Public-private partnerships the way to go

Deputy President William Ruto unveils a plaque to officially launch Phase 1 of Konza Technopolis City at Malili in Makueni County last year. He was accompanied by ICT Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i (now the acting Lands CS) and suspended Lands CS Charity Ngilu. Konza is being built through public-private partnerships. [PHOTO: Standard]

Public private partnerships (PPPs) are major forces behind multi-billion-shilling infrastructural projects in the country. PPPs are arrangements between a contracting authority and a private party.

A contracting authority means a State department, agency, corporation or county government, which intends to have a function undertaken by it performed by a private party.