Fig 1.
The process of the tool development.
The different steps of this study captured the viewpoints of public and private partners, catalyzers and actors impacted by the public-private partnerships. PPP: public-private partnership.
Table 1.
Calculation of the weighted percentage of experts used for the analysis of the experts’ elicitation.
The weights represent the level of confidence of the experts in their answers. This calculation was used to validate the level of influence of evaluation criteria on the six quality attributes.
Table 2.
Presentation of the tool validated by the experts’ elicitation: 10 sections of the public-private partnership process, 44 evaluation criteria, and 6 quality attributes.
The sections represent the public-private partnership process organization and activities. Each sections is composed of a set of evaluation criteria. The six quality attributes assess the influence of the public-private partnership process on its performance. The evaluation criteria and the quality attributes were validated if 85% or more of the experts considered them to be relevant.
Table 3.
The six quality attributes of the public-private partnership process and their definition.
Those six quality attributes assess the influence of the public-private partnership process on its performance, and are influenced by different evaluation criteria. The high (score of 10) and medium (score of 5) level of influence of the evaluation criteria on the six attributes were validated during the experts’ elicitation as the agreement between experts reached more than 50% of the weighted percentage of experts (see Table 1). The levels of influence that did not reach 50% of the weighted percentage of experts consensus were between medium and high level and a score of 7,5 was given.
Fig 2.
Principle of the scoring process used in the tool, allowing two graphic outputs.
The graphic output 1 (the strengths and weaknesses of the structure of the process) represents the assessment of the ten sections using a set of evaluation criteria. The graphic output 2 (the influence of the process on the quality of the public-private partnership performance) represent the assessment of the six quality attributes, influenced by evaluation criteria. The scores of the evaluation criteria have been randomly assigned. PPP: public-private partnership.
Fig 3.
The two graphic outputs of the evaluation tool for the public-private partnership process.
Graphic output 1 is a set of pie charts (the assessment of the sections), making it easy to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the process. Graphic output 2 is a spider chart (the assessment of the quality attributes), representing the influence of the process on the quality of the public-private partnership performance. The scores of the evaluation criteria have been randomly assigned.
Fig 4.
Each of the six quality attributes are influenced by some evaluation criteria.
The level of influence of those evaluation criteria can be high (pie chart area in blue), between medium and high (pie chart area in green), medium (pie chart area in red). Some evaluation criteria do not influence the quality attribute (pie chart area in grey). The number and percentage of evaluation criteria per level of influence that influence each of the quality attributes are entered in the corresponding pie chart area.