Alireza Ahmadi Nodooshan - Yazd Gas Company, Advisor to Managing Director, Yazd, Iran

One of effective components on success of public-private partnership contracts is status of policymakingand supervision on implementing those standards the private party to the partnership is obligedto observe. In other words, a key element in using private sector’s potential is defining activity standardsand precise supervision of their implementation.In the research effort has been made to identify effective factors on government’s supervision interms of public-private partnership contract, in addition to studying supervision’s principles andfoundation. In this respect, concept of optimum supervision and control would be primarily analyzed.Then, the role played by government or public institute in BOT (build-operate-transfer) would bestudied. In next section, contract management and method of supervision in public-private partnershipwould be analyzed. Then, research goal, method and scope would be specified. After explainingstatistical population, statistical sample, and method of sampling, data analysis methods would be dealtwith and hypotheses would be tested. The results from quantitative data analysis and tests performedwould be discussed in next sections. In continuation, research hypotheses would be studied andanalytical results would be presented. Effective factors on government’s supervision and somepropositions to improve this in public-private partnership are from achievements of the research.

Contract, public-private partnership, government, supervision, National Iranian GasCompany