This Guidelines aims to prevent delays associated with safeguard concerns in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) process. These delays arise from some implementing agencies’ limited resources and capacity to review all safeguard laws, decrees, orders, issuances, rules, and regulations requiring integration in infrastructure and development projects, and limited understanding on how the safeguards requirements affect the various phases of delivering a PPP project (development, review and approval, procurement and implementation).

Visit Manila Water's website for more information. 

See also Manila Water Concession Agreement. 

For more information about this sector, please visit Public–Private Partnerships in Water and Sanitation.

Asian Development Bank

Philippine Bidding Documents (As Harmonized with Development Partners) - Procurement of Infrastructure Projects, Government of the Republic of the Philippines, 4th edition, December 2010. 

Tracking Number: Phillipine_Bidding_Documents.doc

PPP Manual for Local Government Units (LGUs) - Developing Public-Private Partnerships in Local Infrastructure and Development Projects, Public-Private Partnership Center, 2012.

- Volume 1: Understanding PPP Concepts, and Framework

- Volume 2: Developing Public-Private Partnerships in Local Infrastructure and in Development Projects

- Volume 3: Utilizing LGU PPP Project Templates and Bid Documents

Related Information: 

Draft guidance on early stage development of PPP in health sector in the Philippines - including guidance on developing pre-feasibility and feasibility studies.

For consultation

Sample bulk supply Agreement (BOT) for water

Sample Agreement developed by Castalia for PEGR (a joint initiative between the Governments of Australia and the Philippines)

National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)

Simple and clearly drafted agreement – could be used for civil or common law jurisdiction.  Developed to be in accordance with Republic Act No. 6957 (BOT Law of the Philippines).  Specifications and performance standards clear.

The Public-Private Partnership Law Review, Chapter 12: Philippines, by Marievic G Ramos-Añonuevo and Arlene M Maneja, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan, Law Business Research, The Law Reviews, April 2015

This guidebook offers readers a guide for the development of a public-private partnership (PPP) approach in pharmacy services through six simple, customizable steps. These are:

Mandaluyong City (fig. 1) is the smallest city of the cities in Metro Manila, with an area of only 12 square kilometres and a population of over 278,000 people. A public market was located in the heart of Mandaluyong City on a 7,500 square metre area along Kalentong Road, a main transit route. In 1991, the market was destroyed in a major fire in large part because most of the structure was made of wood. As a temporary answer for the displaced vendors, the government allowed about 500 of them to set up stalls along the area’s roads and sidewalks.