The role of procurement practices in effective implementation of infrastructure projects in Egypt

الملخص EN

The purpose of this paper is to report on a research that investigates the role of procurement practices in effective implementation of infrastructure projects(ppp) in a developing country, Egypt.

The research investigated and explored the issues and barriers to effective implementation of different procurement methods, the environment and its suitability for implementing different forms of procurement in context of public sector in Egypt.

Egypt has sought to look for alternatives to enable them to carry out projects of infrastructure without carrying the general public budget new additional burdens, so PPP is one of these good alternatives to finance new investments in infrastructure projects in all countries worldwide.

Egypt has signed three partnership projects between the public and private sectors in accordance with the law partnership of 67 for the year 2010 as following: New Cairo waste water treatment plant with capacity 250000 m3/day, which was completed and currently under operation, and sympathy university of the specialist and in Smouha Maternity and Blood Bank in Alexandria, but did not Reaching the financial close to date due to the local currency decline.

After reviewing the experiences of different countries in the partnership and there success, Egypt has should expand in these projects that fit the reform plan and economic ambitious that carried out by the Egyptian state.

The total number of public-private partnership projects has reached 52 Project from year ago 1990 to year 2018, with total committed investments for public-private partnerships 9826 Million US $ during the period.

finally, the restructuring of all sectors of the economy, the national agricultural, industrial, service and technology, and the development of Sinai, and establish a power plants to generate electricity from nuclear power in the Dabaa, the Egyptian PPP market should be more effectively, and return positively to the economy, and reduce the burden on the general state budget.