Public Private Partnerships and Public Procurement

Abstract

ublic Private Partnerships (PPPs) rarely get good press, and public opinion is quick to condemn a PPP that does not succeed as a failure of the concept itself. Perhaps it is because, as Tony Harris, one of the staunchest critics of PPPs, once observed ' good news stories receive little attention in public . The private infrastructure projects which appear less credible get rather more attention' (Harris, 1998:11). His successor as NSW Auditor-General, Bob Sendt, admitted that 'the public -and possibly the political -mood has certainly turned against PPPs as a result of the Cross City Tunnel' (Sendt, 2006:3).