Firm Description

The Institute for Public-Private Partnerships, Inc. (IP3), established in 1994, provides global training and consulting services to governments and industries in the growing international marketplace of public-private partnership (PPP) modeling, regulation design and implementation, and competitive utility management. Beginning in the early-1990's, countries worldwide began to embrace private sector management and investment models as the primary paradigm for economic growth, investment, and poverty alleviation. In particular, governments were especially keen in attracting long-term private investment, private sector management practices, and technology into a variety of sectors, including telecommunications, energy, transportation, water supply and wastewater treatment, environmental infrastructure, social services, and most recently, information technology. IP3's pioneering consulting and training services in PPP, infrastructure regulation, and competitive utility management has resulted in ground breaking policy and legislative reform in dozens of countries, the completion of scores of projects/transactions, and the training of over 25,000 government, regulatory, utility, and private sector stakeholders worldwide in our Washington, DC courses, online, and in-country customized training programs. Our core competencies in each "practice" area are highlighted below:

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) core competencies

• PPP policy and institutional framework development
• Project identification, screening and selection
• Feasibility analyses (technical, economic, tariff, and project financing)
• Transaction structuring, financing and procurement strategies
• Transaction bid and tender preparation, tendering/procurement assistance, and negotiation
• Public awareness and stakeholder consultation
• Bid evaluation, award, and negotiation
• Performance monitoring, contract compliance and dispute resolution
• PPP service delivery and the poor

Regulation core competencies:

• Policy, legislative, and legal requirements for effective regulation
• Designing regulatory institutions and their financial instruments
• Creating regulatory rules, processes, and procedures
• Public awareness and customer relations programs
• Tariff structuring and subsidy analysis design/options
• Rate case application preparations and strategic reviews
• Competition policy and regulatory reform in key sectors

Competitive Utility Management core competencies:

• Restructuring, commercializing, and corporatizing utilities
• Corporate governance planning and implementation
• Utility financial management, budgeting and investment planning
• Customer service and communication strategies
• Employee redeployment and workforce productivity
• E-government and IT solutions to expand and improve services
• Mergers and acquisition planning

Each practice area is active in the following sectors:

• Energy (generation, transmission and distribution)
• Telecommunications (both new age and traditional telephony, spectrum management, internet, and e-commerce)
• Transportation (roads, railways, mass urban transit, airports & sea ports)
• Environmental infrastructure (water supply, wastewater treatment, solid waste management)
• Municipal infrastructure (solid waste management, urban transportation, parks & recreation, and other general government services)
• Social infrastructure (pension reform, education reform, and health care services)
• Information communications and technology - ICT (e-Government, e-Procurement, and e-Learning)

IP3 prides itself on integrating capacity building and training with specialized consulting services to create successful and sustainable PPP, regulation, and utility reform projects. We believe that successful consulting projects and transactions are measured not only by the advice provided but also by the capacity developed and left behind with our clients. Whether public or private clients, IP3 strives to transfer the tools and know-how to manage the process of PPP, regulation, and utility reform in a sustainable and cost-effective manner. At IP3, we call this the "Virtuous Circle".

In the years since our founding, IP3 has trained over 10,000 officials from 175 countries in a wide range of off-the-shelf, customized, and regional training courses and workshops. Our executive management training programs have assisted hundreds of governments worldwide to plan, implement and monitor PPP programs, create effective regulatory agencies, and improve utility performance in variety of sectors. Our training programs have been conducted in English, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, and Bahasa-Indonesian in scores of countries worldwide. We have always believed that all consulting assignments should contain significant capacity building components and that high standards should be set. To leverage the impact of our training, and to raise the standards of professional development in our industry, IP3 launched in 2003 (in joint sponsorship with the Water, Engineering, and Development Centre of Loughborough University) three professional certification programs:

• Certified Public-Private Partnership Specialist™
• Certified Regulation Specialist™
• Certified Competitive Utility Management Specialist™

These programs were created to accelerate the practical learning requirements of professionals desiring comprehensive understanding and knowledge in the certification fields and to meet the demand of our alumni and peers in the industry. More information on these programs can be found at www.globalcertifications.org.

IP3's training and consulting clients include the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank (IBRD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and hundreds of government agencies, financial institutions, and private organizations worldwide.