The city of Medellin, Colombia, has awarded to McBains Cooper the contract to help improve the public-private partnership (PPP) skills of the local government.

The contract consists on training Medellin PPP Agency's staff in order to increase the professional capacity of the Agency to develop PPP projects. 

McBains Cooper has established a series of guidelines and frameworks, including key performance indicators, payment mechanisms and operational audit processes for PPP projects. According to sources, Santiago Klein, international director at McBains Cooper, said:

"The objective of the project will be to increase the professional capacity of the Agency by the training of its staff, which we will do in Colombia and the UK, so that the Agency will be fully equipped to implement the PPP projects and programs to be developed by the city of Medellin."

McBains Cooper has been involved in other PPP projects in the country such as the development of intermodal stations for a new light rail transit line in the city and the construction of Medellin Football Stadium.