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<doi>/ISEC.res.2017.22</doi>
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<article-title>A VALIDATION OF A RE-EQUILIBRIUM<br/>
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PPP<br/>
CONTRACTS</article-title>
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<author>AMIRA SHALABY<sup>1</sup>, AMR HASSANEIN<sup>1</sup>, and ATTER HANNOURA<sup>2</sup></author>

<aff><sup>1</sup>
Construction Engineering Dept, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt<br/>
<sup>2</sup>PPP Central Unit, Ministry of Finance, Cairo, Egypt</aff>


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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>A re-equilibrium model was developed which ensures that the rights of the Public
Private Partnership (PPP) project stakeholders are preserved during renegotiation and
minimizes the chances of disputes. The model develops the typical renegotiation
scenarios which include: increasing the service charges, increasing the concession
period, or paying a lump sum amount to the party of concern in order to maintain a
fixed rate of return and keep the return on equity constant. Moreover, a decision
support system was developed with the aid of Microsoft Excel 2013, Visual Basic for
Applications (VBA) programming language, and the Precision Tree 5.5 for Excel addin, in order to facilitate the process of selecting the optimum scenario which maximizes
the satisfaction of both parties (the private sector and the public sector). In this paper,
data is obtained from a case study of a wastewater treatment plant in Egypt, and
applied to the proposed model. The results obtained from the model are close to the
ones obtained from the Independent Financial Expert (IFE) of the wastewater treatment
plant project. This verifies and validates the objectives of the model.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Renegotiation, Scenarios, Model, Microsoft Excel, VBA, Wastewater
treatment plant.</p>
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