Urban water supply services have traditionally been provided by state-owned water utilities. In the past decades, many governments have tried to turn state-owned water utilities into effective and viable organizations, with mixed success. Why have some public utilities become more efficient service providers, while others have not been able to break the vicious cycle of low performance and low cost recovery? This report presents a framework of attributes of well-functioning utilities and how they have introduced key institutional changes.

This report presents findings on attributes of well-run public utilities and attempts to identify important factors that influence their performance. The scope is also largely oriented to utilities that serve urban communities, but with varying characteristics and service objectives. The report is primarily intended for policy makers in central and local governments but can be also useful to utility managers as well as sector professionals supporting utilities and governments in such endeavors.

HM Treasury, United Kingdom, July 2011. 

Find more related materials at United Kingdom Treasury Guidance - Procurement and Contract Management.

Find more related materials at PPP Procurement and Contract Management

Local Government Association of New South Wales, revised 2014

Local Government Association of South Australia has developed this toolkit to help local government develop some consistency in approach and tendering of solid waste projects.

By Dejan Makovsek, Stephen Perkins and Bjorn Hasselgren, International Transport Forum at the  Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Discussion Paper No 2014-25, January 2015.

Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), October 2014 (Spanish).

This report highligths the lessons learned in structuring and designing bidding documents for a performance-based water service improvement contract with a private operator in the water sector.

Public-Private Partnership Act (PPP Act), Act No. 29 of June 8, 2009 (S.B. 469).

Please visit the section on Public-Private Partnership Laws/Concession Laws on this website to find links to more samples of PPP laws and concession laws.  

Tracking Reference: Puerto Rico_PPP Act_ES.pdf