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In this document, Bechtel shares some of its experiences in implementing local content in the delivery of its projects and cites case-studies as examples.

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This is a Guide prepared by the International Finance Corporation in collaboration with Engineers Against Poverty that aims to help companies, interested in creating linkages with local small and medium enterprises, create a policy that engages local content in their procurement processes.

The document is divided in 4 chapters which are meant to be the steps to follow for a successful local content policy. Those are: 1. Company self-assessment; 2. Business drivers; 3. Defining local; and 4. Policy.

 

A_Guide_to_Getting_Started_Local_Procurement_EN_2011.pdf

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This document from the World Bank presents the results of a study done on the local content policies in the oil and gas sector. It explains how these type of policies although with the potential to “stimulate broad-based economic development”, have showed mixed results, and what their effects are in certain sectors of the economy.

The document goes through several topics such as what local content policies are; arguments in favor and against them; different local content policy instruments that have been used by petroleum-producing countries; and case-studies.

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The Law provides that local preference not exceeding 10% may be granted to Rwanda companies or Rwandan nationals or bidders in reginal economic integration bodies member states.

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This document summarizes the recommendations of a working group that the Colombian Vice-President Germán Vargas Lleras created - composed of the Colombian Chamber of Infrastructure, National Agency of Infrastructure, Road National Institute, and the Vice-presidency of Colombia - in order to devise public policies that boost and promote construction and consultant SMEs in Colombia's infrastructure development.

This ordinance establishes guidelines for the implementation of the Transportation Metropolitan System. Among its Policy Guidelines (Article 2), the document indicates that the System must be implemented in a way which mitigates the impact to affected operators. Likewise, the same provision sets out that the incorporation of the existing local operators is a priority.

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Ordenanza que Establece los Lineamiento de Política Municipal de Transporte Público Urbano pata el área de Lima Metropolitana_ES_2006

This document is a guide for Ecuadorian public procurement. It compiles certain recurrent practices in the field that either illegal, non-ethic or illegitimate, and shows the best way to address them by implementing basic principles of the public procurement such as legality, transparence, opportunity and equality.

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In general, this law establishes the principles and general rules that govern public procurement in the country. Within those principles, the law indicates that the public procurement process should encourage SME participation, including designing bidding documents specifically to do so.

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This article highlights the role of the engineering SMEs in Colombia, especially in the development of the secondary and tertiary network, and maintenance of the country's infrastructure.