P3 Toolkit: Monitoring and Oversight for Public-Private Partnerships (P3s)

Federal Highway Administration2017PDFBriefUnited States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program DeliveryDeCorla-Souza, Patrick T.United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program DeliveryUnited StatesPublic private partnershipsInfrastructureGovernment agenciesThe use of Public\u2013Private Partnerships (P3s) marks a shift away from traditional ways of procuring and financing highway projects. Under traditional procurement processes, private contractors construct projects based on a public design by using public funding, and the projects are then operated and maintained by public agencies. With the P3 model, a private partner may participate in some combination of design, construction, financing, operations, and maintenance, including the collection of toll revenues. After a P3 agreement is signed, the public agency must manage the contract to ensure that it achieves the performance standards established in the agreement. The performance-monitoring and oversight phase will require building a strong set of skills within the public agency due to the need to maintain these oversight responsibilities in-house. This includes the need for contract management skills to monitor the established performance standards and to manage accordingly. In addition, the capacity to monitor technical performance during construction and operations can be critical to ensuring efficient service delivery.109