Risk Management in Transport PPP Projects
In the Islamic Countries
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available to all tenderers. Potential bidders shall have a minimum period of 21 calendar
days to submit their bids. Request for clarifications can be submitted by the bidders within
the deadline for submission of their proposals, which shall be responded by the procuring
authority and made public to all possible competitors;
 Submission of the proposal by the bidders, including the technical offer and the financial
model intended to be adopted for the PPP, which will be subject of evaluation as part of
the tendering process;
 Opening assessment and evaluation of the bids and identification of the technical
proposals eligible for subsequent evaluation of the financial offer. Evaluation and award
criteria shall be specified in the tender dossier issued by the procuring authority. The
assessment results in the classification of the proposals and ranking of the first three
bidders and appointment of the preferred bidder;
 Analysis of the outcome of the bid evaluation and of the PPP projects by APIEX and
decision/authorization by the competent governmental authority to grant the PPP
concession;
 Award of the contract to the first classified bidder and conjoint communication to all
bidders of the outcome of the procedure. Possibility by interested bidders, to express
complaints and advance request of clarifications about possible irregularities that could
have affected the evaluation process, ranking and identification of the successful bidder.
Award notices are published online and all bidders are provided with the outcomes of the
PPP procurement process. A period of 30 days is allowed for the presentation of claims. A
summary of the PPP contract is also published in the Official Gazette. The full PPP contract
is however not made available to the public;
 Negotiation of the PPP contract that according to existing literature occurs on the basis of
a draft contract model provided by the overseeing cabinet of the Ministry for discussion.
Provided that a standard model does not seem to be in use, the PPP legislation is specific
in detailing the main chapters and content of the contract (WB, 2018);
 Conclusion of the PPP commercial contract including its elements (e.g. financial agreement
etc.), and its registration and subsequent implementation.
PPP contractual arrangements
PPPs in Mozambique may take the form of a concession agreement, assignment of operation
agreement or management agreements, which may assume one of the following concession
sub-types:
 Build, Operate Transfer (BOT);
 Design, Build, Operate and Transfer (DBOT);
 Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (DBOT);
 Design, Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (DBOOT);