The JCT produce standard form building contracts and guidance notes to suit all projects and procurement options.

FIDIC has developed its standard forms of contract for use between employers and contractors on international construction projects.

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements where the public and private sectors both bring their complementary skills to a project, with varying levels of involvement and responsibility, for the purpose of providing public services or projects. They are characterised by the following:

As governments turn to the private sector to provide services once delivered by the public sector, they must learn new skills. An increasingly common way to provide the new capacities needed is to establish public-private partnership units—as new agencies or as special cells within a cross-sectoral ministry such as finance or planning. Making the right choices on what roles such units play, where they are located, and how conflicts of interest are managed is critical in their success. This Note reviews the experience.

In this Presidential Regulation the following definitions apply:
1. Minister/Institution Head means the leader of the ministry/institution for whom the scope, duties and responsibilities cover the infrastructure sector as regulated in this Presidential Regulation.
2. Regional Head means the governor of a provincial region, or a district head of a district region, or a mayor of a town.

Handshake, International Finance Corporation's (IFC's) quarterly journal on public-private partnerships (PPPs), Issue # 13, March 2014. This issue of Handshake focuses on PPPs in the power sector. It brings diverse expert voices together to discuss how to increase access to energy in developing countries. Features on hydropower and renewables together with examples from Africa and Latin America provide an up-to-the-minute look at one of the most important and rapidly evolving sectors today.

This book provides an overview of dedicated PPP units in OECD countries, including case studies covering: the State of Victoria (Australia), Germany, Korea, South Africa (an OECD enhanced engagement country), and the United Kingdom. It examines the functions and locations of dedicated PPP units, the role they play in the procurement process and the lessons learned for other countries that have already established or are considering establishing a dedicated PPP unit.

European PPP Expertise Centre (EPEC), March 2014

By Emilia Istrate and Robert Puentes, Brookings Institution, December 2011. 

In coordination with EPEC Members, the EPEC team has conducted reviews of institutional frameworks for 24 EPEC Members (set out in ‘Unit Reports’) a number of which are publicly available on the EPEC website. A central PPP Unit was identified in 18 of the 24 institutional frameworks reviewed. The purpose of this report is to draw collectively from these Unit Reports in order to identify trends and lessons learnt. It is based on information that was correct at the date of publication for each Unit Report, i.e.