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Design of the Performance Contracts legislation for the Public Administration in Portugal

Thematic Area
Water, energy and Food
Location
Lisbon
Application Areas
Industry
Scope
Business
Central Administration
Local or Regional Administration

Entity

Description

S317 consultancy members provided assistance to the Portuguese Energy Agency (ADENE) in order to develop under the Portuguese law a new approach to ESCo projects for public buildings, enabling to “buy” guaranteed performance in public administration.

The consultants designed and implemented a cutting-edge model of performance contracting for the agency, adapted to public administration.

Results

• General coordination of the project and link with the Government

• Benchmark of performance contracting in Europe and US

• Design of the project’s financial model for accessing private firms needs and requirements.

• Design of the technical legislative requirements.

• Design of the adaptation of the public procurement legislation

• Implementation of project’ pilots in Portuguese public Hospitals for testing the new scheme