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May 2013
Ireland's National Development Finance Agency plans to launch the tenders for 12 schools as the fourth and fifth schools bundles PPP concessions.
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The Texas Department of Transportation has issued a request for qualifications on the $535 million SH-288 managed lanes project
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The Florida legislature has expanded the scope of the state’s PPP programme to include transit, social and wastewater projects
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering providing Eu100 million in debt to the Etlik Hospital PPP
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The government of Bangladesh has issued a request for prequalification for the Mongla Port PPP project.
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Exemplar Health is due to close the financing by the end of this quarter for the A$630 million ($616 million) Bendigo hospital PPP in Victoria, Australia.
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Partnerships BC has issued a request for qualifications for a new clinical services building at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, Canada.
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The UK's Education Funding Agency has put forward the five bundles of schools that it hopes will attract private financing using its aggregator model.
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The Public Infrastructure Partnership Fund has acquired a 100% shareholding in Bendigo Healthcare Group Accommodation Facility in Victoria, Australia.
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Panama has managed a major infrastructure investment programme from a small fiscal base through creative non-budgetary strategies. By Diego Ferrer, Grupo Verdeazul, and Mark Stumpf, Arnold & Porter.
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The city of Regina has shortlisted three consortiums to design, build and finance the C$278 million replacement of Mosaic Stadium in Saskatchewan.
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Skanska has sold its stakes in three schools and two street lighting PFIs to its UK employees' pension fund for £22 million.
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The government of Pakistan has launched the tender for the redevelopment of two existing hospitals.
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The East End Crossing is the largest availability-based financing in the US and Indiana’s first greenfield PPP.
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Regional interest in newly-rehabilitated Myanmar is intense, especially from potential advisers. Despite recent reforms, government will need to overcome decades of turmoil and underinvestment. By Antony Collins
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The Pennsylvania Office of Public Private Partnerships has decided to accept unsolicited proposals for transportation projects until 31 May 2013.
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The financing for the first phase of the Gebze-Izmir toll concession closed with an all-domestic lending group. It highlights Turkish sponsors’ difficulties with the complexities of international bank deals.
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Legal challenges have been one factor in the delays to Turkey’s health PPP programme. A new law is designed to ease the congestion. By Mehtap Yıldırım Öztürk, Çağdaş Evrim Ergün and Nigar Gökmen, Çakmak Avukatlık Bürosu.
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After a decade of delays, the financing for the Italian BreBeMi toll concession has closed. It gets around banks’ tenor constraints in a way that will be hard to replicate.
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An influx of foreign project debt and equity would help reverse Egypt’s downward economic spiral. But political infighting and constrained local debt markets mean that Egypt’s project finance market is going nowhere fast. By Emma Lindsay.
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The government of New South Wales is calling for expressions of interest for the new Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
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The Australian state of Victoria has issued a new set of guidelines for PPP project that permits greater use of upfront capital contributions.
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The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust has named Carillion preferred bidder for the £335 million Royal Liverpool hospital project in the UK.
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UK-listed infrastructure fund HICL Infrastructure Company has bought stakes in three UK hospital PFIs.
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April 2013
The University of Michigan is considering a PPP financing structure for the Ann Arbor campus and for its health system.
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Bouygues and Caisse de Depots have signed a contract with the Loire department for the construction of five new secondary schools.
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The city of Long Beach has issued a request for qualifications for a design-build-finance-operate-maintain concession supporting its civic centre project.
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Vinci has been appointed preferred bidder for the Eu270 million ($351 million) French dam renovation project.
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The Philippines Department of Education and PPP Center have shortlisted four bidders on its second schools PPP package.
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) has issued a request for proposals to design, build and finance the new McMaster Children’s Treatment Centre in Hamilton.
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PPP Canada has launched its fifth tender for infrastructure projects, with eventual winners receiving an allocation from the P3 Canada Fund.
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The ACS-led Rideau Transit Group combined short-term bank and long-term institutional debt in the C$440 million financing for its Ottawa light-rail transit project.
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John Laing Infrastructure Fund has acquired a 30% stake in Peterborough hospital from Brookfield Infrastructure Partners for £26.7 million.
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Exemplar Health, has been appointed preferred bidder for the A$630 million ($653 million) Bendigo hospital in central Victoria, Australia.
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Gary/Chicago International Airport has decided to explore a potential PPP to maintain and operate – but not own – the facility.
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Barclays European Infrastructure Fund II (BEIF II) has closed its 51% acquisition of the Vimercate Salute hospital PPP in Lombardy, Italy.
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The Nigerian government has increased its funding support for the N67 billion ($423 million) Second Niger Bridge PPP.
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Partnerships BC has issued a request for proposals for the North Island Hospitals concession in British Columbia.
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Foresight Group, the UK-based asset manager, has acquired equity in four operational PFI healthcare projects.
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International Public Partnerships (INPP) has acquired GVest’s 25% stake in the first Alberta Schools PPP in Canada, and now holds all of the equity in the project.
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) has issued a request for qualifications to design, build and finance the expansion and modernisation of the Joseph Brant Hospital.
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A consortium led by Italian-based construction business Impregilo has been awarded the 27.5-year concession for the new Trento hospital.
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The Indian government has approved and launched tenders for the design, build, finance, operate and transfer of four PPP road projects.
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A joint venture between YDA and Inso is shortly expected to reach financial close on the first project in Turkey’s $5 billion healthcare PPP programme.
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BAM PPP has transferred two more PPP projects, one in the Netherlands and one in Switzerland, to its joint venture with pension fund PGGM.