Minimum Criteria for Evaluating Commercial or Contractual Change

In considering likely or proposed material commercial and/or contractual changes to a PPP project deed, Government entities and NSW Treasury should, at a minimum, take into account:

•  value for money

•  the benefits and costs of the changes to Government and the private party

•  impact on the state budget and project affordability

•  the impact on the exposure, allocation and management of risks

•  avoiding the creation of undesirable precedents

•  continuing viability of the project

•  external market forces, and

•  for PPPs which are joint venture arrangements, what was communicated to the Treasurer in respect of the arrangement in support of the request for approval under the GSF Act.