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Projects for the integrated management of commercial and operational activities of potable water and sewerage by managements Lima North and Lima Center of Sedapal

Self-sustaining private initiatives under evaluation by PROINVERSION.

Vidal Abogados involved in the process from design project of private initiative and currently in the evaluation phase.

Problematic

Between 2010 and 2013, Sedapal outsourced management integrated business system (ACIS) sectorized the sphere of influence of the company into three groups: Lima North, Lima Central and Lima South. The SIAC had as its mission the management of the following activities: (i) making status, (ii) distribution of receipts and communications, (iii) home inspections; (iv) closures and reopenings, (v) maintenance of the measuring unit, (vi) customer service and (v) implementation of meters.

The results of the performance of the contract showed progress in water management indicators as unbilled (2009: 38.55% / 2013: 28.98%) and metering (2009: 69.20% / 2013: 82.52%); however, promoted under the scheme under the scheme of procurement of services involved a series of restrictions to achieve more successful results, such restrictions include:


  • Limitation of term contracts under the procurement regime

    The public procurement regime establishes a legal limitation on the term of the contract (three years, with some exceptions). This condition does not allow involvement given the short-term recovery and creating incentives for efficiency and technological innovation investments.

  • Unique purpose hiring

    The scheme does not allow to involve additional services of a different nature as creation and operation of small infrastructure, in addition to the services expressly contracted.

  • Securing workloads tasks assigned by the entity

    That feature precludes the actual assumption of management by the private, preventing proper planning and programming in the execution of services squandering well, experience and efficiency of the private sector to optimize the management of the company and the services provided for this.

Solution strategy

Faced with this problem, the projects submitted by contractors in the north and center of the SIAC, in the form of public-private partnership , pose the following structure which provides for the direct management of the following items:

  • Commercial Management: Customer; updating and maintenance of register of users; metering, billing and collection; portfolio management; control of commercial losses; real estate management and construction companies seekers water and sewerage services; updating and maintenance of register of networks in the geographic information system Sedapal; installation, testing and meter change.
  • Maintenance and Operations Management: maintenance of household water and sewer connections; maintenance of potable water and sewerage; preventive and corrective maintenance of valves and faucets fire maintenance; maintenance of storage structures, regulation, tanker and maintenance environments; coupling household water connections and sewage; control storage systems and suppliers; detection of non visible leaks and maintenance of networks of primary collectors.

Perspectives

Both have been declared private initiatives of relevance and priority by the competent authority: Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation; currently at the evaluation process for declaration of interest.

The Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation has raised the incorporation of additional components to the proposal.