This document describes a case of a Public-Private Partnership in a local city in
Portugal. In the last years the governments of Portugal used in an intensive way this
modality to do infrastructures of public interest and it’s known the financial
consequences which many of those constructions brought to the state, mainly the highly
value of costs associated with the constructions. But it isn’t just in the national
governments that this type of contracts are being used, since the last years the local
governments started to use this modality to do constructions that in the traditional way
wasn’t possible because of the limit of borrowing that the municipalities are subject too.
Because of the small dimension of these contracts, there aren’t a lot of studies about this
because the information is very difficult to get. However, the studies in this area are
very important, because if the contracts done by the local governments have the quality
of those at a national level, we can have in hands a big issue since the financial
consequences which could arise in the future for the population would increase and
could be insupportable for some local governments and it should be needed to start to
do renegotiations of the contracts to decrease the financial charges
