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IOC warned Rio on construction contracts 5 years ago --- Documents

 The International Olympic Committee warned organisers of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro five years ago that construction contracts they drew up could give developers incentives to cut corners.

This has presaged problems with athletes’ housing that drew complaints from several countries this week, documents showed.

Rio’s city government, responsible for the vast majority of infrastructure projects for the Games, has used public-private partnerships, or PPPs, to get private firms to cover the cost of building venues in return for permission to build real estate on the sites.

Rio’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, has taken pride in the fact that 57 percent of the nearly 40 billion reais ($12.3 billion) spent on the Olympics is private money, garnered by using PPPs on a scale never before seen at a Games.

Yet criticism erupted this week over the quality of the work at the privately funded Olympic Village.

Australia said housing was “not safe or ready’’ and other countries such as Italy, Argentina and New Zealand also expressed concerns.

In documents seen by Reuters, the IOC told the city in 2011 it needed to carefully monitor its partners because they might pay more attention to their own commercial interests than delivering Olympic projects on time and to high standards.

“The city recognises that the PPP contractor most likely has two primary objectives, maximize land value and deliver venue obligations at
least cost,’’ the IOC said in one of the documents assessing infrastructure plans for the Games, seen by Reuters using a freedom of information request.

“The city must be diligent in making sure the Games obligations are fully met,’’ the IOC said.
Rio city officials did not respond to requests for comment.

The IOC said in a statement that it was very supportive of Rio’s efforts to ensure the Games venues were constructed in an efficient and cost-effective way, while making sure that what was needed for the Games was delivered.

The IOC document reviewed by Reuters did not go into details about how problems might arise with the contracts, which marked a departure from previous Games dominated by public spending.

London’s 2012 Olympics was over 80 percent publicly funded and the Olympic Village was paid for using taxpayer money, with the government taking on the risk of having to sell the apartments after the Games. 

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