PPP and Project Preparation

PPP and Project Preparation

Project screening, concept notes, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, risk allocation, business cases and transaction-readiness packs.

When clients come to us

  • A public idea exists but is not prepared to a standard a ministry or financier can assess.
  • A decision is needed on whether to proceed, and on what basis.
  • A PPP option needs analysing against the alternatives, with the risks allocated explicitly.
  • A pipeline of municipal or sector projects needs screening and sequencing.
  • An information memorandum and data room are needed before a market approach.

What the work covers

  • Project identification and screening against policy, fiscal and market tests
  • Problem and options analysis at concept stage
  • Concept notes, project idea notes and investment teaser notes
  • Stakeholder, land, safeguards and institutional mapping at identification stage
  • Pre-feasibility: technical options, demand, high-level costing, risks and go/no-go advice
  • Feasibility: technical, economic, financial, social, environmental and institutional analysis
  • Demand and affordability inputs, including tariff discussion where relevant
  • Risk identification and preliminary risk-allocation matrices
  • Climate, gender and social-inclusion screens on infrastructure and service projects
  • GIS and spatial inputs to site, service-area and vulnerability analysis
  • PPP option analysis, including management contract, affermage, BOT, joint venture, availability-payment and hybrid forms
  • Business-case and value-for-money narrative support
  • Output specifications and performance-standard drafts
  • Procurement strategy for PPP and competitive-dialogue support
  • Information-memorandum and data-room organisation
  • Support to municipal and sector PPP pipelines, including alignment with public investment plans

What you receive

  • A screening note with a documented go or no-go recommendation
  • A concept note or project idea note suitable for internal approval
  • A pre-feasibility study covering options, demand, indicative cost and risk
  • A feasibility study with technical, economic, financial, social, environmental and institutional analysis
  • A preliminary risk-allocation matrix and a business-case narrative
  • A transaction-readiness pack, including output specifications and a structured data room

Professional boundaries

  • Project-preparation support improves the quality and completeness of a project file. It does not guarantee financing, approval, a tender award or an investment return.
  • Full legal close and regulated financial-advisory mandates are delivered with specialist legal and transaction partners where required.
  • The firm never advises both sides of the same transaction.
Next step

Discuss your project

Send a short note of the decision you need to make, the geography, the deadline and any donor or statutory rule that applies. You will get back a scoping note rather than a generic brochure.