6. How effective and costly has it been to monitor the private sector providers' performance and quality of service in Private Finance projects in comparison with traditional procurement?
6.1 The performance and quality of LIFT projects is extensively monitored by way of monthly reports to the PCT during the operational phase and the Service Level Agreement-this simply does not exist in traditional public procurement where there is no in-built system to monitor quality. The private sector reports monthly to PCTs against agreed procedures and is measured against the results. There is no cost to the public sector of these reports and it is cost effective for the PCT since the private sector foots the cost of the collation of data.