منتظر كريم عبد الزهرة الجبوري

Abstract. The traditional project delivery systems in Iraq is unsubstantial, due to the delays and poor planning to manage these projects within the required quality and within the allocated budget by the public sector. Build Operate Transfer (BOT) approach, considered an option helps the governments to overcome the above problems. This research aims to determine the factors of applicability of BOT for infrastructure project in Iraq. The research initiates with reviewing the references about BOT and fieldwork process, which includes personal interviews and preparing closed questionnaire forms, the distribution of these forms to the sample members of the research to answer questions, collect these forms, and analyze the results statically. By discussing, the results found that the percentages of the factors affecting the applicability of the BOT are in three weights medium, good and very good. The percentage of medium Weight was about 9% and the good weight was about 19%. The very good weight was 72%. In addition to in this research, indicate the political and security stability among the decision factors as the most important, with 72.64% effect on the BOT applicability.