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PPP for Sustainable Development Goals: Still Untapped Potential journal article

Iryna Zapatrina, Anna Shatkovska

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 19 (2024), Issue 1, Page 5 - 13

Recently, attention to the issue of extending the role of public-private partnership (PPP) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has significantly increased. There are several reasons for this: a serious lag behind the planned indicators for achieving the SDGs, largely due to the unsatisfactory state of life support infrastructure in countries of developing economies; a constantly widening infrastructure gap; and the insufficient use of private businesses to create the infrastructure critical to achieving the SDGs. To ensure the active participation of private businesses in this process, new institutional mechanisms are needed. Some of these mechanisms, providing for the assessment of compliance of projects with the SDGs, have already been created and are actively promoted for the implementation of PPP projects. This article contains an analysis of these mechanisms and recommendations for incorporating new approaches to assessing the sustainability of businesses interested in implementing infrastructure projects of public interest into the PPP process, based on the principles laid down in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and European Sustainability Reporting Standards. Keywords: Public-Private Partnership; Sustainable Development Goals; Infrastructure; Sustainability Reporting; Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive; European Sustainability Reporting Standards.




E-Procurement for PPPs and Concessions: journal article

Current Trends and Opportunities

Bruno de Cazalet, Iryna Zapatrina

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 16 (2021), Issue 2, Page 131 - 150

Recently, also due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue of using e-procurement is becoming more and more relevant for all countries around the world, and especially for EU Member States implementing the requirements of the Directives on public procurement. The substantial advantages of the use of electronic procedures for public procurement for reduction of tender costs and better prices, the possibility to avoid misuse, collusion and corruption, led some countries to explore opportunities to adapt the traditional e-procurement experience for public-private partnership (PPP) and concession tenders. Today, the regulation in this field is practically absent and the experience is very limited. This article presents: an analysis of the situation regarding current regulation, experience in electronic PPP procurement implementation, and trends; the peculiarities of PPP procurement compared to traditional public procurement; the difficulties related to PPP procurement as e-procurement; and the recommendations of authors on the use of electronic procurements for PPPs and concessions based on the peculiarities of a project implemented using relevant mechanisms. Keywords: public-private partnership; PPP; public procurement; electronic procurement; e-procurement; digitalisation



Opinion ∙ Unsolicited Proposals for PPPs in Developing Economies journal article

Iryna Zapatrina

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 14 (2019), Issue 2, Page 118 - 128

One of the features of the legal regulation quality in the field of PPP is the interest of business in the implementation of infrastructure projects using this mechanism. At the initial stage of the PPP development, this interest is expressed in the active participation of business in competitions for the implementation of PPP projects and / or in the preparation of unsolicited proposals (USPs). At the next stage, in the number of successful PPP projects. In conditions when the public authorities do not make efforts to structure PPP projects, it is business who takes the initiative by starting the preparation and submission of unsolicited proposals. The attitude to such proposals by the public authorities and the expert community is very different. In a number of countries, including Ukraine, there are many discussions about the expediency of USPs and the approaches that should be used when considering them. This article presents an analysis of various points of view regarding unsolicited proposals; an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of USPs compared with the proposals prepared on the initiative of public authorities; the author’s observations regarding the potential of using this mechanism to achieve the public interest and recommendations on how some of the problems existing in this area could be resolved. Keywords: Public-Private Partnership (PPP); PPP proposals; Unsolicited Proposals (USP); Infrastructure Projects, Public Interest.



State Support under PPP journal article

New Challenges in the Context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Iryna Zapatrina

European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 4, Page 326 - 337

In recent years, the attitude toward the Public-Private Partnership (PPP), its role in infrastructure development and in overcoming inequalities in the world is constantly changing. New challenges, in particular those related to the approval of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030, require the use of new approaches to the implementation of projects involving private business. Completely new models of public-private partnership are emerging, for example, the ‘People First PPPs’ actively promoted by the UNECE. All these circumstances break the longstanding understanding of the role of public authorities, private business and the society in the framework of PPPs in relation to ensuring sustainable development in the world and require the expansion of rights and responsibility to people of partners in PPP projects, including for the achievement of the national indicators of SDGs. One of the important tasks in this area is the improvement of approaches to State support under PPP. To resolve this task a revision / clarification of the forms of such support as well as its principles and conditions should be provided. This paper analyses the problems that exist in this area in the transition-economy countries based on the experience of Ukraine and contains the author’s recommendations on how some of these problems could be resolved. Keywords: Public-Private Partnership (PPP); State support under PPP; State aid; People First PPPs; State guarantees under PPP; Availability Payments.


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