Invest In Public-Private Partnership Projects In Argentina

Recently the Argentine Government has announced 52 new project opportunities to be developed through public-private partnerships (PPP) under a freshly Public-Private Partnership Contracts Law.

These projects cover key sectors of the economy, such as roads and motorways (13 projects), railway (5 projects), energy transmission lines and related works (8 projects), penitentiary services (3 projects), health (7 projects), housing (1 project), and water distribution and remediation (14 projects).

It is expected that the government will launch the bi- dding processes before the end of the year, in order to start and develop the projects in 2018.

As a general background, on November 30, 2016, the Argentine Congress passed Law 27,328 on PPP Contracts, which was later regulated by implemen- ting Decree 118/2017 of February 20, 2017.