• Approximately 60 million euros in investments are planned over the 30-year contract.
• The city will increase its treated wastewater from 25% to 90% sewer coverage.

The consortium GS Inima and Traçado Construções e Serviços, led by GS Inima Brazil, a leader in the sanitation sector, industrial water reuse, and desalination, won last Monday, the bid for the water and sewage concession in the municipality of Concórdia in the state of Santa Catarina. The winning bid was 12 million euros, equivalent to R$ 79 million, exceeding the second-place bid by more than 50%. The consortium’s commitment is to promote infrastructure works that will bring significant improvements in basic sanitation services, benefiting over 80,000 people living in the municipality of Concórdia.

For the municipality, this project highlights the commitment to promoting solid investments, enabling the universalization of sanitation within the timeframe established by the regulatory framework, which aims to be fully realized by the year 2033.

In addition to universalizing quality water supply services, the new concession aims to universalize sewage collection and treatment, increasing the current treatment rate from 25% to 90% of collected and treated sewage, as well as reducing water losses, which currently stand at 53%.

The consortium, led by GS Inima and Traçado, established in the sector of municipal, state, and national infrastructure, is the same that won a contract with the municipality of Ourinhos/SP to serve over 100 mil inhabitants with water supply and sewage collection and treatment services.

Commitment to the Population of Concórdia

The bidding process in Concórdia, the second-largest city in western Santa Catarina, strengthens GS Inima Brazil’s purpose of sharing solutions that enable access to basic sanitation for thousands of Brazilians through the collaboration of the public and private sectors.

All projects and works to be developed for the municipality will result in direct benefits for the population. In addition to the agreement, approximately 60 million euros, equivalent to 377 million reais, are planned in investments over the 30-year contract, with about 43 million euros in the first 10 years, which will generate hundreds of direct and indirect jobs, resulting in a legacy of prosperity for thousands of residents of Concórdia.

“Promoting this legacy demonstrates our responsibility and commitment in taking on this new challenge for the universalization of sanitation. Our entry into the state of Santa Catarina, in a municipality the size of Concórdia, fills us with pride, and together we will move forward, bringing health, prosperity, and quality of life through the universalization of sanitation,” Paulo Roberto de Oliveira, CEO, GS Inima Brazil.