<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Performance-Based Contracts on Rational America</title><link>https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/performance-based-contracts/</link><description>Recent content in Performance-Based Contracts on Rational America</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/performance-based-contracts/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>How to Get Efficient Service Delivery Out of Public Private Partnerships (Without the Headache)</title><link>https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/how-to-get-efficient-service-delivery-out-of-publi/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/how-to-get-efficient-service-delivery-out-of-publi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The phone rings at 2:30 on a Tuesday. It&amp;rsquo;s your finance director, and you already know that tone. Capital reserves are flat. The arterial road upgrade just slipped back onto the wait list. And the council wants to know—again—how far the letters PPP can stretch before the next election.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Take a breath before you answer. There is a version of public private partnerships for efficient service delivery that actually works. It looks nothing like the glossy investor deck. There are no drone shots of shimmering hospitals. Instead, it looks like a whole lot of unglamorous process design, which is precisely where most deals go to die.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>