"If the public sector considers the unique features of the PPP procurement model and allows private partners the necessary freedom without taking advantage of them in the area of risk assumptions, then the government has a true alternative for the procurement and provision of the federal infrastructure at its disposal."

Prof. Martin Weber, Partner in the area of Government, Infrastructure & Privatization at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Professor for Public Economic Law at the Technical College Mainz, Germany