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这段翻译是有关公共管理方向的,我的翻译有很多不合适的地方,请大家指教一下,象PFI和PSC我不知道怎么翻译,烦劳大家一下了
万分感谢
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE PFI
"The Government sees productive Public/Private Partnerships as being key to delivering high quality public services that offer the taxpayer value for money...Effort will be focused where it will achieve results, cutting costs for the public and private sectors alike...The Government is determined to make PFI work where appropriate"
"Financial Statement and Budget Report", July 1997
1. PFI within the wider policy context
2. PFI project objectives
3. PFI and value for money
4. Operational need
5. Risk transfer
6. Market interest
7. Favourable preconditions for successful PFI projects
3 The Treasury believes that, to work successfully with the private sector, individual Departments and Agencies need to be clear about the fundamental principles behind PFI. This chapter describes these principles and the criteria Departments and Agencies should use when assessing whether PFI is a suitable procurement route for projects.
PFI within the wider policy context
3.01 The PFI transforms Government Departments and Agencies from being owners and operators of assets into purchasers of services from the private sector. Private firms become long term providers of services rather than simply upfront asset builders, combining the responsibilities of designing, building, financing and operating the assets in order to deliver the services demanded by the public sector.
3.02 The PFI is not about borrowing money from the private sector. As the diagram below shows, PFI is all about creating a structure in which improved value for money is achieved through private sector innovation and management skills delivering significant performance improvement and efficiency savings.
3.03 When handled well, the PFI can work to the mutual advantage of users of public services, taxpayers and companies seeking new business opportunities. However, the challenge is considerable. Only by setting out clear priorities and establishing a user-friendly framework within which both the public and private sectors are happy to operate, can the Government make the PFI work as well as it should.
3.04 The Government is determined to concentrate national resources on the most important PFI projects, aiming to deliver a portfolio of model transactions that provide a sound basis for future business. It believes there can be no better motivation for the market than to see a stream of good, profitable, value for money deals signed and projects underway.
3.05 The Government is also committed to take account of the needs of staff when considering the involvement of the private sector. It therefore places great emphasis on the management of people when evaluating PFI and other contracts. Indeed, the "12 Guiding Principles in Using Market Testing and Contracting Out", recently issued by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, apply to any PFI projects that might involve transfers of staff.
PFI project objectives
3.06 The Treasury's recently revised "Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government" (the "Green Book") highlights the importance of defining objectives and outputs for any project as precisely as possible:
"Each appraisal should start from a clear understanding of what the project is intended to achieve. Emphasis should be placed on outputs and how the outputs enable objectives to be achieved. In particular, objectives for the service to be provided should be distinguished from those for the means of provision." (p6)
3.07 For PFI projects, for example, this means the Government no longer builds roads, it purchases miles of maintained highway. Under PFI, it no longer builds prisons, it buys custodial services. It no longer always buys computers and software, but pays for managed IT services. The Government is keen to continue this switch away from asset-based projects to more service-orientated activity. It strongly believes that it should be judged on the output or services
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PFI and value for money
3.08 PFI solutions should be pursued where they are likely to deliver better value for money. In general, savings can result from:
• integration and synergies between design, build and service operation;
• innovative design, re-engineering, avoidance of over-specification
("gold- plating"), new materials or
more efficient management (including guaranteed maintenance at the appropriate time);
• efficient allocation of risks to the parties able to manage them at least cost; and
• more intensive exploitation of assets (additional revenues from shared use of facilities and sale of redundant assets).
3.09 In the early stages of the PFI procurement process, it is important to make an indicative assessment of the likelihood of achieving value for money. This should allow some understanding of the potential for savings through PFI. However, the final assessment of whether a PFI project represents better value for money can only be made later; once a detailed business case has been developed, formal testing of the market has been completed, bids have been received and negotiations are nearing completion.
3.10 Healthy competition is often the best guarantor of value for money. In most cases, value for money will need to be demonstrated by comparison of private sector PFI bids with a detailed public sector comparator (PSC). The PSC describes the option of what it would cost the public sector to provide the outputs it is requesting from the private sector by a non-PFI route.
3.11 The PSC may not mean the public sector providing all assets and services directly, but assuming some greater degree of involvement (eg letting and managing contracts for construction and operational services or raising finance).
3.12 The key is that decision-makers should have available a reference point against which to compare PFI bids. A PSC needs to be gradually worked up, refined and agreed in more detail during the formal procurement phase, and this must include a quantification of the proposed risk transfer to ensure that it includes the estimated cost of risks retained by Government. Further information on the development of PSCs will be available in a Treasury Taskforce Policy Statement - "Public Sector Comparators and Value for Money".
3.13 Value for money will naturally vary with different contract periods. The optimum length of a PFI contract will depend very much on the specific circumstances of the project. The Government's main concern is to ensure that contracts are long enough to enable value for money savings to be generated, but not so long that competitive pressures are significantly reduced.
3.14 In practice, value for money and therefore use of the PFI is a real possibility if:
• an underlying operational need has been identified which private sector skills could help deliver as a service;
• the likely project structure has the scope to allocate sufficient risk to the private sector service provider for efficiency benefits to be generated across the life of a contract; and
• there is an identifiable market of private sector bidders prepared to consider competing for the opportunity to undertake the financing and delivery of the project.
3.15 Each factor is now considered in detail in the following sections of this chapter.
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Operational need
3.16 Delivery of a proposed project through the PFI may be the best value procurement option if the Department's operational need is for a service, and there is no reason why this service cannot be provided by the private sector without interfering unduly with any aspects of future operations. For PFI, it is necessary to ensure:
• all operations could continue unhindered if asset provision and service management were undertaken by the private sector; and
• any necessary constraints on the private sector, for example, security considerations, are specifically identified in the PFI contract. |
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