Public Private Partnerships Act, 2015. Country/Territory Uganda Document type Legislation Date 2015 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Official Gazette 2015. Long titleAn Act to provide for public private partnership agreements; to establish Public Private Partnership Committee and Public Private Partnership Unit; to establish a Project Development Facilitation Fund provide for the functions of contracting authorities, accounting officers, project officers, project teams and evaluation committees; to provide for the role of the private party in a public private partnership; to provide for the management of public private partnerships; to provide for project inception and feasibility studies for public private partnerships; to provide for the procurement of public private partnerships; to provide for the disqualification of bidders and the evaluation of public private partnership bids; to provide for public private partnership agreements and the monitoring of projects; to provide for the bidding methods, procurement procedures and types of public private partnership agreements and for related matters. Subject Agricultural & rural development, Water Keyword Public private partnership (PPP) Business/industry/corporations Dispute settlement Institution Non-governmental entity Contract/agreement Waterworks Geographical area Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations, Least Developed Countries Abstract This Act concerns Public Private Partnership (PPP) and relative agreements between a contracting authority (Ministry, department of Government or any other body established by Government and mandated to carry out a public function) and a private party. This Act shall apply to all public private partnerships and in particular shall apply to the design, construction, maintenance and operation of infrastructure or services including water management facilities, including dams and water storages, water supply and distribution systems, irrigation and drainage systems and sanitation, sewerage and waste management systems and agricultural processing industries. The Act sets out principles to govern the implementation of PPP's, provides with respect to various procedures, and establishes the Public Private Partnerships Committee, the Public Private Partnerships Unit and a Project Development Facilitation Fund. The functions of the Committee include, among other things: (a) to ensure that each project agreement is consistent with the provisions of this Act; (b) to formulate policy on public private partnerships; (c) to ensure that all projects are consistent with the national priorities specified in the Public Private Partnerships Framework Policy. Full text English