Confiep requires private companies to participate in National Infrastructure Administration projects.

Last Wednesday, the head of the Cabinet Alberto Otarola, indicated that the Council of Ministers had approved the establishment of the National Infrastructure Authority and that the relevant bill would be forwarded urgently to Congress for discussion and final approval.

This body, according to the minister, will be responsible for symbolic works and will seek to solve the problem of a shortage of 117 billion salts in infrastructure what is in the country

In this regard, the President of the Confederation Alfonso Bustamante, He claimed that his union knew little about the project and that he had no opportunity to contribute to the debate about its creation.

“We don’t know much about this project. This is a bill that was approved in Council of Ministers and it did not have prior publication, which is an important element where interested parties could find space for discussion to improve it,” he said. News Extension.

“I’m sure we will find it, but at least there hasn’t been such a place so far,” he added.

In this sense, he indicated that he would seek to meet with the head of the Cabinet of Ministers in order to make a “contribution” to the draft law on the creation National Infrastructure Administration.

“We will attend the premiere Otarola say and do contributions to this bill in order to close the gaps and put the citizen in the center,” he stressed.

Private company involvement

Concerning the project for the creation of a body, the President trust emphasized that “he has excellent intentions”, given that “Peru’s infrastructure deficit is about billion dollars.”

“In Peru, 70% of the investment budget for infrastructure has been delegated by the central government to regional governments and municipal authorities. As a result, we see that year after year, and with great disappointment, these investment budgets are not fulfilled, and the money has to return to IEFleaving behind the basic needs of the citizen,” he said.

Accordingly, he believed that A.National Infrastructure Administration It was to be “vertical” so that “it could pass through all the devolved governments” and “may make these long-delayed projects viable”.

“Something that is recurring in Peru that has not prevented (…) is the terrible planning and lack of engineers that we have when it comes to delivering projects. Here are the additions (…) that produce cost overrun. We have seen before that huge abuses have been committed,” he said.

In this regard, he believed that a private company should have a strategic stake in large projects. infrastructure this new organism.

“In order for projects not to get stuck, they must have responsible company. Once the project is identified, exit the policy and proceed with execution. In the world, when someone wants to do a big project, they hireepicist‘, (i.e.) a company that is going to group all the specialties, is going to put them up for auction, will take responsibility and will ultimately be responsible, with appropriate guarantees, for delivering on time, on budget and in quality,” he explained.

“The world always does this. The private sector will not dare to implement a major infrastructure project other than this. I don’t know why the state thinks it can do it this way. Until now, we do it this way,” he added.

Canni Bustamante He stressed the importance of the National Infrastructure Authority “contracting what is called engineering procurement and construction (IPC)”.

“In doing so, we ensure that it has the right design, orderly procurement and all the responsibility of the company responsible for carrying out this project (…) I believe that this new body has an excellent opportunity to make this change and we will see real results in short term,” he said.