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eC2: Scaling Solar Ethiopia – Resource Measurement Campaign

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Deadline: 07-Feb-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)solar-energy

The Scaling Solar program (see http://www.scalingsolar.org) aims to accelerate the roll-out of competitively priced, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power in Sub-Saharan Africa through a coordinated, packaged and largely standardised joint World Bank Group (World Bank, IFC, and MIGA) solution based on a templated Public Private Partnership (PPP) transaction. To date, four countries have signed up to the program and more countries are expected to follow shortly. In relation to Scaling Solar Ethiopia, IFC intends to hire a firm to provide reliable on-site measured solar resource data for an expected 3 separate sites in Ethiopia for a period of 1 year. The firm is to install, manage and maintain solar resource measurement stations at these sites in order to provide bankable solar resource data in line with the details to be provided in the terms of reference.

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Imagining infrastructure services in 2017

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<!– <!– /sites/all/themes/blogs/templates/header/js/jquery-1.4.4.min.js –>One of my favorite songs when I was growing up was John Lennon’s “Imagine.” A few months ago, UNICEF created a project around it to highlight the plight of millions of refugee children. Now, as the year draws to a close, I couldn’t help but imagine a world with high-quality, affordable, sustainable, well-maintained, infrastructure services for everyone.

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How can Hong Kong stay smart and competitive? By driving change through a ‘Public-Private-People Partnership’ approach

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World Bank Blog – 12/14/2016Smart-Cities-All-you-need-to-know

According to the World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017,” Hong Kong dropped two notches to rank as No. 9 in its Global Competitiveness Index. The decline occurred mainly because the city faces challenges to “evolve from one of the world’s foremost financial hubs to become an innovative powerhouse.”

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eC2: PPP Viability Studies for Municipal Projects in Tanzania

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Deadline: 22-Dec-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The World Bank is assisting Local Government Authorities in Tanzania to implement a PPPsnumber of investments through PPP, in particular those projects that would not require any public funding (aside from land contributions) and might generate new sources of revenues for the LGAs.

As part of the project preparation, the Word Bank is seeking a firm to undertake studies that will assess the viability of the projects in light of the economic, legal, financial, market, socio/environmental, affordability and value for money factors. The studies will allow the LGAs to determine the projects viability, whether they should pursue a PPP solution for the selected facilities, and what form of PPP should be developed. The Local Government Authorities will be the Contracting Authority (CA) for the PPP projects.

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Mythbusters: Overcoming macho tendencies in funding toll roads- PPP

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I love the TV show “The Big Bang Theory.” It gives a sympathetic view of geeks, where the nerdy guy gets the beautiful girl—I just wish it had been made when I was in high school. I was the geek, without the chic. At the mercy of the big, macho kids, who seemed to have gone through puberty years before I even knew what the word meant.

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eC2:PNG Health PPP Diagnostic Study

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Deadline:  28-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is working with the PNG Departments of PPPsTreasury and Health to explore whether there is greater scope for the private sector to play a role in improving the delivery of health services in PNG. IFC has identified a number of focal areas where further diagnostic work will be undertaken to allow assessment of the potential for the private sector to support service delivery through Public Private Partnership (PPP) modalities. IFC is engaging the services of a consulting firm (Consultant) to undertake a diagnostic study to assist in this work

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eC2:Indonesia Toll Road PPP Program

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Deadline: 06-Dec-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)PPPs

Support the PPP program of the Road Authority of Indonesia with international best practices to:
1. Analyze the viability screening and appraisal of the BPJTs (Road Authority) planned toll road program. Help the client to analyze the potential of a group of toll road segments of attracting private sector investors, via public-private partnership (PPP) models or other approaches involving commercial financing.
2. Assessment on delivery of the Trans Sumatra by PT Hutama Karya
3. Provide high-level recommendations on how BPJT can improve its capacity to design a viable Indonesia PPP Toll Road program including financing schemes such as dedicated Viability Gap Fund (VGF) and Availability Payment options

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eC2:Interim Support to the PPP Unit-Lesotho

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Deadline: 10-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)PPPs

The Government of Lesotho has entered into a landmark Public Private Partnership (PPP) for a new national referral hospital and three primary filter clinics in Maseru (QMMH PPP).The Government wishes to ensure that these PPPs remain cost effective, provide reliable and timely services at the agreed price and to the agreed quality, consistent with legal standards, financial probity and management accountability, while maintaining good partner relationships with the Private Operator.
IFC has mobilized financial resources for the recruitment of a specialist contract management Consultant to support the strengthening of processes and procedures which will assist Government in effective and efficient monitoring of the PPP agreements

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