Successful Delivery of Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 133, Issue 12
Abstract
Two common approaches have been used by governments for the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs): a finance-based approach that aims to use private financing to satisfy infrastructure needs, and a service-based approach that aims to optimize the time and cost efficiencies in service delivery. The implementation of PPPs, however, may suffer from legal, political, and cultural impediments. In the United States, the federal government enabled a number of acts to ease the impediments and promote PPPs for infrastructure development. Based on a detailed analysis of PPPs in the United Kingdom and British Columbia, Canada, this paper describes principles that would characterize the implementation of PPPs at the program level (e.g., whether the implementation is successful). The principles pertain to the: availability of a PPP legal framework and implementation units; perception of the private finance objectives, risk allocation consequences, and value-for-money objectives; maintenance of PPPs process transparency; standardization of procedures; and use of performance specifications. Guidelines for successful implementation are explained and discussed in the context of the United States PPPs experience and impediments.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 133 • Issue 12 • December 2007
Pages: 918 - 931
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Received: Apr 4, 2006
Accepted: Jun 1, 2007
Published online: Dec 1, 2007
Published in print: Dec 2007
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