Section 52, The Public-Private Partnership Act, 2010

(1) A contracting authority may use a two-stageprocedure when the contracting authority does not consider it to be feasible to describe fully the characteristics of the PPP Project in the initial Request for Proposals. (2) A two- stage procedure shall take the following steps:– (a) a pre-selected bidder may submit suggestions and amendments relating to all aspects of the initial Request for Proposals, including a mark-up of the draft PPP Agreement, on a specified date prior to bid submission (b) the contracting authority shall – (i) review the comments of the preselected bidder on the initial Request for Proposals; (ii) submit the final version of the Request for Proposals to the Council for approval; (iii) issue the final version of the Request for Proposals to the pre-selected bidders; and (iv) after receiving the proposals of bidders in response to the final version of the Request for Proposals, evaluate the technical and financial proposals in accordance with section 55.