9.4 The Technical Bureau Role in Following Up the Joint Projects

The Technical Bureau role is limited in respect of the direct monitoring. Its role shall be limited to "follow up" the projects through the completion reports and information about the project progress. The Technical Bureau shall review and evaluate the reports in terms of the parties' compliance with the PPP contract based on the information, documents and statements submitted by the Federal Entity and/or the project company in its reports. In addition, it shall evaluate the performance of the joint projects and prepare periodic reports on them to draw the learned lessons, focusing on the parties' compliance with the contract clauses and the effect of these projects on the public treasury and the society members.

The Technical Bureau follow-up of the PPP projects shall not make it, in any way, responsible for the PPP contract implementation because this responsibility shall be assumed solely by the relevant Federal Entity. Thus, the Technical Bureau representation in the Steering Committee is only to enable it to carry out this evaluative role.

The Technical Bureau shall receive from the Steering Committee, as set out above, the monitoring reports relating to the PPP project on a periodic and regular basis during the preparation phase and the first two years of the operation phase, and on an annual basis thereafter. The Technical Bureau shall be entitled to request any information, documents or reports from the project company. In light of such reports and information, it shall monitor the PPP project implementation. It may express its opinion and provide notes to the concerned Federal Entity and the cabinet, when necessary. The Technical Bureau shall prepare annual reports for the Cabinet on the joint project program and the status of the implemented PPP projects.

The Technical Bureau shall follow up the PPP projects indirectly through submitting the Cabinet suggestions and recommendations for developing and motivating the PPP to, including suggestions to enact legislations promoting the PPP, and training all the federal government employees concerned with the PPP contracts by organizing workshops and conferences for developing their abilities to be able to understand and keep up with the PPP projects and building a qualified staff.