Senior Transport Experts Tender, United Kingdom - 38000398

Procurement Summary

Country : United Kingdom

Summary : Senior Transport Experts

Deadline : 12 Dec 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 38000398

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
Attn: Viv Lewis-Headlam European Bank for Reconstruction and Development One Exchange Square London EC2A 2JN
United Kingdom
Email :lewishev@ebrd.com

Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for Senior Transport Experts.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“EBRD” or the “Bank”) provides debt and equity services to clients across every transport mode: roads, railways, maritime, aviation, logistics and postal services. EBRD vision for the region is for safe, secure, sustainable and greener transport systems, which embody market principles, balance economic, environmental and social needs, catalyze on global de-carbonization initiatives, build on technological innovations and are responsive to the needs of industry and the individual.

Our priorities within the transport sector include:

Promoting market-based transport. The EBRD works to improve the efficiency, market-orientation, financial sustainability and resilience of the transport sector. This includes supporting the development of improved market regulation, transparent and accountable management practices, efficient market practices and effective engagement with private sector in the provision of transport infrastructure and services, including operating concessions and Public Private Partnership (PPP) investments.

Developing sustainable and greener transport. The EBRD is committed to supporting sustainable transport development focused on integrated, optimized and energy efficient transport networks in the region that provide quality and affordable transport services to effectively address bottlenecks and improve mobility solutions. De-carbonization and transition to greener transport solutions, climate change mitigation and adaptation, environmental protection, economic inclusion, gender equality, road safety and effective land policy and land value capture are all important sustainable transport issues, which we continue to address at the policy and project level.

Broadening activity and innovation within the sector. We are committed to expanding the boundaries of our activities in the transport sector to finance the needs of emerging sub-sectors and increase investment in suitable technology solutions and innovative processes that maximize value for money and promote innovation and digitalization in our client countries and contribute to the overall goals of improved transport services. The Bank supports green logistics and promotes innovations linked to energy efficiency, digitalization and electrification of transport networks to boost energy and resource efficiency of the sector while reducing transport carbon footprint.

The Bank-s transport sector portfolio in consists of hundreds of projects with loan commitments of more than EUR 10 billion in total. This portfolio covers a wide spectrum of transport modes, whilst the road, rail and urban transport sectors represent the largest share. The region-s demand for transport infrastructure and services has grown alongside the needs required by its, generally, strong economic growth and strategies for growth and shared prosperity.

The countries in the region seek high quality support from the Bank and the key strategic areas of our assistance are:

• Planning and programming of transport infrastructure and services, with particular attention to the reduction of economic imbalances across intra-country regions and to the enhancement of accessibility in urban areas;

• Strategies and mechanisms for managing, financing, and maintaining infrastructure assets (with specific focus on ensuring effective private sector engagement and private-public partnerships);

• Attention to externalities of transport modes, including environmental, climate change, and air quality issues and travel safety;

• Promotion of sound management and corporate governance by use of suitable regulatory frameworks, public service contracts, revenue mechanisms, management and accounting systems.

• Promotion of technological innovations (ITS solutions, transport on demand platforms, e-tolling, automated fare collection, traffic management systems, digital development in transport, innovation data collection mechanism) and commercial practices (incorporating private sector participation); and;

• Promotion of strategies for transition to sustainable transport and electric mobility, including integration of electric generation and cross-over projects for zero well-to-wheel emission and promotion of green finance solutions (eg on-site solar power generation, net metering, wheeling off energy grid);

• The institutional/governance setup and financial frameworks, and the rules and regulations in support of the above strategic areas. In addition, fueled by governments- interest in improving the competitiveness of their economies, the transport and logistics agenda has gained momentum as client government request Bank support in the form of analytical studies.

Framework Agreements for the Bank-s transport sector

Assignment Description:

EBRD-s Sustainable Infrastructure Group (“SIG”) delivers around 90 projects per year, investing approximately EUR 3.5 billion annually across a diverse range of subsectors, including electricity generation, transmission, distribution, storage and supply, rail, roads, urban transport, ports, logistics, airports, water and wastewater, district heating and cooling, facilities management, and solid waste management.

Within the urban transport and national transport sector, the Bank often engages individual consultants to evaluate the technical and financial feasibility of a proposed investment, in line with the Bank-s policies and requirements.

In order to support the quick mobilization and cost-effective delivery of these services the Bank intends to engage a set of senior individual consultants with expertise across transport modes to assist on a regular basis with technical and economic due diligence of transport projects and subsequent project implementation and procurement issues.

The EBRD intends to enter into Framework Agreements with approximately twenty (20) experienced consultants (the “Consultants”) under non-exclusive framework agreements (the “Framework Agreements” or collectively “FAs”) to enable the Bank to call upon a shortlist of pre-qualified individuals for which it can quickly and efficiently obtain reliable services in the relevant sectors. The selected Consultants will be expected to provide support for project preparation in all the Bank-s countries of operation (the “Assignment”) with a focus on the following eight (8) sectors:

• Roads and highways infrastructure, including roads, motorways, bridges and tunnels, transport facilities, electric charging systems, urban roads and facilities (parking, terminals), urban regeneration;
• Urban transport including road and rail-based transport (bus, tram, trolleybus and metro), including network infrastructure, fleet renewal including low and zero emission technologies and electrification, operating systems, parking services, active modes (pedestrian, cycling e-mobility) and urban regeneration schemes;
• National, regional and local railroad infrastructure including civils (tracks and stations), rolling stock (including fleet technologies and electrification) and operating systems (power, signalling, communication etc);
• Maritime infrastructure including ports, shipyards, inland waterways and fleets;
• Airports and air navigation;
• Transport operations and logistics, including intermodal platforms, dry ports, freight logistics;
• Transport sector digitalization, intelligent transport systems (ITS), traffic management, revenue collection, management information systems and smart city technologies;
• Transport planning and economics, including strategic planning, institutional studies and masterplans, demand forecasting, cost-benefit analysis and emissions assessment.

From time to time the Consultants may also be required to carry out assignments related to other transport infrastructure sectors.

The Consultants are expected to bring extensive sector knowledge and experience as well as strong market awareness on available policy instruments, sector practices, market possibilities and technology solutions, in both developed and emerging countries, including countries of operation of the Bank.

Description of Individual Assignments (Call-Offs) and Scope of Work

The Consultant shall be required to assist the Bank in a range of tasks in relation to EBRD projects developed in these sectors, comprising notably, technical and/or economic review. More specifically, the Consultants will typically be required to undertake any or all of the following tasks:

General Project Preparation

• Support the Bank-s transport portfolio in the region, addressing transport sector technical issues ranging from general transport sector institutional setups and reforms to policy development, planning, and implementation. The selected candidates are expected to provide technical expertise during due diligence and implementation of transport projects. The candidate will lead frequent field visits to project sites across the region, and review ongoing works, and hold discussion with counterparts, stakeholders in the country and in the region.

• Early project definition, screening, scoping and strategic planning (including sector strategy, investment prioritization, and project and program-level pre-feasibility analysis).

• Project preparation and investment feasibility assessment (including feasibility studies, due diligence, technical assessment and development of long-term investment plan and priority investment programme, economic analysis, investment appraisal and risk analysis, financial analysis and modelling).

• Green Economy Transition (“GET”) assessment and climate resilience assessment.

• Develop adapted policy and project delivery solutions for transition to sustainable transport and electric mobility, including integration of electric generation and cross-over projects for zero well-to-wheel emission and promotion

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