Maintaining roads: Experience with output-based contracts in Argentina

Publication Date:

Jan 01, 2004

Sector:

Transportation

Region:

Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)

Language:

English

Type:

Document

Country:

Argentina

This paper examines the Argentine government's usage of output-based contracts with the private sector for rehabilitation and maintenance has responded to this challenge in its non-concessioned road network.The multiyear, lump sum contracts, funded by the government and the World Bank, specified required road service outputs and used incentive-based payment schedules to ensure the quality of the work. This report evaluates the contracts after three years in operation.

Maintaining roads: Experience with output-based contracts in Argentina Contracting for Public-Services: Output-Based Aid and Its Applications - Chapter 4

Liautaud, Gerard. 2001. “Maintaining Roads: Experience with output-based contracts in Argentina.” In Contracting for Public Services: Output-Based Aid and Its Applications, edited by Penelope J. Brook and Suzanne M. Smith, 39-45. Washington, DC: World Bank and International Finance Corporation. [#4469]

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