Ministries, State departments and parastatals will get a bigger say in selecting firms for public-private partnership (PPP) projects if Parliament approves new proposals to delink the National Treasury's PPP Directorate from reviewing and approving tender evaluation reports.
The contracting authorities, which already undertake the bulk of the PPP tendering process, will have the right to pick winning bidders under proposed amendments to the Public Private Partnerships (PPP) Act.