Government-Private Sector Collaboration

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Collaboration Model

• Definition

  A long-term arrangement between a government and private sector institutions, typically involving private capital financing government projects and services up-front, with revenues drawn from taxpayers and/or users.

• Common Names

  Public-Private Partnership (PPP, 3P, P3)

• Key Benefits

  Sharing of risk, development of innovation, private capital mobilization, enhanced speed and comprehensiveness of infrastructure development, improved quality and efficiency of service delivery, broader skills and talents, building public trust.

• Funding Source

  Ultimately paid for through taxes or by users of the service, or a mix of both.

• Key Criticisms

  Structurally more expensive than publicly financed projects (due to private sector's higher cost of borrowing), high transaction costs, lower public return on investment, secrecy surrounding financial details, issues of accountability, mixed evidence on value for money and efficiency.

• Primary Purpose

  To finance new or refurbished public sector assets, increase private sector involvement in public administration, foster private innovation, and improve efficiency and service delivery.

• Typical Applications

  Infrastructure projects (e.g., schools, hospitals, transport systems, water and sewerage systems), and public services.

• Emergence of Contemporary Form

  Around the end of the 20th century

• Specific Model Discussed (fictionalized)

  Lighthouse customer approach (government acts as a launch customer to foster private innovation for national benefit).

Timeline

• In a fictionalized account, the 'lighthouse customer approach' was discussed at the White House as a form of Government-Private Sector Collaboration, where the government acts as a launch customer to foster private innovation. (Source: related_documents)

  2025-03-01

Public–private partnership

A public–private partnership (PPP, 3P, or P3) is a long-term arrangement between a government and private sector institutions. Typically, it involves private capital financing government projects and services up-front, and then drawing revenues from taxpayers and/or users for profit over the course of the PPP contract. Public–private partnerships have been implemented in multiple countries and are primarily used for infrastructure projects. Although they are not compulsory, PPPs have been employed for building, equipping, operating and maintaining schools, hospitals, transport systems, and water and sewerage systems. Cooperation between private actors, corporations and governments has existed since the inception of sovereign states, notably for the purpose of tax collection and colonization. Contemporary "public–private partnerships" came into being around the end of the 20th century. They were aimed at increasing the private sector's involvement in public administration. They were seen by governments around the world as a method of financing new or refurbished public sector assets outside their balance sheet. While PPP financing comes from the private sector, these projects are always paid for either through taxes or by users of the service, or a mix of both. PPPs are structurally more expensive than publicly financed projects because of the private sector's higher cost of borrowing, resulting in users or taxpayers footing the bill for disproportionately high interest costs. PPPs also have high transaction costs. PPPs are controversial as funding tools, largely over concerns that public return on investment is lower than returns for the private funder. PPPs are closely related to concepts such as privatization and the contracting out of government services. The secrecy surrounding their financial details complexifies the process of evaluating whether PPPs have been successful. PPP advocates highlight the sharing of risk and the development of innovation, while critics decry their higher costs and issues of accountability. Evidence of PPP performance in terms of value for money and efficiency, for example, is mixed and often unavailable.

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