According to a "Strategic and Economic-Financial Study", made public during the launching ceremony of the public-private partnership for Aterro dos Mulenvos, the referred amount opens the need to grant the management of that asset to "private entities with capacity".
The study prepared by the Ministry of Economy and Planning emphasizes that, with the delivery of the operation to private individuals, the "State will be able to requalify a critical asset in the city of Luanda without having financial charges in the short term".
"In this sense, the best option will be to launch a public-private partnership that will allow the burden of investment and operation to be transferred to a private entity with technical and financial capacity", the document reads.
The authorities launched an invitation for national and foreign investors, individually or as a consortium, to participate in the international public tender for the concession of the requalification and management of ASM.
The ceremony was chaired by the Minister of Economy and Planning, Sérgio Santos, and was also attended by the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Environment, Jomo Fortunato.
Sérgio Santos said that Luanda produces around 3.3 million tons of waste / year, with "45 percent of this production having the potential to be reused as raw material for industry, 35 percent has the potential to be reused as fertilizers and the remaining 20 percent could be used for energy production ".
Luanda, with more than 8 million inhabitants, has been struggling in recent months with the problem of huge amounts of garbage in its streets and neighborhoods, following the termination of contracts with the collection operators.
For the Minister of Economy and Planning, the "first major investment opportunity" in the solid waste sector produced in Luanda is at the ASM, which is why the authorities are open to receiving proposals for public-private partnerships for their requalification.
The procedures for this tender will be launched on the electronic platform of the National Public Procurement Service as of April 30, he noted.
According to the minister, the second great opportunity is the development of business in the productive sector for the valorisation of solid waste in the province of Luanda, especially for those who have "differentiated waste collection projects".
"Namely with experience in collecting waste door-to-door, or in ecopoints, or projects for the storage, transportation, pre-processing or processing of waste," he explained.
For this segment, said Sérgio Santos, interested parties can submit proposals for "venture capital partnership" to the Active Risk Capital Fund (FACRA), whose expressions of interest must be submitted from this Monday until December 30. May next.
The investment in the technological updating of industries so that they can consume raw materials of waste origin in the province of Luanda and also in the financing for industries that intend to buy raw material of waste origin from Luanda constitutes, according to the government official, another opportunity with support for funding through FACRA.
