the combination of fuzzy electre and swot to select private sectors in partnership projects case study of water treatment project in iran

employer organizations have increasingly interested in outsourcing their projects in the form of public-private partnership (ppp) due to various reasons such as compromising the resource limitations, entering new technologies to the organization and reducing risk. choosing the private sector as one of the most basic steps in the formation of ppp is of great importance. the present study aims to introduce a hybrid model to evaluate and choose the private sector as one of the parties in ppp using a combination of swot-ahp analysis, as one of the most powerful tools in identifying the problem environment, and fuzzy electre analysis to evaluate the existing candidates to participate in the partnership using the criteria resulted from swot analysis. in first step, criteria set by an organization, as a case, to choose appropriate private sector were identified using swot method during various meetings with qualified experts. then, the best choice was selected using electre method. finally, obtained results were compared with the promethe method. the results showed the effectiveness of our proposed method to select private partnerships especially positive and negative inter-organizational and outer-organizational factors significantly influence the private sector selection.