Are PPPs a form of funding or procurement?

The business dictionary defines private-public partnerships (PPPs) as “the involvement of private enterprise (in the form of management expertise and/or monetary contributions) in the government projects aimed at public benefit”.

This definition provides two dimensions, PPP is a form of public sector project funding by the private sector and it’s also a means of public sector service delivery.

The report on Zimbabwe National Revenue Authority’s (Zinara) Plumtree-Harare-Mutare highway rehabilitation deal that resulted in an arrangement involving SA’s Group Five raised State Procurement Board (SPB) eyebrows.

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