PhD Thesis

What?

Why?

How?

So What?

What?

Implementation Framework for Procuring Municipal Waste Management Projects – The Case of Indian Public-Private Partnerships

We saw that

1. PPPs are increasingly being used in Indian infrastructure, but its usage became indispensable in the MSW sector.

2. Risk management in PPPs is an important research goal across countries and sector

3. PPP procurement plays a key role in the successful delivery of value-for-money objective of MSW projects.

Why?

Need for the study

· MSW projects are suffering (poor compliance)

· PSP mode is used in procurement

· We see failures

· How can we achieve successful MSW projects using PSP?

Three specific research questions:

1. How suitable is PPP for procuring assets and services in Indian MSW sector?

· To understand the attracting and negative factors

2. What are the risk factors pertinent and relevant to various ‘energy from waste’ technologies in this sector and how such risk factors should be allocated?

· To understand the perception various stakeholders on the risk profile of various technologies in MSW PPP projects and risk allocation

3. What framework will facilitate the procurement of projects in MSW sector when the sector is characterised by various components of value chain representing different assets and facilities for delivery of MSW services?

· To develop a bundling analysis framework to support the procurement of MSW PPP projects of India

How?

Methodology

· Questionnaire survey and Case study methodology were used to address the research question

· Case study – 3+3 cases (bundling and unbundling)

So what?

Findings

1. We identified and confirmed that PSP including PPP is promoted because there was a Necessity and Urgency of the services, Greater benefit to public, Avoid financial stress on public sector, Achieve value for money and reduce transaction costs. But the results were incompetent procurement, High Transaction costs, Ineffective projects, Over exploitation by private sector.

2. There is a difference of opinion on some risk factors. These contested risk factors actually are so pivotal that it would change the course of the structure of PPP. We proposed a risk allocation framework and quantified the magnitude of various risks.

3. We proposed and confirmed that a decision-making framework having eight constructs will help the ULBs to structure an effective MSW project using PSP.