These Guidelines aims to facilitate a clearer understanding of the government’s requirements and establish a cohesive link among all relevant issuances for an easier adaptation of procurement rules and prevention of avoidable delays in the processing of unsolicited proposals.
The Guidelines for Unsolicited Proposals describes how the Government evaluates submissions and, if appropriate, determines the process for reaching contractual agreement on their implementation in order to meet the Government’s principles of acting in the public interest, delivering value for money, and achieving appropriate delivery.
The key objectives of the unsolicited proposals program are to:
The unsolicited proposals guidelines for more details on the three stages of the unsolicited proposal stage.
The note presents a fresh perspective on unsolicited proposals, providing provide guidance to decision-makers on how best to incorporate unsolicited bids into their infrastructure development regimes – and that it will lead to the resilient, sustainable and inclusive infrastructure that the world needs to prosper far into the future.
The purpose of these Guidelines is to define the procedures for the preparation, evaluation, selection, and procurement of Public-Private Partnerships initiated as Unsolicited Proposals.
Alberta’s Unsolicited Proposal (USP) Framework and Guideline (Framework) is intended to ensure that projects initiated as USPs follow similar principles as the publicly initiated Public-Private Partnership (P3) projects during project development, procurement, and implementation.
The Model Legislative Provisions and the Legislative Guide update, expand and replace two earlier texts prepared by UNCITRAL, namely the Legislative Guide on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects (2000) and the Model Legislative Provisions on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects (2003).
The Model Legislative Provisions and the Legislative Guide update, expand and replace two earlier texts prepared by UNCITRAL, namely the Legislative Guide on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects (2000) and the Model Legislative Provisions on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects (2003).
The Challenges and Opportunities of USPs
What was the rationale and purpose for the Policy Guidelines? What are USPs and how do they differ from publicly-initiated PPPs? What are the challenges and opportunities of USPs?