The bill for the New Year’s Eve party in Rio de Janeiro is already closed. The cost will be R$15.142 million, with the city hall paying most of the bill and only R$3 million will come from two sponsors. The account was only closed this Tuesday night (28th) with the last contract that was missing: half of the fireworks points.
The auction for the company that would organize the fires in Sepetiba, Piscinão de Ramos, Ilha do Governador, Parque Madureira and Bangu had been scheduled for the 23rd, but due to a problem in the system, it was postponed to the 24th. higher than what was quoted, canceling the competition.
Now the city is making an emergency contract to handle the service in the amount of R$ 499 thousand. The winner was the company Inside FX, which had already been contracted for the Flamengo and Nossa Senhora da Penha fires. Riotur informed in a note that “tomorrow, 12/29/21, the hiring of the company will be published in the Official Gazette”.
In an interview with CNN, the owner of the contracted company said that he would like to have more time to prepare the fireworks show, but guaranteed that there are no technical risks or problems with the fireworks.
“There may be a risk of one or another authority not releasing the show due to the timely authorizations. The amount of documents needed to obtain authorization from the Civil Police is enormous. There are at least 15 documents. After the Police, you go to the Fire Department, and there is also the Captaincy of Ports, which needs a shipping agency for the procedures between the ferry and fireworks companies”, said Flávio Ribeiro Ferreira, from Inside Fx.
“Is everything too high? It is. I’m not happy as a manager because everything is very busy and I wish I had more time for all of this”, he added to CNN while following the assembly of equipment.
Most of the party’s expenses will be related to the hiring of the company SR-Com for R$9.3 million. The company had won the bid to promote the Copacabana party in the original model, with shows on three stages, but the contract was canceled — as the company said. CNN in early December.
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Riotur claimed ‘change in the scope of the notice’ and ended up hiring the company directly and urgently claiming ‘technical capacity, notorious knowledge and uniqueness of the event’.
The account also takes into account more than R$ 4 million spent on ferries, of which ten will be in Copacabana and another three on Flamengo beach. The municipality also set aside R$ 350,000 as a form of financial support for the Union of Hotels and Accommodation in Rio de Janeiro, which will promote fireworks in Barra da Tijuca and Recreio, both in the West zone.
The bill does not take into account the structure of public forces committed to protecting people, blocking traffic and inspecting bars, restaurants and fireworks.
Reference: CNN Brasil
