The report was commissioned by the Scottish Executive to further its understanding of the performance of PPP projects in Scotland. The aims of the research were:
• to provide an initial assessment of the relative costs and benefits of PPP procurement compared with traditional procurement, and of the underlying causes of good and bad performance; and
• to assess the potential merits of centrally collecting additional performance monitoring information and other data to inform future PPP performance evaluations and provide recommendations on what data should be collected.
Questionnaires were sent to each authority responsible for a live PPP project (that is, health boards, councils and the Scottish Executive) covering 69 operational projects. The questionnaires were supported by interviews with private and public sector contacts for a sample of the projects.