News about Public-Private Partnerships from ART DE LEX

The most current issue of Public-Private Partnership Projects, from ART DE LEX, contains a wealth of information about ongoing and planned PPP projects.

• ROSAVTODOR has announced an open tender for financing, constructing, and operating the third and fourth portions of the Central Ring Road of the Moscow Region and the construction, maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of the fifth section. Contracts for the third and fourth sections will be complete by December 2015, and ROSAVTODOR will announce the winning bid for the fifth segment in the second half of November 2014.
• In a few weeks, the Moscow City Government will commence bidding for a contract to construct 1,500 new subway cars and expects to purchase 3,000 cars by 2020.
• The reconstruction of the Simferopol Airport is in the planning stages and is expected to cost RUB 12.9 billion.
• A toll road to Moscow's Domodedovo airport, with an expected date of completion in 2018, will cost approximately RUB 13 billion, 20 percent of which will rely on private investors.
• A solid waste facility for the Lipetsk Region is in the bidding stage, and several others are in the planning stages for the Republic of Karelia.
• Russia and China are cooperating, on the basis of a public-private partnership, to construct a Moscow-Kazan high-speed rail line that will reach speeds of 350 mph.  It will be part of a high-speed rail network that eventually will link the two countries.
• The Moscow City Government has extended the deadlines for the bidding stage of the 11-kilometer Kutuzovskiy Prospekt northern relief road.  
• Several roadway projects are nearly complete.  The new section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway to the Sheremetyevo Airport will open on 23 December 2014, with tolls to begin in 2015. Furthermore, the last toll point on the Odintsovo Bypass of the M-1 is ready to begin operating at the end of this year.  Finally, the central section of the Western High-Speed Diameter in St. Petersburg should be finished by the middle of 2016.
• There are several recent legal developments regarding PPP. The Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Yugra has adopted amendments to improve the procedures for concluding public-private partnerships. The Leningrad Oblast now exempts investors who have concluded concession agreements with the oblast from taxes on properties specified in the agreements. ROSAVTODOR has defined the procedures for selecting the form of PPP for paid and free roads from among five alternatives. Vedomosti reported that tolls for heavy trucks on federal highways will help fund regional investment initiatives, including roads.  In October in the State Council, President Vladimir Putin ordered the creation of a program to develop highways, including those at the regional and municipal levels, using the Moscow Ring Road and its PPP program as a precedent.
• In November 2014, the PPP Center of the federal Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Communal Services will open its doors in order to provide administrative support to PPP projects.

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