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Brazil needs major investments in infrastructure in order to achieve competitive and sustainable development. However, the direct public budget – whether federal, state or municipal – is not sufficient to finance the necessary works and services related to highways, railways, ports, airports, energy, communications, sanitation, public lighting, urban transport, solid waste treatment, among others.
One of the biggest challenges facing the public sector today is finding new ways to unlock infrastructure bottlenecks and urgently leverage investments in the sector. To this end, new options have been considered and implemented in recent years, such as public service concessions and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP).
Due to the complexity of these new forms of infrastructure financing by the private sector, many doubts arise during the process of contracting concessions and PPPs. This is a crucial moment for the success of the process, since technical economic and financial studies are contracted, the form of privatization of the service is chosen through concession or PPP, the risk distribution matrix is constructed, the methodology for restoring the economic and financial balance of the partnership and the profitability of the contract (IRR) is defined, the notice and draft of the contract are designed, among other points. Poorly prepared and insufficiently robust studies delay the concession process and compromise the quality of the bidding process, as well as contaminate the contract execution.
Such concerns are heightened when the government tries to speed up concessions and PPPs. The contracting process is subject to scrutiny by the Federal Audit Court (TCU) at the federal level and by state audit courts at the subnational level, for assessment of legality, regularity and technical and economic-financial compliance. Therefore, shortening the time means having robust, well-founded and prepared bidding projects and processes within the legal framework of the sector and, above all, free of errors committed in previous processes, many of which have already been pointed out by oversight bodies in various analyses of the various sectors subject to public-private partnerships.
It is also important to learn about monitoring contract execution, especially in the processes of ordinary reviews, extraordinary reviews and economic-financial adjustment rebalancing. In this way, we make available the best teachings, best practices and current case law on the topics of public service concessions, PPPs and regulation.
With these training courses, participants will be able to update and improve their knowledge on the subject of concessions, PPPs and regulation, covering everything from the preparations to be carried out by the Granting Authority to offer the market a robust, attractive, technical, economic and financial project supported by the legal and technical standards of each sector, to the granting of the service to the private sector and, also, the execution of the contract.
As expected, considering the instructor's professional career, the training courses provide a broad view of the performance of control, both that carried out by audit courts and the monitoring carried out by sectoral, national and subnational regulatory bodies.
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