Title: RailCorp Rolling Stock Public Private Partnership - Updated summary of contracts

Language: English

Type: Document

Nature: Contract Agreement, Other PPP Reference

Published: November 2, 2019


Region: East Asia and Pacific

Country: Australia

Sector: Transportation

Topic: Pro-poor

Keywords: Transport Core, Transport

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Document Summary:

This report summarises the main contracts, from a public sector perspective, for the Rolling Stock Public Private Partnership (PPP) project. The original (December 2006) version of this document was prepared by Rail Corporation New South Wales (“RailCorp”) in accordance with the public disclosure requirements of sections 3.7 and 7.1 of the New South Wales Government’s November 2001 Working with Government Guidelines for Privately Financed Projects, and its compliance with these requirements was assessed by the NSW Auditor-General prior to its tabling in Parliament.


Document Details:

The triggers for the preparation of this second, updated summary of the Rolling Stock PPP project’s contracts have been a series of contract amendments and new contracts associated with the financing of the project in February and March 2012. Revised and expanded public disclosure requirements for privately financed “public private partnership” projects in New South Wales are now set out in section 5.2 of the NSW Government’s December 2006 Working with Government Guidelines for Privately Financed Projects, which have been incorporated within the National Public Private Partnership Guidelines adopted by the Council of Australia Governments on 29 November 2008. In accordance with these new guidelines, and also in an effort to assist readers in understanding the project’s current overall contractual structure, this revised summary is not confined to these latest changes to the project, but rather is a comprehensive update of the December 2006 summary as a whole, including coverage of several earlier amendments of the contracts.

In line with the National Public Private Partnership Guidelines and the December 2006 Working with Government Guidelines for Privately Financed Projects, this updated report: Focuses on the project contracts to which the State of NSW and/or RailCorp are parties or which otherwise have a potentially substantive impact on public sector benefits or risks. Other contracts solely between private sector organisations are referred to only to the extent necessary to explain the public sector’s exposure. Does not disclose any matters which are expressly confidential under the contracts or any other “commercial in confidence” provisions of the contracts. The Guidelines define the latter as any provisions revealing the contractors’ financing arrangements, cost structures, profit margins, “base case” financial model(s), intellectual property or “any matter whose disclosure would place the contractors at a substantial commercial disadvantage in relation to other contractors or potential contractors, whether at present or in the future”.

This report should not be relied upon for legal advice and is not intended for use as a substitute for the contracts. It is based on the project’s contracts as at 2 March 2012. Subsequent amendments of or additions to these contracts, if any, are not reflected in this report.

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Updated: October 25, 2021