Situation
To attract P3 consortium partners (developers, investors, contractors and service professionals), Texas needed a dedicated institutional framework designed to manage and guide programs and projects.
Result
Husch Blackwell assisted the Texas Infrastructure Council with drafting new legislation to create the P3 Center of Excellence. The Center will enable greater use of the underutilized financing potential of P3s created by the Texas Legislature in 2011 to address public infrastructure needs. It will also provide best practice processes related to the procurement of infrastructure through public-private partnerships and the development of a strategic pipeline of infrastructure projects.