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Appropriate <strong>Risk</strong> Allocation<br />
This section discusses the appropriate risk allocation method. In <strong>PFI</strong> projects, it is necessary to<br />
decide how <strong>and</strong> how much of the various inherent risks should be borne or shared by the public <strong>and</strong><br />
private sectors.<br />
Current Methodology of <strong>Risk</strong> Allocation<br />
There have been many discussions about the risk allocations of <strong>PFI</strong>s. For example, the “<strong>Risk</strong><br />
Allocation Guideline” published by the Cabinet Office in 2001 shows the assumed risk factors,<br />
their considerations <strong>and</strong> the basic concepts of risk allocation between an orderer <strong>and</strong> contractor<br />
based on the principle that “risks should be allocated to the party best able to manage them”.<br />
However, this guideline did not refer to a concrete risk allocation method. In March 2009, the<br />
Japan Research Institute (JRI) published the research paper “Research <strong>for</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> <strong>Management</strong> of<br />
<strong>PFI</strong> <strong>Project</strong>” as commissioned research <strong>for</strong> the Cabinet Office, in which the JRI analyzed<br />
various individual risks characteristic of <strong>PFI</strong> <strong>and</strong> proposed the risks that should be borne by the<br />
public or private sectors, based on past cases of risk allocation. For example, the paper<br />
compiled the statistics of cases of risk allocation regarding different risks <strong>and</strong> categorized them<br />
in to the following: (1) cases where the risk was borne by the public sector, (2) cases where the<br />
risk was borne by private sector, <strong>and</strong> (3) cases where the risk was borne by both sectors. The<br />
result is partly described in the Table 9. (Japan Research Institute, 2009).<br />
As can be seen from Table 9, many risks are shared between both the public <strong>and</strong> private<br />
sectors. With respect to the risks, which were to be borne by either one or the other either of<br />
them, it seems to roughly reflect the principle that “risks should be allocated to the party best<br />
able to manage them”. The following sections explore the factors that determine the proper risk<br />
allocation in more detail.<br />
Proposal of the Framework of <strong>Risk</strong> Classification<br />
As stated above, the methodology of risk allocation <strong>for</strong> individual risks has been analyzed<br />
based on past cases of actual <strong>PFI</strong> projects. This section tries to organize the preferred risk<br />
allocation method based not on the experimental approach but on the theoretical approach.<br />
Also, it considers the utility of the proposed method by an application of the above-mentioned<br />
case studies.<br />
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