The São Francisco River Water Management Project can become First Public-Private Partnership (PPP) “Pure” of the Federal Government. The information is in the last Iradarpp Report, prepared by the consulting firm Radar PPP and anticipated every month by CNN.
The federal government has never signed PPP in the strict sense provided for in Law 11.079/2004 – the legal framework of PPPs.
According to the legislation, the concessions to private initiative with government financial contribution are framed. The highways granted, for example, are fully paid with the toll collection.
The Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR), in late January, launched the public consultation of.
The transposition benefits 12 million Brazilians, bringing water resources to four states of the Northeast – Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte – who suffer from the scarcity and irregularity of the rain.
The transposition of San Francisco is fully operational, but lacks centralized management. PPP has as its object the operation of the system – which includes, for example, maintenance and eventual exchange of pumps and pumping stations.
Partner of Radar PPP, Guilherme Naves points out as one of the reasons for the federal government to walk towards its first “genuine” PPP the exhaustion of viable projects without government payment.
Naves also points out that the government, although never signed a PPP, usually makes payments with resources from the National Treasury to support states and municipal projects.
It also recalls that federal management subsidizes loans from the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) for enterprises.
“We must highlight these cases. But the pisf [Projeto de Integração do Rio São Francisco] It is the first project that explicitly brings the figure of government payment in a concession of the federal government, ”he says.
In the evaluation of the partner of Radar PPP, the project in São Francisco is not a “out -of -curve point”, but an “starting kick” for the Federal Government properly.
There are already new partnerships in preparation, being the most advanced the modernization of the National Cancer Institute (INCA).
“It looks like the beginning of a new journey. The government is increasingly observing that PPP qualifies government spending. As the projects walk and the government is convinced of this, the projects gain a new scale. The Federal Government’s PPPs have already entered the assembly, ”he said.
