ABSTRACT
Health, and in particular all aspects of public health, are part of the rationale. The State must provide for the population all those services that enable it to enjoy the highest attainable standard of care. Public-private partnership is to a large extent perceived by public-sector actors as a loss of power. A public service is a service whose features, with regard to the needs of social organization and the expectations of users, are such that the mere play of market forces alone is unable to satisfy them. Private organization that owns its own structures and has its own resources collaborates, is associated and thus performs a “public service mission” as it is under contract to the State; it thus becomes a contractual public service provider. A Public-Private Partnership contract is a long-term contract whereby a public body associates a private-sector enterprise in the financing, design, construction and operation of a public structure.
