This presentation by Peter LIVESEY was made at the 7th Meeting on Public-Private Partnerships held on 17-18 February 2014. Find more information at http://www.oecd.org/gov/budgeting/ppp.htm
2. Is PPP of any kind the right solution?
1. There must be a need for investment. A major
capital investment programme, requiring effective
management of risks associated with construction and
delivery.
2. It needs to fit with a PPP approach. The service
needed is appropriate, allowing the public sector to
define its needs as service outputs that can be
adequately contracted for and where risk allocation
between public and private sectors can be clearly made
and enforced.
3. 3. Can you price what you are buying? The nature of
the assets and services identified as part of the scheme,
as well as the associated risks, are capable of being
costed on a whole-of-life, long-term basis.
4. Is it large enough to make financial sense? The
value of the project is sufficiently large to ensure that
procurement costs are not disproportionate.
5. Do you understand what you are buying? The
technology and other aspects of the sector are stable,
and not susceptible to fast paced change.
4. 6. Will it be needed for a long time? Service delivery
planning horizons are long-term with confidence that the
assets and services provided are intended to be used
over long periods into the future.
7. Can the private sector deliver? Does the private
sector has the expertise to deliver? Is there good
reason to think it will offer VfM and robust performance
incentives can be put in place.
5. Which PPP?
1. Understand and examine all the models.
2. What is your appetite for risk and can you afford
it?
3. Making a decision.
4. Will your chosen PPP approach deliver the
programme’s objectives?
6. 1. PPP – What are the models?
Degree of Private Sector Risk and Responsibility
10. Privatization
9. Build-Own-Operate
Service
Concession
Arrangements
8. Build-Own-Operate-Transfer
7. Design-Build-Finance-Operate
6. Design-Build-Operate-Maintain
5. Operations Concession
4. Design-Build
3. Management Contract
2. Service Contract
1. Government
Degree of Private Sector Involvement
7. 2. PFI, PPP or something else? – What is the trade
off between risk and cost?
10. Advantages and Disadvantages
Conceptual advantages
Value for Money
Integrated whole life management
Risk transfer to private sector
Private Sector Capital
Banks capital at risk therefore risk
transfer incentivised
- Design Risk
Project finance discipline leading to
whole life costing
- Construction Risk
Bank step in on contractor default
- Financing Risk
- Technology & Obsolescence
- Operating and FM Risk
Focus on output specification
Conceptual disadvantages
Cost associated with risk transfer
Opportunities for innovation in service
delivery
Price must include profit margin
Long term certainty
Inflexibility
Private sector capital
May be off Government Balance Sheet