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Lecture 1 Definition: Political Science,
Economics The Concept of Public Goods: Adam
Smith Characteristics of Goods that Require
Intervention Techniques of Public Sector
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Definitions—Public Administration
1. Relying more on private institutions of society and less on government to satisfy people’s needs. Private institutions include businesses operating in marketplace, voluntary organizations– religious, neighborhoods, civic, co-operatives and charities. Individuals, family, clan or tribe.
2. Act of diminished role of government or increased role of private sector in an activity or in the ownership of assets.
3. Act of transferring government enterprise or assets to the private sector
4. Webster’s: Making private, especially changing from public to private control or ownership.
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Definition: Economics
A move of an asset or activity from bureaucratic government monopoly towards competitive markets.
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Public Goods: Adam Smith The need for National defense The duty of protecting every member of
society from injustice or oppression of every other member of society
Establish and Maintaining highly beneficial public institutions and public works which are of negative profit nature if supplied in small quantities
The duty of meeting expenses of ruling powers.
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Public Intervention in Marketplace Pure Public Good: Collective consumption
(non-divisible) with non-exclusion, and non-rivalry in consumption. MC=0. Motivation for free ridership.
Externalities: Positive and negative; Production and Consumption.
Monopolistic Power. Asymmetric information between the
consumers and producers in the market Equity.
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Pure Public
The case of MC=0 and constant is typical for pure public good. A non-competitive provider will produce at MR=MC and eliminate a significant part of Consumers’ surplus. Example, a road without congestion.
Degree of collective consumption VS. Size of relevant interacting group.
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Mapping of Public And Private Goods
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Dichotomy of Goods & Services
EXCLUSIVE NON EXCLUSIVE
RIVALRY Pure Private Common PoolPublic domain ponds, rivers. Regulation by licensing, contracting-out.
NON-RIVALRY ClubSwimming pools, toll roads, country clubs. Membership, tolls or users’ charges. Private provision. contracting-out, and vouchers.
Pure Public
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Exclusion & Consumption Properties of Goods & Services
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Externalities
Definition: By-product of activities that escape the price mechanism, and may be of positive or negative nature. Government role is to internalize externalities such that the price includes it. In case of negative externalities the product is over produced and at a lower price than it should (social). Positive externalities cause under production of the good at a higher price than socially desired.
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Natural Monopoly
A single provider in the market. Absence of competition may result of significant economies of scale, technological superiorities, and/or asymmetric information that over time eliminated all competitors. Entry of new competitors to increase supply and thereby lower prices is usually infeasible. Gov’t intervention is
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Natural Monopoly (cont.)Is aimed to control prices through regulation.
Examples include local utilities. Improved technology increase availability of close substitutes and leads to elimination of the need to regulate.
Natural monopoly results of economies of scale, technological superiority, asymmetric information. Overtime, one provider prevails. Consumers’ surplus in the case of a monopoly is smaller than that results in perfect competition. Government regulation sets the price to be lower and as close as possible to that of perfect competition. Action could be on the quantity.
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Asymmetric Information
Food contents, medicine, Enron, corporate corruption
Here the consumers have no knowledge on the contents of their products while learning about it requires very high cost. Government needs to protect the consumers.
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Equity
Requires government intervention. Efficiency VS. Equity. Shortcomings of perfect competition. Voluntary activities to reduce inequity. Progressive taxation.
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History of Privatization
Peter Drucker suggested contracting out. Milton Friedman.
Thatcher elected 1979. BP (79), British Aerospace (81), National Freight Corp (82), Cable and Wireless (83), Jaguar (84), British Telecom (84), British Aerospace-final portion of holdings (85), British Gas (86), British Airways (87), Rolls Royce (87), British Airport Authority (87), water utilities (89), electric utilities (90), mandatory compulsory tendering (compet bidding) of local gov’t services (89).
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History of Privatization
US: little privatization by sale by Fed. Few state owned enterprise. Contracting out: data processing, food services, building maintenance, guard services. Local: waste collection, street cleaning, ambulance service, park maintenance.
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History of Privatization
World: Late 1980’s: Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina elected presidents who adopted strong privat. Policies.
China: Agriculture (78), eliminating state owned and collective farms and allowing private farming. In the 80’s: private sector industrial and retail operations, multi ownership, joint ventures.
89: Collapse of socialist block.
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Political historical Discussion Rise of Communism and greater state
involvement in marketplace: Eastern block Rise of Socialism in Western Europe Rise of Fascist regimes in South and Central
America Change of trend: Thatcher and Reagan Collapse of Eastern European block Liberalism in Western Europe and Americas The role of privatization
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I. By Divestment
A. SaleB. Free TransferC. Liquidation
1.To Private Sector2.To the Public
3.To Employees4.To Users or Consumers
5.To Employees6.To the Public
7.To Users or Consumers8.To Prior Owner
II. By Delegation
A.ContractB.Franchise
C.GrantD.Voucher
E.Mandate
1.Public Domain (Concession)
2.Public Assets (Lease)
III. By Displaceme
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A.DefaultB.Withdraw
C.Deregulation
Forms of Privatization
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I. By Divestment A. SaleB. Free TransferC. Liquidation
1.To Private Sector2.To the Public3.To Employees4.To Users or Consumers5.To Employees6.To the Public7.To Users or Consumers8.To Prior Owner
II. By Delegation A.ContractB.FranchiseC.GrantD.VoucherE.Mandate
1.Public Domain (Concession)2.Public Assets (Lease)
III. By Displacement A.DefaultB.WithdrawC.Deregulation
Forms of Privatization
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Forms of Privatization
Divestment: Shedding an enterprise or an asset. One time affair. Sold or given away. Free transfer: Given away to
employees, users, customers, previous owners, or the public at large
Sale: to joint venture, private buyer, the public, employees, users or customers.
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Forms of Privatization Delegation: Requires a continuing active role
for gov’t. Remains responsible for overseeing the results. Contract: for part of service, for total management.
Solid waste collection, street repair, street cleaning, snow removal, tree maintenance, loan processing, data processing, audio visual services, food, mail and filing services.
Franchise (concession): exclusive right to sell a service or product to the public. 1. Use of the public domain in the course of carrying out their commercial activities– airwaves, air space, underground space. Examples, broadcasting, airlines, bus and taxi co’s, electric, gas, water, telephone.
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Forms of Privatization (Delegation forms cont.)
2. A lease. Government owned tangible property is used by a private lessee to engage in a commercial enterprise
Grant: private entity does the work-subsidy, grants for public transit, low income housing, maritime shipping. To run a bus service, to do research, to promote the arts. Contracts are more specific.
Mandate: Gov’t requires private companies to provide services at their expense. Ex. Unemployment Compensation. Replacing Gov’t by mandatory indiv retirement accts.
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Forms of Privatization Displacement: Passive process as markets
develop to satisfy needs. By default: Gradually the public looks for the private
sector. Ex. Municipal tennis courts and other rec. facilities. Commercial ventures, voluntary groups like charitable, social, philanthropic and community org. Ex. Police is replaced by private guards. IN trans. gypsy cabs, commuter vans, minibus systems and other unofficial or technically illegal trans. Providers emerge as public means are inadequate. Private co’s finance, build, operating, owning roads, bridges, prisons. Ex. tunnel connecting England and France.
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Forms of Privatization By Withdrawal: Gov’t shuts down failing
public enterprise or accommodates private sector private sector expansion.
By deregulation: State monopoly vs. competition. Privatization if the private sector challenges a gov’t monopoly and even displaces it. Packages and express mail.
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Delegation: Contracting OutMost common in the US (28% of all services). Mandatory for municipal services in
the UK.Managed competition: bidding for contracting out that includes the gov’t agency.
Goldsmith: “A city could run with its mayor, a police chief, a planning director, a purchasing agent, and a handful of contract monitors”. Steps in contracting for service:
1. Consider the idea of contracting out.2. Select the service3. Conduct a feasibility study4. Foster competition5. Request expression of interest or qualifications6. Plan the employee transition7. Prepare bid specifications8. Initiate a public relations campaign9. Engage in “managed competition”10. Conduct a fair bidding process11. Evaluate the bids and award a contract12. Monitor, evaluate, and enforce contract performance
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Contracting OutSuccess in waste management: collection, disposal,
extracting energy and recyclables from the waste stream, and to treat hazardous wastes. Principal-agent problem: The principal bears 1. the cost of providing incentives to encourage the agent to pursue the goals of the principal. 2. the cost of obtaining information and monitoring the agent to reduce opportunistic behavior. 3. the cost of any residual opportunistic behavior by the agent. A gov’t with budget problems is a good candidate for contracting out. Loss of hospital accreditation by the State, court’s order the closure of a municipal landfill, sudden need for a large public facility-- all necessitate contracting out.
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Contracting Out: Actual ProcessWastewater treatment plants in Indianapolis, 1993.1. Mayor creates Review Committee (6 mayoral appointees, and 2 from
City Council)2. Review Committee issues RFQ to 28 Cos.3. 7 Responses are received including one from the current managers of
plant4. Committee reviews and cuts down to 55. City provides $15K for consultants to help existing managers: Cost
estimate and preparation of RFP6. RFP are issued to 5 qualified teams7. Teams of all 5 qualifiers visit separately the plant8. 5 qualifiers submit proposals and prices9. A technical and financial consultants are hired to help the Committee10. 3 of 5 including existing management are rejected11. Each finalist briefs the Review Committee12. Review Committee visits plants operated under contract by 2 finalists13. Review Committee picks the winner14. Winner starts contract operation
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Contracting Out: 2. Select the Service Criteria Service with no legal or contractual impediments to contracting Easy to carry out competitive contracting Hard services for which easy to write enforceable specifications Stand-alone service Can be segmented by location into 2+ contracts Services that have been successfully contracted out elsewhere “Yellow pages test”. Enough, responsible and experienced
bidders Services for which part timers can be used. Significant savings
since gov’t cannot readily employ part timers Services where gov’t operation is overstaffed, poorly managed or
could be re-engineered. Services that are subject to public complains Services where employees and union resistance can be overcome Services where overpowering political opposition will not result Services where in-house monitoring expertise is available.
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Contracting Out: 3. Feasibility Study Establish current cost to establish a baseline against which to compare
prices Assess quality of current operation—complaints, measuring
performance, conducting surveys Public cost relies on published budget. Need for ABC accounting which
includes:1. Capital expenditures which often are not included in operating budgets2. Interest costs on capital expenditures3. Costs of supplies- fuel for vehicles that appear in a different category
of budget4. Fringe benefits5. Budgetary pensions6. Cost of labor borrowed from other agencies or hired seasonally and are
not included in the analyzed budget. E.g. hierarchical and hidden costs. Or, many attorneys budgeted by the DOJ work full time defending the Bureau of Prisons against suits brought by litigating prisoners.
7. Foregone property tax and OC of building and land used by the activity8. Cost of premiums paid for liability and fire insurance
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Contracting Out: 4. Foster CompetitionIt is best to have multiple competitors. However, when there are marginal competitors it is best to
negotiate bids with handful of clearly eligible contractors after the qualifying round. Best for contractors of hospitals, prisons, social and professional services. Often due to bureaucratic behavior of gov’t there are only few bidders and/or high bids to compensate for it.
To foster competition– 1. divide the geographical area to smaller units as long as econ of scale are not adversely
affected. 2. give a long lead time to bidders3. publicize and use the web for the bidding4. provide sufficient information5. award enough contracts and permit a large number of bidders to get contracts.6. Minimize “incumbent advantage” to encourage new contractors to bid. Philadelphia did just
that by including in the bid for the maintenance of street lighting detailed information on equipment and practices used by the incumbent contractor
7. Avoid request for sensitive non-essential business information to the procurement like profits, wages of managers/employees
8. Avoid restricted contracts for nonprofit organizations but keep it open for all. Such restrictions are often used for local political patronage (e.g. social foster care agencies)
9. When service is site based like center for homeless, the owner of the facility has an advantage in such a bidding. It is suggested to separate the rent from the operation to encourage companies that could provide the service however do not own the (a) facility.
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Contracting Out: 5. Express Interest or Qualifications (RFEI)
When initially considering privatization, gov’t may be unsure about the exact nature of the proposed contract. So, it announces RFEI to prospective bidders, pre-bid conference to discuss the issues, checking the submission of the firms, prepare a list of firms to which RFP or an invitation to bid is issues.
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Contracting Out: 6. Plan the Employee Transition
Biggest problem is how to handle with redundant workers and the prospect of labor unrest. Surveys showed that most workers are hired by the private contractor, followed by early retirement, severance pay, attrition, redeployment in other public agencies. Only few are fired.
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Contracting Out: 7. Prepare bid specifications Contract wording should be in ordinary language,
accurate and unambiguously. The contract should not specify exactly how the work should be done but merely the output quantitative specifications. Gov’t should allow freedom of contractor to employ the people at salaries and in procedures that achieve the contract specified outputs. “Hard” services that involve tangible and visible physical results are easier to write specifications in output and lend themselves to contracting out. “Soft” services that involve social workers are more amenable for contracting out.
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Contracting Out: 8. Initiating Public Relations Campaign
Strong opposition is almost certain to surface by public employee unions, private firms that want to avoid competition, or special interest groups. Aggressive campaign in support of privatization should include a coalition of civic associations for better gov’t, neighborhood groups dissatisfied with poor services, minority businesses that see opportunity in providing such services etc.
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Contracting Out: 9. Managed Competition1. Effective for short term contract or where capital
expenditures are required2. Allows the management to work with its labor force3. Improves employees’ morale and builds community support4. Reduces the possibility of collusion among private providers5. Induces private firms to submit better bidsMandatory competitive bidding by gov’t agencies for routine
functions was introduced in the UK. Also, requirement of gov’t agencies to maintain separate accounts of income and expenditures and to achieve a prescribed rate of return on the capital equipment they employ. (Local Gov’t Act, 1988). Included refuse collection, street cleaning, cleaning of public buildings, vehicle and ground maintenance, and food services. Result: Many services were won by in-house departments with savings of 20% and reduction in manpower of 20-30%.
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Contracting Out: 10. Fair Bidding Process Widely advertise the RFP Allow enough time between announcement
and due date Hold a bidders’ conference to address
questions Use internal team and an outside consultant to
evaluate proposals using clear criteria and an agreed upon score system
Avoid asking for too many bid prices. (e.g. price for year 1, year 2…) This will create favoritism.
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Reasons for Privatization Political Science view) Pragmatic: Greater efficiency in the
production of G & S. Dissatisfaction with gov’t performance.
Ideology: Less gov’t. Gov’t plays a smaller role than the private sector.
Commercial: To do more work at profit. Populist: Better society by giving people
greater power through the marketplace while diminishing the power of large public bureaucracies.
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Reasons for Privatization (The Economist View)1. Improve economic efficiency2. Strengthen the share of the private sector in
the economy3. Reducing the role of government in the
marketplace4. Improve the financial stance of the public
sector5. Develop better capital markets6. Use the revenues generated by the
privatization for other social, security or infrastructure purposes.
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Reasons for privatization varies by economies
The relative importance of the reasons depends upon the characteristics of the economy in question. In a nation where capital markets are weak– reason 5 dominates. In a nation that changes its structure (from Communism) then reasons 2, 3, and 5 are central. In a developed economy where the private sector is strong and so are capital markets then reason 1 applies.
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Keys for Success (in Declining Importance) Having committed political leader (s) to champion the
initiative. E.g. a governor, mayor, or several legislators. Flexibility in adjusting strategies when problems arise in the implementation. Maintenance of momentum.
Establishing an organizational and analytical structure to implement the initiative.
Enacting legislative changes and/or reducing available resources to encourage greater exposure to competition. Signaling managers and employees that the restructuring efforts are real.
Developing reliable Activity Based Costing (ABC) accounting to determine performance of the gov’t agency and the feasibility of private sector provision of service. Cost data on individual activity and not the traditional agency wide accounting system.
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Keys for Success (Conti.) Involving employees and local unions in the privatization process. Unions
concerns and political influence led to legislation that made privatization in MA more difficult. In Indianapolis, employees are involved from early stage. Workers trained in ABC and allowed to compete. Front line workers were given decision-making power. Some supervisory jobs were eliminated, training to workers responding to RFP, safety net for displaced workers.
A 1989 National Commission on Employment Policy survey showed that 24% of contracted out public services were transferred to other gov’t jobs. 58% went to work for the private contractor, 7% retired, and only 3% laid off.
A monitoring body should be established by gov’t to assure compliance with the designated contractual terms.
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Problems with traditional Contract Out Model
Infrastructure controlled by gov’t:1. Separate contracts with private agencies2. Labor disputes3. Disputes between the planners and the
contractor4. Lowest bidder contractor performs low-
quality workmanship5. Concealed or unforeseen conditions6. Huge task of renewing the public
infrastructures, and insufficient funds.
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Public Private Partnerships (PPP)Definition: PPP is an arrangement of roles and relationships in which 2+
public and private entities coordinate in a complementary way to achieve their separate objectives through the pursuit of common objectives (s).
Private design, finance, construction, maintenance and operation of a project for public use for a specific period of time. When time expires, title reverts to gov’t.
The private sector aids gov’t in identifying new private financed profit-
making facilities, and seek out new projects that otherwise have to wait until public funding becomes available.
The public sector investigates feasibility of project, execute the contract, choose the private partner, regulate prices, establish and monitor performance standards.
BOT is a general term for PPP. A concession is granted to a contractor to design, finance, operate and maintain for 10-30 years. Contractor charges tolls for the use of the facility.
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Forms of PPP From mostly Public to mostly private Fully public DB: Design Build DBFO: Design, Build, Finance, Operate BOT: Build. Operate, Transfer BTO: Build, Transfer, Operate BOOT: Build, Own, Operate, Transfer BOO: Build, Own, Operate Fully Private
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Forms of PPP DB: A contract with a private contractor to provide
architecture/engineering design and construction services DBFO: Contractor responsible for these services and is compensated by
specific service payment by gov’t during life of project. No actual tolls are collected by private contractor. Here payments by gov’t—cost to taxpayer. Still efficient since construction & operation by a private entity
BOT: A concession is granted to a contractor to design, finance, operate, and maintain for 10-30 years. Contractor charges tolls for the use of facility.
BTO: Build, Transfer, Operate. The gov’t then leases the facility back to developer under a long term lease.
BOOT: Build, Own, Operate, Transfer. Ownership with the contractor until the end of the concession period and is transferred free to the gov’t.
BOO: Outright privatization without a transfer of ownership to gov’t. At the end of the concession, the original agreement can be renegotiated.
Wraparound addition: The private developer constructs an addition to an existing public facility and then operates the entire facility for a fixed period of time or until the developer recovers costs plus a reasonable return on investment.
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Reasons for PPP Greater efficiency in the use of
public resources. State and local gov’ts save 10-40 percent
PPP are means of increasing investment in infrastructure particularly utilities and transportation
Needs for social infrastructure– hospitals, prisons, schools, housing
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Advantages for Gov’t of PPP Profit oriented businesses identify new projects that otherwise
wait till gov’t funds are available Private sponsors and commercial lenders assure financial and
tech feasibility of project Private sector can access private capital markets to substitute
hard to get gov’t sources Private sector builds faster and more cost effective than gov’t.
Less bureaucracy and procurement rules Private sector operates facilities more efficiently due to profit
motives Private firms provide more tax revenues Private sector shares or accepts risks otherwise borne by
public sector Private sector transfers technology and provides training to
gov’t workers
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BOT ModelUsually a large project requiring consortium of
designers, builders, financiers and more. Contractor enters into 4 agreements:
1. A concession agreement with host gov’t2. A construction contract usually DB type. It
may be a member of the bidding consortium3. An operation and maintenance agreement
with operator of facility. It may be a member of the bidding consortium
4. Loan agreements. Funds flow through concession co.
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BOT Concession AgreementEstablishes concession rules and contractual rights of
parties. Issues Included: 1. Nature, length, scope of work, operation of completed
facility2. Specification of what is provided3. Extent of permitted variations to specification4. Performance standards5. Tolls, prices, payments to be charged6. Concessionaire's rights if enabling legislation changes7. Provisions for termination of contract8. Circumstances where grantor takes over the
concession.
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BOT: Gov’t support
1. Creating appropriate legislation that enables effective operation
2. Setting tolls to allow reasonable IRR given level of risk
3. Protecting concession Co’s from competition at early years
4. Helping concession co. to overcome bureaucratic opposition
5. Develop a clear and effective program to allow public participation in the planning.
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BOT: Advantages1. No or little cost to taxpayers2. Little risk for gov’t. Sufficient bonds and letters of
credit that ensure completion if private sponsor defaults
3. Private sector can move pre and construction more rapidly than gov’t
4. Sponsors must operate and maintain facility for 20+ years
5. General taxes are unaffected and revenue bonds are unnecessary
6. Only users of BOT facilities pay tolls. Thus, costs are borne by beneficiaries and not by public at large
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BOT: Risks LDC: Long term political instability Cost overruns. Project could come
to halt Currency devaluations causing
payback loans with devalued revenue
Drastic changes in demographics over the concession period may affect revenues.
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PPP in Highways
Problem: Maintenance is short $20B than Federal, State and Local spending. Accommodating expected economics growth is short $40B than public budgeting.
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PPP: Highways
Impetus: Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), 1991. Expanded toll facilities eligibility for Federal aid for construction (re), resurfacing, rehabilitation, conversion to toll roads. Allowed also State funding and shared responsibility with private sector. Exception: Interstate system.
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PPP Highways: Principles
Always PPP where ownership shifts to public entities
Always existence of non-toll alternative road
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Rt. 91 in Ca.
Description: 10 miles 91 express 4-lanes within the median area of SR 91. Connecting 55 Freeway near Anaheim to run east-west to the border of Riverside County. Affluent local population, 8% increase in traffic—high congestion.
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Rt. 91: Ca. Nature of PPP, Operation BTO. CPTC built, cedes ownership to State in
exchange for 35 years lease to operate the road. Toll free and then 50% discount for 3+ people in car.
Demand sensitive pricing by time of day and distance.
Guaranteed 65 MPH otherwise money back Fully automated operation Immediate removal of non-operating vehicles. Results: Profitable from first year. Average
occupancy 1.65 where 20% of which are carpoolers (3+)
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Dulles Greenway Built as BOT in 1995 in Virginia. 15 miles from Dullas
Intern’l Airport to Leesburg. 4 lanes and 250 ft right of way. Private consortium financed, built, and operates it. Connecting the Beltway near D.C. (I 495) with Dulles Airport.
Special legislation to establish prerequisites for construction & operation of a private toll road
A commission was set up to regulate applicants, supervise, control operators, and approve/revise prices.
Total estimated cost $326M. $68M initial investment by partners; of which $22 equity and $46M guarantee against project risk. $202M by consortium of 10 lending institutions.
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Greenway: Features BOT. Transferred to State (VI) after 40
years. Subjected to utility style regulation. Targeted return 21%.
Prices fixed for all day and all 7 interchanges. In 1995 price $1.75 ridership 10K vs. anticipated 30K. In 1996, price lowered to $1– ridership grew to 17K. In 1997, price increased to $1.15. Toll collection below anticipation.
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Lessons learned Drivers are reluctant of paying tolls that do not vary by distance and
time of day. Demand sensitive pricing (discriminatory prices) also assure higher revenues, and avoidance of congestion.
Private toll road companies face difficulties in land acquisition and managing environmental concerns. Rt. 91 had no land acquisition while the Greenway suffered additional cost related to delay in land purchase. DOT enjoys eminent domain provision in assembling land. Timely land acquisition added to the cost of the Greenway.
Private companies unlike public entities cannot finance using tax exempt securities. Thus, private companies pay higher interest.
Private companies unlike public entities do not enjoy sovereign immunity. Full liabilities for accidents adding in case of BOT additional operating cost.
Toll roads should enjoy existing demand and not be subjected to induced development that will produce travel demand. The initial cost of toll roads includes high land acquisition and construction while revenues are low extending for a long period of time.
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Lessons learned (Continued) Metropolitan roads that serve peak time traffic
(e.g. Rt. 91) are more financially viable than intercity roads (e.g. the Greenway).
Most private investments have alternative use in case of failure. No alternative use for failed toll road which raises uncertainty and higher financial costs.
Success requires one company to build and operate the toll road for a long period of time.
Success requires no simple and immediate land acquisition
Success requires a committed political champion
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Problems with Dulles Greenway Fixed price for tolls. Demand sensitive prices over
distance traveled, time of day, week day-weekend Excessive regulation by State/lenders for toll
restructuring, change of speed Real cost of regulation in time and expenses No tax exempt securities raising developer’s interest
payments Accidents and other liabilities absent for public roads
that enjoy sovereign immunity No eminent domain provision to acquire necessary land.
Negotiations for land took time and additional resources adding to cost
Expensive project that is contingent upon stimulation of land use or induced traffic in the remote future with high risk
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BOT Tunnel in Hong KongFeb 1988, the HK Gov’t granted a 30 year franchise to a private consortium. Longest road in HK 4 KM twin tube 4 lanes tunnel and approaching lanes. Completed 2 months ahead of schedule at TC of $276.5M
1. Financed completely by private sector2. Shareholders contributed equity 1 to 2.6 debt3. Risk for non-completion ran for just 18 months construction
period. Risk was low because the tunnel method used was well known. Good reputation of contractor, and $400K per day penalty
4. Cost overrun risk was overcome by several guarantees of shareholders. To ensure project quality, a 10 year performance bond to address performance risk was put up by contractor
5. Post completion risks ran for 12 year loan period. Shareholders purchased i.r. cap. Cash flow risk was mitigated by HK gov’t approval to increase tolls.
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PPP for public schools
PPP adopted to upgrade schools facilities at lower costs and less time than gov’t. PPP are unbounded by regulations that govern public sector bond offering, voter approval, and review of competitive bids. A PPP school in Fl was built in less than 9 months compared with 5 years by Fl gov’t.
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PPP for Schools Nova Scotia 41 schools constructed under Built-
Lease-Transfer-Maintain (BLTM). Private sector designs, finances, and constructs. Leased back to Gov’t for predetermined period of time at a pre-agreed rent. When the lease starts, the school is operational. Advantages: speed of upgrade, and 15 percent savings on lease. The school leases the facility for 20 years at rent lower than the capitalized construction and furnishing cost. Developer uses the facility when not used; other time of the day, weekends, summer holidays. Activities are predetermined like vocational education, meeting space for civic and political groups.
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PPP for Public school: Pembroke Pines Charter Fl.
Haskell Educational Services (HES) designed and built the school between 22 and 34 percent less cost than other public schools in Fl.
Public tax exempt bonds financed the building, owns it, and leases it back to HES. HES operates it as charter school and offers additionally fee-based after-school programs: daycare, enrichment, and student services.
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Conclusions for PPP The traditional model of Gov’t contracting
separately a construction co (bid) and a designer has not been successful. Often, the lower bidder uses low quality material where possible. Also, the fragmented relationship and responsibilities among the gov’t, the designer and the construction co is a source of problems where the gov’t plays a mediation role. In PPP, the construction co has vested interest in high quality construction since it will operate the facility upon completion.
DB is preferred to traditional model since a single organization exists for both avoiding conflicts.
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Conclusions for PPP (Continue) BOT, and DBFO are used for major infrastructure
projects like roads, and power generators. Attract new private investment without recourse to gov’t funding. BOT reduces the common cost overruns experienced by gov’t. Only the users of BOT facilities pay tolls and not taxpayers Users’ charges. In DBFO services charges are paid by public sector; no user charges.
Hospitals and schools use BLMT (Build, Lease, Maintain, Transfer). Facility is leased back to gov’t. PPP can be used to acquire many different types of facilities with various contractual arrangements.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services: The Problem
Higher incidents of criminal behavior when growing up without family ties and lack of permanency. 90% of Rochester NY who endured 5+ family transitions became delinquent. 17% of all local jail inmates are former foster care children. Annual pubic cost of per child foster care is $17,500
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services: Background 400,000 in foster care in 1991, increasing annually by 4%. 542,000 in
2001. 1.5 million children or 2% of all children Average age 10.1 in 2001 and the average child remains in fc 44
months Special subsidy is available for special need children: Emotional and
Physical problems, siblings, age, and ethnic belonging. International adoption becomes common. 20K in 2002; 40% of50,000
children adopted in 2002. 50% of int’l adoptions are infants while only 2% from fc. Cost $7K - 25K.
Private adoptions in the US include expenses for the birth mother, agency and court, and could exceed $30K.
Minorities in fc and awaiting adoption comprise a greater % than their respective share in the population. Blacks are 17% of population, 49% of adopted and 55% of those awaiting adoption.
Number of children is foster care rises, length of time in pipeline is long, and few children are being adopted.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services: Objectives Reduce the number of children in fc and
increase permanency Reduce the period of time in pipelineFederal Adoption and Safe Family Act
(ASFA) offers incentive payments to States that increases adoption from fc above the national standards. Incentives appeared effective in raising the rate of adoption.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Michigan Six months exclusivity for the State agency, family
independent agency or fc provider to place an eligible child in adoption. Within 3 months, the adopting parents need to be identified. If not, the child is publicly listed.
Once publicized including on the Internet, the 53 licensed private agencies can compete. These companies provide both fc and adoption services.
Fix P’s are paid for placing children based on outcome, time, and the difficulty of the case.
The State imputes estimated cost for 8 prototype cases and adds an incentive component. The adoptive family can act as a fc family for the child for up to 150 days.
Private agencies handle 60% of adoption services and the rest are managed by the state agency.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in MichiganNo obvious success to the privatization efforts:1. 1991-99: total number of children adopted higher by 83%.
However, number of children available for adoption increased 116%. Ranked 5 lowest among the 50 states.
2. Advantages: introduced some competition to the process and dissemination of information on Internet. Private companies have an incentive to search for high quality and many adoptive parents. Greater choice to prospective parents now than before when a state agency ran the program.
3. Shortcomings: Prices set by the State and are not market sensitive. The State provides identical services for the private providers that compete with it. The cost per child for the State is of no concern; thus no managed competition features. No justification for the 6 months exclusivity awarded to the company. Immediate competition of all agencies could reduce time to adoption with no cost to the child.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Kansas: DescriptionPrivatization started in 1996 to benefit the children and save
resources following a suit by Civil Liberties Union: Description:1. The State was divided into 5 regions for fc. Bidding in each for 1
contractor for 4 years period and prices negotiated. Important that the child remains close to biological parents for possible visitation and reunification.
2. fc: Fixed amount per child and ranged among regions $12,860 and $15,504. Over time, prices were changed and adapted for children with special needs.
3. Adoption: Bidders compete for a statewide contract. Lutheran Social Services had 12 sub-contractors throughout the State.
4. Kansas Dept. of Social & Rehab Services established performance standards that will be used for contract renewal or subsequent bidding. FC Standards include max 3 placement moves and 65% achieve permanency within 12 months of initial referral.
5. Adoption standards require 70% are placed within 180 days of referral and 90% of adoptions be intact for 18 months from finalization.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Kansas: Evaluation During 4 first years, Kansas paid foster care contractors $105.1M
above the $178.7 contracted, and to adoption providers $31.4M above the $37.4 contracted.
Adoption provider lost $5.5M in the first 2 years As a result, revision of contracts to $1,958-$2,200 a month per child
for 1st year. The initial contract was unrealistic. Children in foster care more than 6 months yield loss to contractors since 32% remain in fc 1-2 years.
Privatization led to better data collection of cost and performance for both fc and adoption. Quality of both services has improved with 178% rise of budget.
Number of adopted children rose on the 1st year by 55% and over the 4 years by 78%. Ranked lowest 7th among the 50 states.
Improved service: case workers available 24/7 and 71% of fc children were now in their own or continuous county. % children in fc home rather than group homes and institutions grew from 67 to 85%. Unsuccessful adoptions were 2.4% compared with 12% nationally. Social workers can spend more time investigating leading to an increase in finding abused childre.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Kansas: Conclusions Fixed fee contract failed due to unknowable medical
costs and delays by judicial procedures outside the contractors’ control. Changed to a per month fee which lacks incentives for prompt placement. Performance, however, is still a base for renewal of contract.
Separation of the many fc providers and the one adoption provider creates inefficiency in the care of the children that experience a shift in their contact social worker. Allowing integration of both services could raise competition.
Longer contracts increase incentives to compete for a contract, leading to lower bid prices and/or better service. Longer contracts leads to more resources provided by contractors to improve efficiency. However, longer contracts enable contractors to exercise monopolistic power and reduce service.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Illinois: Background
Illinois had the highest number and rate of children in fc. Number of children in fc per 1,000 was 17.2 compared with 6.9 for the nation as a whole, 1996.
Social worker’s caseload was 60 compared with 25 nationwide.
The median of length of time in fc grew from 8 months in 1986 to 40 in 1996.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Illinois: Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Illinois: Description
Contracting started in 1997 to reduce fc population and achieve permanency.
Case confined to Cook County which comprised 75% of the state cases.
Private agencies paid $394 per case The private agency was expected to move 24% to
permanency The 24% standard was aimed to reduce the average stay
in fc from 56 to 48 months; a 25% exit from fc each year If more than 24% of its cases, paid still the same per
child and receive more children. In non-Cook County, bonus of $2000 for all children adopted above standard
If placement less than 24%, funding is the same for a larger number of children under the agency’s care and the State did not provide the agency additional children
Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Illinois: Evaluation
The FC caseload diminished from 51,000 in 97 to 22,000 in 03 (-57%)
Adoptions increased from 1600 in 97 to 3100 in 03 (+94%)
In the 9 years pre 97, 2-4% reached permanency. In the 5 years post 97, 12-23% reached permanency. In the first year it grew 200% and reached 300% in the 3rd year. Eventually, the rate declined due to the “hard core” of the difficult cases.
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Privatizing Adoption @ Foster Care Services in Illinois: Evaluation (Cont.)
Median duration in FC diminished from 40 months in 96 to 25 in 02.
Total nominal funding declined in 03 compared with 96 by 3.5%.
In 97 there were 42 private agencies and 3 state offices, In 03, only 26 private agencies and one state office: exit of inefficient providers and more adoptions. Illinois was ranked near the top states in achieving permanency.
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Privatizing Adoption and FC in Illinois: lessons Learned
Effective performance contracting brought good results: More children achieved permanency Lower caseload to social workers leading to better
services for children remaining in FC Growth of better performing private agencies and
elimination of inefficient providers. Realization of economies of scale. The system where private agencies provide both FC and
adoption services led to economies of scope, and avoidance of duplicating services and disruption to children.
Elimination of 2 public agencies and transfer of service to private providers.
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Adoption Services: An Economic Auction Model
Problems: Lack of resources for adequate FC of older, disabled, minority
children. Shortage of healthy infants leading to black markets and/or queuing
for 7 years. Surplus of children with less desired attributes. Public system is inadequate and inefficient while partial
privatization does not resolve the above two problems. Gov’t management is inefficient and does not address special
needs due to lack of market signals. Privatization partially improves the delivery of children. However, still greater efficiency could be achieved with ubiquity of information, and allowing prices to better match children and adopting families.
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Auctioning of Wives: Herodotus in Ancient Greece 5th Century BC
“In every village once a year all the girls of marriageable age were collected together in one place, while the men stood around them in circle; an auctioneer then called each one in turn to stand up and offered her for sale, beginning with the best looking and going on to the second best as soon as the first had been sold for a good price. Marriage was the object of the transaction. The rich men who wanted wives bid against each other for the prettiest girls, while the humbler folk, who had no use for good looks in a wife, were actually paid to take the ugly ones. The money came from the sale of the beauties, who in this way provided dowries for their ugly or misshapen sisters. It was illegal for a man to marry his daughter to anyone he happened to fancy, and no one could take home a girl he had bought without first finding a backer to guarantee his intention of marrying her. In case of disagreement between husband and wife the law allowed the return of the purchase money. Anyone who wished could come, even from a different village, to buy a wife”.
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An Economic Auction Model: Objective
To increase quality of matching between adopted children and adopting families.
To produce resources that will improve quality of life for children that are difficult to adopt and remain in FC.
Adoption is not a vehicle to improve equity of adopting families.
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An Economic Auction Model: Background
The three states that partially privatized the service introduced economic incentives to private entities that do nor exist in the public sector to fasten the service and/or improve the permanency of placement.
The privatization, however, does not increase the exposure of the children to more potential families and retains the excess supply/shortage of children.
Adoption of market forces could improve the matching of children, increase the number of participants, and prevent excess supply/shortage.
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An Economic Auction Model: Method
Auctioning is used by economists as a welfare maximization for the buyer and seller. It is applied for first time sale, thinly traded goods and services. Generally auctions are designed to best match and at the same time to clear the market. A fix price, like is currently experienced, causes years of waiting for the most desired children, black markets of children, and losses for families that withdraw from the process.
Potential parents are attributed by wealth which is observable and fitness which is only known to the parents. A test needs to be conducted in order to determine the condition of the baby. If potential parents have no test results and obtain an unhealthy baby then potential parents will be reluctant to adopt. The “market for lemon”.
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An Economic Auction Model
1. Make a health test of each child and make results available to potential parents.
2. Make a national market to increase the number of children and potential parents; improves matching.
3. Bid all children at one time. Sequential bidding leads to more conservative bidding at the beginning since the attributes of later children are unknown. Simultaneous bidding leads to more aggressive bidding of less desirable units.
4. Ascending prices bidding. Capped prices induces more participation of lower income families. Lowe income will bid higher in case of a capped price.
5. For the market to be most efficient, it should provide incentives that will reduce the other markets of private agencies and individual adoption.
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Privatization of Adoption: Lessons Learned Partial contracting out of adoption service delivery in MI, KS, IL,
and FL increased efficiency compared to Gov’t monopoly. However, the terms of the contract causes biases in the outcome.
In all 3 states increased the rate of permanency and reduced the time children spend in FC.
Kansas system of fixed price per child failed because of uncertainty in court procedure and medical expenses. The revised system of per month payment led to disincentive for prompt placement. It also created unnecessary monopolies.
Illinois’ performance contracting was highly successful in achieving permanency. It reduced time spent in FC, eliminated inefficient providers, and allowed more efforts in the hard to adopt children. It also raised competition between the public and private sectors.
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Privatization of Adoption: Lessons learned
All 3 privatization efforts still allowed large number of hard to place children to remain in FC.
The auctioning model a-la the ancient bride market in Greece assures market clearance. It is efficient in preventing shortage/excess children. It is claimed to be a slave market for kids; but the end result is preferred to the kids. It reduces gov’t involvement, simplifies the process by reducing the role of intermediaries, and generates resources for adoption of the difficult cases. Since all potential adopting parents are still screened, the quality of the adoption does not deteriorate.
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