The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has received financing from the African Development Bank through the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA) towards the cost of project scoping and packaging for Djibouti Development Corridor, and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for Infrastructure Project Scoping and Packaging for the Djibouti Development Corridor.
The services included under this project are;
● Review of longlist projects emanating from the scoping and planning session for the corridor,
● Review and group the projects as follows
● Group A: Projects which can generate a revenue stream with private finance opportunities and those that have recent prefeasibility or feasibility stduies undertaken, and proposed financing models developed;
● Group B: Projects with Private finance opportunities under development that could generate a revenue stream but for which bankable feasibility studies are required;
● Group C: Projects with development finance opportunities, which would be implemented purely as public sector projects; which already have recent prefeasibility or feasibility reports available with economic justification but will require public or development finance;
● Group D: Projects with other finance opportunities which could be a blend of income generating and public sector orientated projects, requiring support for project preparation and feasibility studies.
● Prepare project fiches for projects grouped above, with sufficient detail for presentation;
● Develop, the corridor investment action plan for implementation of the approved packaged projects.
It is anticipated that the assignment will be completed within twelve (12) weeks.
Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours [08:00 – 12:30 and 14:00 – 17:00] Local time.
Attn: Snowden Mmadi
Infrastructure Technical – Expert
COMESA Secretariat
Ben Bella Road
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel: +260 211 229 725/35
Fax: +260 211 225 107
E-mail: smmadi@comesa.int or SnowdenM@nepad.org
Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below by 14th November 2016; 16:00 hours Local time and mention “INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT SCOPING AND PACKAGING FOR DJIBOUTI DEVELOPMENT CORRIDOR”.