Africa-Press – Angola. The Executive plans to take to public consultation the process of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for the construction and management of municipal markets, said in Luanda, the National director for PPP of the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP), Augusto Dembo .
He stressed that the public consultation will involve public institutions, civil construction companies, professional associations and designers, consulting companies, financial banking institutions and civil society to assess the appetite of the market and analyze the existing challenges for the operation of markets, with the management of private entities.
Augusto Dembo made it known that, after this process, preliminary studies, business model, risk matrix should be prepared to assess the feasibility of the PPP project.
According to the official, who was speaking at the usual MEP briefing, the preparation of the tender procedure parts will also be carried out, as provided for in the Public Contracts Law and the launch of the public tender.
In the director’s view, the construction and management of markets will allow for an increase in spaces for the sale of goods and services, contributing significantly to the organization of street sales and fairs in the country.
He explained that the Executive’s forecast involves building new markets, properly infrastructured, as well as the requalification and addition of complementary services (restaurants, day care centers, parking, sanitation and sanitary infrastructure, banks, insurance companies, firefighters and police).
Augusto Dembo says that provincial governments have been identifying spaces for the development of municipal markets, under public-private partnerships (PPP).
The director stresses that all studies carried out point out, for every 100,000 inhabitants in Angola, the need for 4 markets, whereas, for Luanda, there are only 0.9 markets for 100,000 inhabitants.
According to the same, within the scope of organizing the activity of street markets and street sales, it is suggested that the markets be restructured on three levels, proximity market, with 200 stalls, city market, with 400 stalls, and supply market, with 800 stalls.
For example, he continued, the Angolan capital alone needs around four supply markets, 16 city markets and around 120 proximity markets.
At another time, Augusto Dembo informed that the 3rd phase of implementation of the Source platform, known as the digitization phase of the projects in the PPP portfolio, had been completed.
He stressed that the 4th phase, which will start in September, will serve to carry out structuring tests of pilot projects, with a view to integrating them into the Platform, thus allowing their monitoring.
“This platform is to respond to the financing challenges that public projects face, and it is not exactly for natural persons or private entrepreneurs to go there. It’s more from the perspective of public infrastructure projects,” she clarified.
Augusto Dumbo explained that the exercise to be carried out, with the inclusion of Angola in the Sourse Platform, is to attract private investment to the national economy and allow public investment projects “stuck”, in terms of infrastructure, because of the constraints budgets, have greater visibility.
The SOURCE Platform is an international instrument for the preparation, monitoring and dissemination of infrastructure projects, which will allow to increase the attraction of private international partners for the implementation of public infrastructure projects and to anticipate their realization.
The country joined the SOURCE Platform, through the French Development Agency.
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