Section 61, The Public-Private Partnership Act, 2010

Where a PPP Agreement is negotiated without using theprocedures set out in sections 45 to 59, a contracting authority shall– (a) undertake or commission a pre-feasibility study and a feasibility study, in accordance with section 42; (b) except for an agreement negotiated under paragraph (c) of section 60, cause a notice, of its intention to commence negotiations in respect of the agreement, to be published in the prescribed manner; (c) engage in negotiations with as many persons as the contracting authority considers capable of carrying out the PPP Project, as circumstances permit; and (d) establish evaluation criteria against which proposals shall be evaluated and ranked.