Public sector
Launch a PPP program for Municipalities in Jordan
A free 17-page guide · The $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
What this guide is for
Your municipality launches a public-private partnership (PPP) program of small projects at city scale, in parking, street lighting, waste, markets, bus stations, parks, local roads and public buildings, prepared with AI, robotics and tokenization in mind.
The case
Municipalities run the services residents see every day
Most of what residents notice about infrastructure is local: a street light that works, a clean market, a bus station that runs on time and a parking space they can find. Municipalities run those services on tight budgets, and small PPPs let them improve each one with a private partner who invests, builds and operates. This guide invites municipalities in Jordan to launch a PPP program, starting with the projects at home.
The guide
Bring the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Jordan’s cities
Your municipality launches a dedicated PPP program, with a small team, a list of city-scale projects and a set of standard contracts that bring private investment and new technology into local services, beside Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba.
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A municipal PPP team
A small dedicated team that knows how PPPs are prepared, tendered and supervised turns the municipality’s service needs into projects that private partners can finance, build and operate, and it follows each one from the first idea to the end of the contract.
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Small PPPs at city scale
Parking, street lighting, waste collection and sorting, markets, bus stations, parks, local roads and the water and energy retrofit of public buildings can each be delivered as a small PPP, with a partner paid for the service it delivers.
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Bundled projects
PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender under simpler procedures. Street lights across many districts or car parks across several towns can go to market as one project.
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Direct proposals from local companies
Article 15 of PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 lets a company bring its own PPP idea for a public service to government. Local companies that know the city’s streets, markets and buildings can propose projects for its services, and the municipality studies them on their merits.
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A city lab
The municipality tenders a PPP research lab with a one-line brief to run ten small PPP projects a year at up to $100,000 each, such as sensor-led parking, smart street lighting or robotic street cleaning, and it publishes every result, including the failures.
Why municipalities
Municipalities run the services residents see every day
Residents meet infrastructure on their own street, in the lights, the bins, the markets and the car parks their municipality runs. Small PPPs let a municipality improve each of those services with a partner that invests, builds and operates, on contracts sized to a city’s budget.
Where municipalities fit in a PPP
- Needs
- The municipality knows which services fall short, where demand is growing and what residents ask for.
- Assets
- Land, streets, buildings and markets that a private partner can invest in and run.
- Permits
- Permits and approvals that decide how quickly a project of any size can be built.
- Tender
- Small, standard tenders that local and regional companies can bid on, alone or bundled with other projects.
- Supervision
- Measurement of service levels on the street and payment to the partner for the results it delivers.
What changes for municipalities
AI, robotics and tokenization make small projects worth doing. Preparation that once cost too much for a car park or a street-lighting contract can be done by a small team with the right tools. Sensors and robots measure each service as it is delivered, so payments can follow performance, and tokenization lets residents and local investors fund a project in their own city and share in its revenue.
Why a program, and why now
Without a program, a municipality meets each PPP as a one-off and rarely has the team to prepare it. A program gives it a team, standard contracts and a list of projects that can go to market one after another, and it lets similar projects be bundled into one tender. A new idea costs little to test on a small project, and the municipalities that start now will learn fastest and attract the strongest partners.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Municipalities in Jordan for the infrastructure singularity
This free 17-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Most of them will be built in or near a Jordanian city or town and will rely on its streets, permits and services. A municipality that proves a model on one street can repeat it across the whole city, and the next municipality can adopt the same contract.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI lets a small municipal team prepare and supervise projects that once needed outside advisors. It can draft the feasibility report for a car park, compare bids on whole-life cost and read every contract in plain language. Once a service is running, sensors and AI show which car parks are full, which street lights have failed and when each bin needs collecting.
Robotics
Robotics brings city services within reach of small partners. Street-cleaning machines, waste-sorting lines, drones that survey local roads and sensors that find leaks in public buildings let a local company deliver a service with a small team, and their records show the municipality what was cleaned, collected or repaired.
Tokenization
Tokenization lets residents invest in the services they use. A car park, a market or a solar roof on a public building can raise its capital from a few hundred local investors and pay them from its own revenue, and a public registry shows everyone what was built, what it cost and how it performs.
Small PPPs and research labs
A municipality is a natural home for small PPPs, because most city services already come in small pieces. A city lab can test sensor-led parking, smart street lighting or new waste contracts on a few streets, publish every result and carry what works across the whole city, funded by moving 1% of the budget away from inefficient spending.
Unsolicited proposals
Direct proposals bring a municipality ideas from companies that already know its streets and services, prepared at their own cost. The authority can charge the proposer a study fee for each review and a qualifying proposal enters the PPP Registry, while the tender still tests the idea against the market: the proposer can match the best offer, and the winning bidder pays the proposer’s direct study costs. A published list of the city’s needs points proposals at the services residents care about most.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the municipality’s planning and services departments, with a PPP team at its center and the land, streets and buildings the municipality already holds behind it.
- PPP team
- A small team of engineering, legal, finance and procurement staff that prepares, tenders and supervises the municipality’s PPPs.
- Project list
- Parking, street lighting, waste, markets, bus stations, parks, local roads and public buildings, ranked by need and readiness.
- Standard contracts
- Model contracts, output specifications and payment terms that each new project reuses.
- Bundling
- Similar projects below $14.1 million bundled into one feasibility report and one tender under simpler procedures.
- City lab
- A PPP research lab that runs ten small pilots a year at up to $100,000 each and publishes every result.
- Direct proposals
- A published list of the city’s needs and a clear route for companies to propose projects under Article 15.
- Partners
- Lenders, operators, technology companies, universities and other municipalities that share contracts and results.
What the municipality gains
The municipality gains better services for its residents, private investment in assets it could not fund alone and partners paid for the results they deliver. Each project adds standard contracts, data and trained staff that make the next one faster, and each one brings local jobs and local companies with it.
It also gains a place at the front of how cities are run. The first municipalities in the region to run their streets, lights and markets through small PPPs with AI, robotics and tokenized finance will become the models that other cities visit and copy.
Next steps
How a municipality can start
Any municipality in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the staff, land and services the municipality already has.
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Mandate
A decision by the municipal council or committee to launch a PPP program, with its services, its first projects and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named program lead, with engineering, legal, finance and procurement staff drawn from the municipality’s existing departments.
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Pipeline
A list of city services and assets that suit small PPPs, ranked by need and readiness, with similar projects grouped for bundling.
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Contracts
Standard contracts and output specifications for parking, lighting, waste and markets, with data and sensors written in.
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Partners
Local companies, lenders, universities and other municipalities that will bid, finance, measure and share results.
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Pilot
A first small-scale PPP or direct proposal, taken from idea to tender.
Jordan has the projects, a law that accepts unsolicited proposals and rules that make small PPPs simpler to tender. A PPP program gives your municipality better services for its residents and a head start in building the superintelligent infrastructure future in its own streets.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen sections, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for municipalities in Jordan.
Download the guide (PDF)
- 01IntroductionWhy a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.p. 3
- 02The guideBring the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Jordan’s citiesp. 5
- 03Jordan and AqabaAn $86 billion pipeline to start withp. 6
- 04Artificial intelligenceHow AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for municipalities.p. 7
- 05RoboticsHow robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for municipalities.p. 8
- 06TokenizationHow tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for municipalities.p. 9
- 07Small PPPs in parallelWhy many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.p. 10
- 08PPP research labsA lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.p. 11
- 09Unsolicited proposalsHow Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.p. 12
- 10Why municipalitiesMunicipalities run the services residents see every dayp. 13
- 11The programThe program can sit inside the municipality’s planning and services departments, with a PPP team at its center and the land, streets and buildings the municipality already holds behind it.p. 14
- 12AboutAbout Jordan PPP and what it offers.p. 15
- 13Next stepsHow a municipality can start: six first steps.p. 16
Questions
Questions about the guide for Municipalities in Jordan
- What does the guide for Municipalities in Jordan propose?
- Your municipality launches a public-private partnership (PPP) program of small projects at city scale, in parking, street lighting, waste, markets, bus stations, parks, local roads and public buildings, prepared with AI, robotics and tokenization in mind.
- Why should municipalities in Jordan launch a PPP program?
- Municipalities run the services residents see every day. Residents meet infrastructure on their own street, in the lights, the bins, the markets and the car parks their municipality runs. Small PPPs let a municipality improve each of those services with a partner that invests, builds and operates, on contracts sized to a city’s budget.
- Which PPP projects can municipalities in Jordan take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. Most of them will be built in or near a Jordanian city or town and will rely on its streets, permits and services. A municipality that proves a model on one street can repeat it across the whole city, and the next municipality can adopt the same contract.
- How can municipalities in Jordan start a PPP program?
- Any municipality in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the staff, land and services the municipality already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, contracts, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give municipalities in Jordan?
- The municipality gains better services for its residents, private investment in assets it could not fund alone and partners paid for the results they deliver. Each project adds standard contracts, data and trained staff that make the next one faster, and each one brings local jobs and local companies with it.
- Is the guide for Municipalities in Jordan free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as a 17-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
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