Smart PPP Management: Emerging Technologies, AI-Enabled Appraisal, Smart Contracts & Lifecycle Monitoring

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Manage PPP projects across their lifecycle using emerging technologies such as AI, data analytics, GIS
  and satellite data, IoT, and digital platforms
• Use AI tools in the PPP appraisal process, including feasibility screening, risk assessment, and
  value-for-money analysis
• Handle PPP contracts in a smart way, using AI-assisted review, obligation tracking, and digital contract
  management
• Monitor PPP projects across the whole contract period using KPIs, dashboards, and early-warning
  indicators
• Apply sound judgement, data security, and human oversight when using AI in PPP decisions

Day 1: Managing PPP Projects with Emerging Technologies

• PPP lifecycle refresher: identification, appraisal, structuring, procurement, construction, and operations
• Roles of the PPP unit, project sponsor, and contract management team
• Emerging technologies in PPP management: AI and generative AI, data analytics, GIS and satellite data, IoT, digital twins, and blockchain
• Digital project management: planning, risk and stakeholder tracking, and reporting

Day 2: Use of AI Tools in PPP Appraisal

• Project screening, prioritisation, and feasibility assessment
• AI-assisted risk identification and risk allocation matrices
• Value-for-money and affordability analysis; reviewing financial models
• Writing effective prompts and validating AI outputs against source data

Day 3: Handling PPP Contracts in a Smart Way

• Key PPP contract clauses: payment mechanisms, change in law, force majeure, step-in, termination, and
  disputes
• AI-assisted clause extraction, contract comparison, and risk flagging
  Obligation registers and automated reminders for contract milestones
• E-procurement and digital bid evaluation
• Blockchain and smart contracts: realistic use cases and limitations

Day 4: Monitoring PPP Projects Across the Whole Contract Period

• Monitoring through construction, operations, and handback
• Performance regimes, KPIs, and payment deductions
• Data sources: sensors, drones, satellite imagery, and reporting systems
• Dashboards, early-warning indicators, and managing variations and renegotiation

Day 5: Integration Workshop and Responsible Use of AI

• Responsible use of AI in PPP: data confidentiality, bias, explainability, and human oversight
• Building a digital roadmap and capacity plan for the PPP unit
• Workshop: teams prepare and present a Smart PPP management plan covering appraisal, contracts, and monitoring for a case project

5 days

Course Completion Certificate by Network Binary

• PPP unit and project preparation teams
• Project managers and contract managers on PPP projects
• Procurement, finance, and risk professionals involved in PPP appraisal
• Public-sector planners and policy advisers
• Monitoring and performance management staff

• Basic understanding of project management or public procurement
• Familiarity with Excel is beneficial
• Prior AI experience is not required; PPP basics are refreshed on Day 1