Private Sector´s Perception of the Risk Allocation in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Arrangement

“Napoleon is always right.” These are Boxer’s favorite words. In the George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, Boxer lives with these words as one of his two mottos. In Animal Farm, Boxer and some of the other farm animals are not as intelligent as the pigs. The pigs took advantage of their knowledge and were controlling the non-intelligent like Boxer and the sheep.

The purpose of this analysis is to compare and contrast two projects in terms of Project Management, Quantitative Analysis and Economics while illustrating the

Procurement is the process of selecting suppliers and signing contracts for the purchase of goods and services. While simple in definition, quite the opposite is true when it comes to execution. When speaking about public and private sectors, they are two entirely different entities. They have different work principles, different functions and responsibilities in the economy, and different limitations to do work. In the case of government acquisition, the leading and primary objective is for public good, not profit. For a private venture, it is profit for the shareholders. A private company has to have profit as the first priority when awarding procurement contracts. Due to this obvious dichotomy, contractors generally either service

The PMO can accelerate the implementation process as it streamlines the departments’ workload by focusing exclusively on it. As it has been done in the specific case, in order to accelerate this procedure and improve its efficacy and efficiency, the office has to be comprised of a “handful of experienced project managers”. Indeed, having the specific expertise in this field enables to avoid conflicts of interest that might occur by giving control of the PMO to an internal executive.

A privately financed project was a specified from of PPP that involved not only private sector financing but also controlling ownership. PFPs differed. From the outsourcing or construction by the government. There has been widespread adoption by Governments across the world of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a way of providing public infrastructure. Grimsey and Lewis report that the UK version of PPPs,

Most projects of whichever size or significance cannot be completed using 100% in-sourced resources. But Project managers must still procure their project’s resources that are not obtained in-house, and that must be done through outsourcing. To that end, the project procurement process “tries to maximize the value derived from all funds invested in the project to obtain goods and services.

Utilizing public funds to invest in megaprojects has been a contentious topic for many cities who are tempted to endure years, if not decades, of construction and billions of dollars of debt to hopefully experience some economic and social advantages that other megaprojects have brought to fortunate cities and areas. However, from studies and research, it seems that megaprojects have higher likeliness to fail and bring economic turmoil to cities and areas that take the risk. Unless protocol for how such projects and associated contractors are held accountable improve, using public resources to fund megaprojects should cease. Too often does it occur that the burden of megaprojects falls on taxpayers where such funding could have been used for

The major part of the job for PSP is to advice the Federal government on management and operation challenges. These challenges can include a wide range from designing economic development strategies to implementing financial controls for major federal programs. These require immense focus and efficiency to get the job done right and PSP has just the right tools by partnering with the parent company PWC’s business units to create innovative solutions. There are four primary goals in PWC PSP: Drive profitable growth, enhance people experience, enhance the client experience, and maintain compliant and efficient operations.(PwC PSP MBNQA Application, 2014)

Megaprojects are the temporary undertakings portrayed by extensive speculation responsibility, complicated nature, and durable on the economy, the earth, and society. Megaprojects includes the production of energy plants, oil and gas extraction plants, airports and handling projects, railroads, motorways, dams, and even social occasions, such as the Olympic games or all-inclusive articles. Their prerequisites for the coordination and control of a complex collection of financial, social, and specialized assets to transform them into reality are the things that megaprojects have in common. In spite of their criticality, megaprojects are related with to a great degree poor conveyance execution and long-term benefits acknowledgment. The effective exchange of learning across projects and megaprojects has been a long-held want by those engaged with their outline and conveyance.

Planned infrastructure in itself enhances growth of the economy in terms of productivity of labour and also places the economy on the pedestal for growth to a developed state. The strategic location and management of space with respect to the structures (physical) in the economy when planned will lead to workers- for instance, being able to put in more labour-hours of work. The effects are very easy to observe in the services sector where lateness of personnel

The Project Management Plan (PMP) provides the general overview and establishes specific strategies and milestones for the preparation of study notes and delivery of presentation on the topic “Developing the Project Team “. The PMP will define the project 's requirements and expectations. This document will be updated as required, if there is any change in the subsidiary management plans.

To select a suitable procurement strategy for a construction project, there are some issues which need to consider. From all of those issues, there are 3 big issues that mainly affect the selection decision which are time, cost and quality. There is several type of procurement strategy available in market that commonly used for construction project and each of the common method will be analyze and compare to find the most appropriate method for this project. The choice of procurement strategy is very important to the success of a construction project. Therefore, the characteristic of each strategy have to analyze and also its relative advantages and disadvantages. A recommendation of most appropriate procurement

There however are challenges in the industry occasioned by uncertainty on future spending on construction projects by the government. Moreover, the cost of doing business and the ability to increasingly make revenue have created a challenging environment for the construction firms. Therefore stakeholders in the construction industry are concerned with whether the government would increase its spending and whether the public construction projects will be available in the future since less than 10 percent are currently financing their clients.

The case study, “Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc.” in the Custom Book, (2011), examines the project management structure of the Beijing EAPS Consulting (BEC) company. This case study also addresses about project plan itself and how the co-workers are struggling with this communication between both mangers. This project plan has demonstrated many strengths and weakness. The one thing that the project plan needs put into action are safeguards to insure that the project is completed on time.

In this paper, an extensive literature review is undertaken to evaluate the importance of risk allocation to project stakeholders and discuss current practices. However, the complexity of this topic is beyond the scope of this paper. Hence, the attention is towards the direct participants, even though other stakeholders will also be tangentially mentioned. Also, as PPP is developing fast in the area of project finance and its importance is increasing, I have used it to illustrate some of the points made in the current risk allocation practices.