Evaluation of Public-Private Partnership Contract Types for Roadway Construction, Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Preservation

At the current time, most agencies do not have a set of straightforward guidelines by which they decide whether to adopt a public-private partnership (PPP) for a given project, and if to adopt one, which type of PPP should be adopted. The proposed study intends to develop a PPP evaluation and decision support framework that New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) can use to make these decisions, such that there is maximum benefit to the agency. The study will identify and quantify various agency and user cost components, and common risks and rewards that can be expected from each PPP type or project type, and identify influential factors for each component through rigorous statistical methodologies. In the benefit-cost aspect of the framework, the allocation or responsibilities for the risks (and the beneficiary of these rewards) will be identified. This will be done for each PPP type, and for each stage of the project development process. To that end, a number of typical PPP types will be explored, such as performance-based contracting, cost-plus-time, incentives/disincentives, design-build and its derivatives, project build-operate-transfer, build-own-operate, warranties, and lane-rentals. The decision-support methodology will be based on an elaborative evaluation - through advanced statistical modeling - of the aforementioned PPP types by procurement package, in terms of cost savings, cost overrun, time delay, change orders, and safety and operations before, during, and after construction/preservation work. The cost perspective of the cost-effectiveness concept will involve life cycle cost (agency and user) analysis of different options on the basis of past data. The effectiveness' perspective of the framework will involve the extent to which specific agency goals are being achieved, for each alternative. These goals will include facility durability, frequency of maintenance, infrastructure performance, safety and operational performance of the facility, and availability of in-house expertise for operations and maintenance. The "optimal" decision will be one that is associated with the highest possible effectiveness and the least possible cost to the agency, user, or both. Application of the framework to specific commonly encountered scenarios will yield a set of decision matrices from which a simple excel-based electronic expert system will be developed. The expert system will help the agency's decision-makers select the appropriate procurement package and contract type for a given project on the basis of the project characteristics, and the possible consequences of any selection thereof. Note that NYSDOT will complement the research team's existing rich database with available information (see NYSDOT Support Letter).

• Record URL:
  http://www.utrc2.org/research/projects/evaluation-public-private-partnership-contract-types-roadway-construction

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $166231.00
• Contract Numbers:

  49997-42-25

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  University Transportation Research Center

  City College of New York
  Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10031
• Project Managers:

  Eickemeyer, Penny

• Performing Organizations:

  State University of New York, Buffalo

  242 Carpenter Hall
  Buffalo, NY  United States  10003
• Principal Investigators:

  Sadek, Adel

  Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis

• Start Date: 20140602
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20151231
• Source Data: RiP Project 36354

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Contract administration; Contracts; Design bid build; Disincentives; Guidelines; Incentives; Life cycle costing; Public private partnerships
• Identifier Terms: New York State Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01565272
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University Transportation Research Center
• Contract Numbers: 49997-42-25
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: May 29 2015 1:01AM