This toolkit for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in roads and highways aims to assist transport sector policy makers in low- and middle-income countries in implementing procedures to promote private sector participation and financing in the development of their road and highway sector. The Toolkit is presented in six modules, each presenting a specific subject matter for the development of PPP.

John T. Hodges Georgina Dellacha, Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), Working Paper No. 1, 2007, provides a discussion on how different countries manage unsolicited proposals.

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The National Treasure of the Republic of South Africa issued a Practice Note on Unsolicited Proposals for use with PPPs and unsolicited projects or concepts (2009).

This policy guideline is a revision of the policy dated September 1997, issued by the predecessor of the Agency, namely the South African Roads Board.

It has been drafted in order to provide the private sector with a framework within which Unsolicited Proposals (“the Proposals”) should be prepared. It also explains how Proposals will be dealt with by the Agency, and lays down procedures which will be followed in order to stimulate a competitive environment, ensure transparency, and offer the public protection from the possibility of monopolistic practices and exploitation.

The legal regulations for providing public infrastructure through the Concessions Program are contained in several legal texts, but are found mainly in the Concessions Law and its accompanying Regulations. These regulate adjudication, execution, repair or maintenance of state public works given in concession.

The process to manage unsolicited proposals is also contained in the main Concessions Law and the process details are found in secondary legislation .

The legislative recommendations deal with matters that it is important to address in legislation specifically concerned with privately financed infrastructure projects. They do not deal with other areas of law that, as discussed in the notes to the legislative recommendations, also have an impact on privately financed infrastructure projects.

Governments worldwide have been increasingly looking to the private sector to fill the growing gap between the demand and supply of infrastructure services. As a result, private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in developing countries increased dramatically in the past fifteen years, accounting for more than $850 billion in committed new investment between 1990 and 2005.

Guide for Implementing Unsolicited Proposals