partnership between the public and private sectors need to ensure sufficient capabilities in both the parties. Hence along with the practitioners and policy makers, the private sector entities would also need to possess required capacities in understanding and abiding by the requirements of the PPP procurement processes.