Road concession in ColombiaAlmost three months ago, on 24 Febryary 2012, The 'Fondo Financiero de Fondos de Dearrollo' (FONADE) released a tender for consultancy firms to advise the government on the preparation of Feasibility studies and the structuring of certain concession contracts for four road packages.See tender website here: http://www.fonade.gov.co/Contratos/Public/ViewContract.aspx?IdContract=3054On 29 March 2012, 16 consortia of consultancy firms presented their offers to get one of the four packages. The packages were split in the following way:GROUP  1 CENTRO SUR. Corridors:(1) Girardot - Puerto Salgar - Ibague; (2) Neiva - Girardot and (3) Santana - Mocoa - Neiva.GROUP 2 CENTRO OCCIDENTE. Corridors: (1) Duplication of Ibague - La Paila;  (2) Duplication of Buga - Buenaventura and (3) Santander de Quilichao -  Chachagui.GROUP 3 CENTRO ORIENTE. Corridors: (1) Perimetral de Oriente de Cundinamarca, (2) Bogota - Villavicencio (Sectors 1 and 2), (3) Villavicencio - Arauca  (4) Malla Vial Meta and (5) Puente Arimena - Puerto Carreño.GROUP 4 NORTE. Corridors: (1) Caucasia - La Ye; (2) El Viajano - San Marcos; (3) Cereté - Cruz del Viso; (4) Ciénaga de Oro - La Ye; (5) Sahagún - Sincellejo; (6) Cruz del Viso - Arjona, (7) Corozal - Cruz del Viso;  (8) Puerta de Hierro - Yatí; (9) Carreto  - Ponedera; (10) El Burro - Tamalaque; (11) Cartagena -  Barranquilla; (12) Barranquilla - Ye de Ciénaga; (13) Quebrada del  Doctor - Puerto Santa Marta; (14) Distrcción - La Florida; (15) San Roque - Cuestecitas; (16) Valledupar - La Paz and (17) Valledupar - San Juan del Cesar.The experiences requested from the consultants side were the following:

• Legal Experience
• Traffic Experience
• Social Experience
• Environment Experience
• Communications Experience

Basically, the formed consortia have tried to bring technical, financial and legal capabilities so that they get the highest possible score.Following, we present the list of consortia that submitted a proposal to Fonade for the mentioned contracts:

• INYPSA S.A. + Consultores CIP Ltda.+ Q&A Banca de Inversión
• Euroestudios Ingenieros de Consulta + Deloitte + Duran & Osorio
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation + Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. + Structure Banca de Inversión
• KPMG Advisory Services Ltda. + KPMG Consultores de Negocio S.A.+ Consultoría Colombiana + Aecon Technology Corp.+ Araujo & Ibarra
• Ineco + Ernst and Young
• EM&A + TVA + CINC + PEYCO + ICEACSA
• TYPSA + Bonus Banca de Inversión
• Integral S.A.+ Integral Ingeniería y Consultoría SAS + Estructuras en Finanzas S.A.
• Proyectos y Servicios S.A. + IAAG Consultoría y Corporate Finance S.A.+ Advanced Logistics Group
• Aguas y Estructuras Sucursal Colombia + PwC + PwC Asesores Ltda.
• ANAS S.P.A.+ PROGINSA + C&M Consultores
• Ingetec + Ingetec ID + Sumatoria + Selifinver
• Tecnoconsulta SAS + AFH + Rios Ferrer
• GEFINSA Ingeniería SL + IKON Banca de Inversión SAS + Banicol Banca de Inversión + Leal Angarita
• R&Q Ingeniería Sucursal Colombia S.A. + Servinc Ltda.
• Gómez Cajiao & Asociados S.A.+ EGIS Internacional S.A.+ Inverlink S.A.

According to the schedule presented in the tender documents, the winners should be known in the next days. We will keep you informed.