Public-private partnerships: overcoming project implementation problems faced by public clients and private players in infrastructure projects in Singapore
After five years since their introduction, there remains a dearth of public-private-partnership (PPP) projects in Singapore. This paper aims to investigate the problems faced when using PPP arrangements and provide recommendations on how these can be surmounted. Face-to-face in-depth interviews with practitioners from the public and private sectors were conducted. The results show that the problems faced by public PPP clients are: difficulty in deciding if a public service could be bought using the PPP route; private providers inability to innovate and understand client's requirements; private sector's low capability in facilities management; and public sector's constantly changing needs. The difficulties faced by private providers are: inability to recoup expenditure; absence of a PPP champion; high tendering cost; criteria for awards are unclear; and risk allocation is unfair. Recommendations on how problems faced in the PPP pre-contract stage might be overcome are presented.
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2011
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Authors: | LINGF-1, L ; Kumaraswamy, M ; Dulaimi, M ; Khalfan, M |
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The Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management |
Subject: | Public-private partnership | pre-contract stage | clients | Singapore |
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