Standardized and comparable data are invaluable for valid cross-economy analysis, which is the central principle of Procuring Infrastructure PPPs 2018. The unique pool of questions used in the questionnaire was sent to each contributor in every economy covered. Moreover, the contributors were referred to a case study for the transportation sector (highways) with standard assumptions to ensure comparability across surveys (Box 1). The use of a standard case study makes data collection easily replicable across economies and can make up for deep structural gaps between economies, which could jeopardize cross-economy contrasts. In addition, the hypothetical case study can be easily applied to an extended set of economies in a seamless manner.
Box 1. Case study assumptions › The private partner (the project company) is a special purpose vehicle (SPV) established by a consortium of privately owned firms that operate in the surveyed economy. › The procuring authority is a national/federal authoritya in the surveyed economy that is planning to procure the design, building, financing, operation, and maintenance of, for example, a national/federal infrastructure project in the transportation sector (such as a highway) with an estimated investment value of US$150 million (or the equivalent in your local currency) funded with availability payments and/ or user fees. › To this end, the procuring authority initiates a public call for tenders, following a competitive PPP procurement procedure. a. Except for Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Arab Emirates, and the United States, where the focus is on subnational units (the State of New South Wales, the Sarajevo Canton within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Emirate of Dubai, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, respectively). |