PPP Procurement
Below in Figure 5.5 are the cover and table of contents from the RfQ Jamaica used to shortlist five teams for the Kingston Norman Manley International Airport PPP opportunity.
Figure 5.5: Table of Contents from Kingston Norman Manley International Airport RfQ
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Qualification Criteria
The primary goal of the RfQ phase is to eliminate candidates that are not qualified to implement the project. The qualification criteria must balance the need for high-quality potential partners, with ensuring that there is a suitably large pool of bidders and encouraging innovation and competition. Therefore, the criteria must be tailored to the financial, market and technical parameters of the project, and the minimum size, experience, capacity and other attributes required of a strong private partner. Only in a scenario where it is expected that too many qualified consortia will show interest is it advisable to cap the number of bidders.
The secondary objective of the RfQ phase is to rank candidates, allowing only the best qualified consortia to advance to the next phase. The contracting authority should ensure that the criteria is designed in such a way that they do not automatically select only the largest and most experienced firms, but allow room for newer, more efficient firms to compete.