An Assessment of Factors that Impact Government Oversight of Public-Private Partnership Contracts of the National Iranian Gas Company

One of  success factors of public-private partnership contracts is the effective public supervision on their implementation, including standards to be observed by the private party to the partnership. In other words, a key element in using private sector’s potential is defining activity standards and precise supervision of their implementation. In this research we identify the factors that impact effectiveness of government’s supervision of public-private partnership contract, in addition to studying the principles and foundation of this supervision.  To this end, we first spcify our research goal, method and scope and then define the concept of optimum supervision and control. We analyze the role played by the government or public entity in BOT (build-operate-transfer) agreements. In the following section, we analyze contract management and method of supervision in public-private partnership. After defining the statistical population, statistical sample, and method of data analysis methods, we proceed to test our hypotheses. The results of quantitative data analysis and tests performed would be discussed in the next sections.  We will then proceed to analyze the results of our sudy,  Our research provides valuable insights on factors that impact government’s supervision and provides some suggestions for improving it. JEL Classification: K12, H42, H70, G38, L95 Keywords: Contract, public-private partnership, government, supervision, National Iranian Gas Company