The projects nominated by the jurisdictions are detailed in Table C.1.
Table C.1: Projects40 included in the research
| Jurisdiction | Project | Category |
| Queensland | The Southbank Education and Training Precinct | Education |
| Queensland | SEQ Schools Project | Education |
| New South Wales | New Schools Project | Education |
| New South Wales | New Schools Project 2 | Education |
| New South Wales | Long Bay Prison and Forensic Project | Health |
| New South Wales | Darling Harbour Live | Other |
| Victoria | Partnerships Victoria in Schools Project | Education |
| Victoria | Royal Women's Hospital | Health |
| Victoria | Casey Community Hospital | Health |
| Victoria | Melbourne Convention Centre Development | Other |
| New Zealand | Hobsonville Schools PPP | Education |
| New Zealand | Auckland South Correctional Facility | Justice |
Throughout the research, it was anticipated that participants (service providers and contract managers) with experience in other projects (normally in the traditional model) would also bring examples and comments from additional projects as appropriate.
The four jurisdictions also agreed to:
• make available to the research team media releases and other community information documents and files pertaining to the nominated project
• make available to the research team files on
» Cabinet-approved business case targets on project costs and service outcomes
» Gateway Review reports
» Formal project reports on outcomes during contract management related to contracted KPIs and financial matters such as on-going contractual payments and abatements
» Formal reports to project control committees of business case versus actual costs (capital and recurrent) and time outcomes, and
• nominate "appropriate" project service providers and contract managers for participation in workshops conducted by the research team.
The definition of an "appropriate" representative person was one that:
• has worked for at least a few years in one of the nominated PPP projects
• can provide their view as a senior executive (for example, school principals/deputy principals), middle manager (for example, senior staff), staff (for example, professional staff outside of management) and/or administrative officer (for example, business manager), and
• has experience working in both PPP and non-PPP facilities.
The service providers and contract managers nominated by the jurisdictions were invited by the university's researcher to participate in the following activities:
• complete an individual pre-workshop survey
• attend a workshop for either contract managers or service providers (two separate workshops were conducted in each of the four jurisdictions)
• complete an individual post-workshop survey, and
• complete an additional individual survey if unable to attend a workshop.
A total of 39 participants attended the workshops which included 28 service providers (principals, clinicians, event managers, custodial staff, business managers and others) and 11 contract managers. A total of 37 responses were collected for pre-workshop survey and 21 responses for post-workshop survey.