영국 PFI사업의 교훈과 한국 BTL사업 개선방안 연구

Abstract

Since 2005 Korean government has promoted and implemented BTL(Build-Transfer-Lease) program, where private sector constructs and operates infrastructure facilities at its own expense, gets its return on investment by leasing the facilities to the government. Unlike BTO program which focuses on roads, seaports, railway and environmental facilities, BTL program focuses on educational, military housing, welfare and cultural facilities. This BTL program is similar to UK’s PFI(Private Finance Initiative) programme and it is safe to say that Korea borrowed, improved and implemented what UK offered as PFI programme as BTL program. This study is about UK’s PFI programme and its success. Information(regarding UK’s PFI programme) was collected through various sources, such as literatures, papers, and actual interviews with PFI experts in UK. UK’s PFI programme has been highly praised and valued by users and local residents for their excellent services. The success of UK’s PFI was possible due to several factors : the long-term contract between private sector and government, user oriented output specification and payment mechanism. Also harmonious partnership between government and private sector in PFI resulted in better service and increased efficiency. In order to increase user satisfaction, all parties(government, private sector, and users) involved in PFI put tremendous efforts on all phases of projects; designing, implementing, construction, operating and user satisfaction surveys. This is what we can call as a “true partnership” and we should focus on these factors and lessons from UK’s cases when implementing and operating Korea’s BTL program.