Fourth Assurance Report on Public Infrastructure Projects October 2017
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Fourth Assurance Report on Public Infrastructure Projects October 2017 INFOGRAPHIC SUMMARY The CoST Honduras - Infrastructure Transparency Initiative Infrastructure was established with the objective of raising the transparency and Transparency accountability standards for public infrastructure projects Initiative in the country. Honduras I. General Information 1 PROJECTS INCLUDED IN THE ASSURANCE STUDY Gulf of Honduras Antillean-Caribbean Sea Puerto Cortés ⓫ Puerto Castilla ⓭ Trujillo Tela La Ceiba ❺ GUATEMALA San Pedro ❶ Sula Tocoa La Entrada Catacamas Santa Rosa ❷ Juticalpa de Copán Gracias Comayagua ❽ ❸ La Esperanza Cololaca❿ ❼ Valladolid Tegucigalpa Marcala ❻ Danlí ❹ EL SALVADOR El Amatillo ❾ ⓬ NICARAGUA ⓮ Gulf of Fonseca PPP (Public Private Partnerships): DGC (General Roads ENP (National Port Authority): Invest-HN: ❶ Tourism Corridor Directorate) / INSEP (Ministry of ⓫ Roof Rehabilitation of Puerto ⓮ Rehabilitation to Road CA-1: ❷ Logistic Corridor Infrastructure and Public Services): Castilla Superintendence Jícaro Galan – Sta. Elena ❻ Villa de San Antonio – Building segment Fondo Vial (Road Fund): Goascorán, Section I, Sub- ⓬ Construction of the Access ❸ Juticalpa – La Empalizada section I-B Lamaní-Quebrachal Area: entry/exit control booths -S077 Section II ❼ Improvement to Road Marcala of San Lorenzo Port ❹ Maintenance to Road – La Esperanza ⓭ Road Terracing Works and Sector 20, departament Rehabilitation to Road Drainage, in a lot of land (departamento) ❽ Tegucigalpa – Catacamas adjacent to the free zone of El Paraíso Section III (Río Dulce-Limones) for rehabilitation of the ENP ❺ Route 27, access to Trujillo ❾ Improvement to Road CA-5 containers pre-port in Puerto South: Jícaro Galán – La Venta Cortés ❿ Road Construction: Cololaca – Valladolid 2 AVERAGE NUMBER OF COMPANIES PARTICIPATING IN THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS Fondo DGC ENP Invest Vial 35 Companies 3 Companies 10 Companies 6 Companies Non Paved Road Network Rehabilitation and Terracing and Drainage Works Road Rehabilitation L 9 million Road Paving L 4 million and Paving more than L 150 million more than L 500 million CoST Honduras - INFRASTRUCTURE 2 TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE 3 PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROJECT COST: INITIAL AMOUNTS AND MODIFICATIONS (in million lempiras) 108% 199% 1187 1146 Cost changes Original cost % Percentage increase 0% 715 188% 22% 574 573 495 406 383 7% 199 162 174 8% 43 0% 13 14 9 0% 4 0% Cololaca La Esperanza caro aln Villa de Tegucigalpa Access to Juticalpa Sector 20, Works in caro aln Valladolid arcala a Venta San Antonio Catacamas Trujillo a Empaliada El Paraso Puerto Cortés Santa Elena oascorn Section III 4 PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION TERMS ACCORDING TO ORIGINAL CONTRACT AND MODIFICATIONS (in months) 630% 146 Cost change Original cost % Percentage increase 439% 321% 406% 97 101 91 0% 20% 20 24 18 15 15 18 0% 15 18 0% 0% 35% 6 6 8 8 4 4 2 3 Cololaca La Esperanza Jícaro Galán Villa de Tegucigalpa – Access to Juticalpa Sector 20, Works in Jícaro Galán – Valladolid – Marcala – La Venta San Antonio Catacamas Trujillo – La Empalizada El Paraíso Puerto Cortés – Santa Elena – Goascorán Section III FOURTH ASSURANCE PROCESS ON PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS 3 5 DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ACCORDING TO THE CoST INFRASTRUCTURE DATA STANDARD (IDS) 74.4% Global disclosure 85.6% Proactive 71.5% Disclosure Disclosure of traditional projects 85.1% Reactive Disclosure 83.2% Disclosure of PPP projects 87.4% 0 20 40 60 80 100 6 IDS DISCLOSURE (according to the procurement entity) 100 93.6% 95.2% 87.7% 85% 80.5% 78.8% 81.4% 80 72% 60.4% 60.1% 60 Proactive Disclosure 40 Reactive Disclosure 20 0 Invest-HN Fondo Vial ENP DGC Coalianza SAPP (Road Fund) (National Port (General Roads Authority) Directorate) 7 AVERAGE TIME OF THE ROAD PROJECT STAGES (of more than 150 million lempiras) A. Between Invitation B. Between Project Award C. Between Priority Note D. Between Priority Note and Awarding Notice and Works Start-up and Project Completion and Implementers Bidding Note Average Maximum Minimum Average Maximum Minimum Average Maximum Minimum Average Maximum Minimum 5.3 17.6 0.4 4.1 23.8 1.8 7.61 14.8 2.3 6.07 15.1 3.1 Months Months Months Months Months Months Years Years Years Months Months Months Villa San Antonio La Esperanza Villa San Antonio caro aln La Esperanza caro aln caro aln caro aln oascorn arcala oascorn Santa Elena arcala Santa Elena La Venta Santa Elena CoST Honduras - INFRASTRUCTURE 4 TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE 8 MAP OF MUNICIPALITIES WITH HIGHER INVESTMENTS IN ROAD PROJECTS (in lempiras) Trujillo GUATEMALA La Ceiba TocoaTocoa Victoria Comayagua Juticalpa Catacamas Santa La Paz Lucía Distrito DGC / INSEP: Fondo Vial: Marcala Danlí Central 1. Distrito Central 96.97 million 1. Juticalpa 86.29 million 2. Catacamas 68.76 million 2. Victoria 57.13 million 3. Santa Lucía 51.89 million 3. Danlí 41.83 million EL SALVADOR 4. Nacaome 46.34 million 4. Catacamas 39.45 million Nacaome 5. Juticalpa 40.44 million 5. La Paz 32.47 million 6. La Ceiba 34.13 million 6. Tocoa 32.11 million Choluteca 7. Comayagua 31.23 million 7. Trujillo 31.41 million NICARAGUA 8. Marcala 26.48 million 8. Choluteca 30.87 million II. Findings and Recommendations COALIANZA (PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROMOTION AGENCY) / SAPP (SUPERINTENDENCY OF PPPs) PROJECT FINDINGS RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Placing asphalt when it is raining can affect its Improve technical control of Tourism Corridor durability. the works (supervision and SAPP). 2. The information on the GMAI (Guaranteed Minimum Disclose information on the treatment of GMAI Annual Income) agreements and SEFIN’s fiscal (SAPP) and fiscal analysis of SEFIN. analysis regarding the toll collection has not been disclosed. According to the Grantor Institute, the social protests do not allow to charge the toll in the San Manuel booth, and have caused the State to assume payment of USD 20 million in the first year according to contract. 3. The information on the GMAI related to the sections Disclose information on the treatment of GMAI Logistic Corridor Goascorán to la Villa de San Antonio has not been (SAPP). disclosed, and the Grantor Institute has not been able to deliver these sections to the concession holder. This would mean the concession holder would be given 20% of the income projected from Lamani. 4. During the project design, the concession holder did Asses the cost of removing not take into account the geotechnical conditions of the landslides to date, and the zone, which could affect the State of Honduras, renegotiate the content of since according to clause 7.7 of the contract, the State clause 7.7 between the shall absorb the costs when a landslide or mudslide is parties (INSEP, concession more than 200 cubic meters. holder, COALIANZA, SAPP). FOURTH ASSURANCE PROCESS ON PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS 5 Logistic Corridor 5. When expanding the road in some areas, the Correct the slope of the causeway reduces its capacity to quickly eliminate the road surface. rain water which represents a risk for its users. 6. There is no supervision contracted for conservation Immediately hire a supervisor. and exploitation of the concession. 7. There is contamination due to liquid and solid waste Sanction the concession holder for not along the area where work is being done. And the complying with the reduction of the hydraulic area of the bridge was Environmental Management detected due to excavation material. and Security Plan. 8. There is no legal instrument to back up the application Accelerate the review of the of sanctions related to vehicle weight and dimension Draft Law for Automotive control. Vehicle Weight and Dimension Control. 9. Some bonds and policies have expired, this is a cause Manage the guarantee issuance and disclose for contract termination. the same. Tourism and Logistic 10. There is no consensus between COALIANZA – Legalise the contract Corridor SAPP – INSEP on the type of contract that should be status of the supervision. prepared for the supervisor consortium. FONDO VIAL (ROAD FUND) PROJECT FINDINGS RECOMMENDATIONS There was a change in the structure that supports the Disclose the reasons Improvement to 1. Route 108, Juticalpa - pavement: going from a granular sub-base to a soil- of the changes to the limestone type. And four work concepts were added in original design. La Empalizada - S077 order to improve the subgrade and drainage. Section II Maintenance to Road 2. The supervision, technical verification report and the Disclose information Sector 20, El Paraíso change orders for readjustment of quantities of works and key documentation closing have not been disclosed. of the projects according to the CoST IDS. Simple asphaltic treatment was applied on a surface Negotiate the rehabilitation of the Route 27, 3. access to Trujillo with repaired potholes, which will affect the quality section, preferably of hydraulic and duration of the work contracted. concrete. 4. The supervisor and executor are working on their Proceed with the signing of the own “account and risk” by working without a signed contract and/or addendum. contract. DGC (GENERAL ROADS DIRECTORATE) / INSEP PROJECT FINDINGS RECOMMENDATIONS Due to a lack of funding being approved, the order to Comply Article 62 of the Villa de 1. San Antonio – start-up the project was issued 38 months after the Budget Organic Law (June contract award. This generated a claim of escalation 21, 2004) with regards to the Goascorán of prices by the executor, and it was necessary to pay Administrative Priority Note. more than 20% for this concept. CoST Honduras - INFRASTRUCTURE 6 TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE Villa de 2. The contract has had several modifications, in terms Complete pending works in San Antonio – and price, and to date it has not been possible to implementation, considering Goascorán, complete the works. The project has been ongoing for that this is part of the Section I, 11 years, 3 months and 15 days (executor 1). concession of the Logistics Sub-section I-B Corridor, and for which the Lamaní - Quebrachal start-up of operations are the Government's responsibility.