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Country:

Hungary

Project: TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Financing: World Bank
Abstract: FEREX PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) FOR RAILWAYS RAILWAY EXPERT
Sector: Consultants
Loan/Credit Number: Trust Fund No. TF030848; Project ID No. P100849
Contract/Bid Number: Request for Expression of Interest
Deadline: 18 April 2007

1. One project that has been discussed for a long time is the idea of a direct railway link between Budapest City Center and Ferihegy International Airport, which is now known as the FEREX project. The project was revitalized in 2006, when the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Inter-Ministerial Committee accepted the FEREX plan as a potential PPP structured project. FEREX will provide support and advice to explore options for private sector participation in the development of the proposed rail link.

2. FEREX is also considered to be a pilot project for several reasons: (i) while Hungary has ample experience with PPPs in the road sector, it will be the first railway project to be developed within a PPP structure; (ii) it will be the first potential Railway PPP project with a user-fee structure in Hungary; and (iii) it will be the first PPP project where the fiscal monitoring system for Government support to PPPs could be applied. As a result of the previous discussions held with the World Bank, support to the FEREX project could be provided through technical assistance on a cost-sharing basis.

3. The World Bank has received a grant from the Spanish Trust Fund and intends to hire three individual consultants (a PPP specialist familiar with the international/EU transport and Railway sector (who can also develop presentations), a legal PPP specialist, and a financial PPP specialist ) who will assist the Bank team in reviewing documents prepared by the Government of Hungary, and assessing the relevance of the proposed structures for the FEREX PPP project, drawing on international best practice, reviewing the business case for FEREX project. Part of the grant funds will be used for the preliminary design of a generic financial model suitable for potential inclusion into a railway PPP economic and financial toolkit, similar to the existing World Bank/PPIAF Highway PPP Toolkit.

The Objectives of the Assignment: As part of the World Bank Regional Transport Infrastructure TA project (P100849), the development objective of this activity is to allow the World Bank to provide guidance to the Government of Hungary to assess, and prepare options, designs, and the necessary frameworks for the development and implementation of the FEREX project under a PPP scheme. The knowledge and experience gained by the Spanish Government in the development of the successful High Speed train between Figueras and Perpignan represents a vital input into the design of the proposed FEREX project.

To accomplish the above objective the consultant will be required to: (i) to provide advice to the World Bank transport team to overview and to assess the relevance of the proposed structures for the FEREX PPP project, drawing on international best practice; and (ii) to assist the World Bank transport team in reviewing the business case for the FEREX project prepared by the Hungarian Authorities, including the contract design, and the bidding process.

Funding Source: The World Bank intends to finance the assignment/services described below under a trust fund from the Spanish CTF - FY07 (ECA Energy & Mining/Transportation/Water, Sanitation & Flood Protection).

Eligibility: It is envisaged that this contract will be financed, fully or partially, by funds provided under the Bank's Consultant Trust Fund (CTF) Program.

The CTF Program imposes restrictions on consultant nationality. Only Spanish consultants are eligible for funding from the CTF used to finance this contract.

Further information about the CTF Program, including definition of consultant nationality, is available on the Bank's web site at www.worldbank.org under Home > About Us > Organization > CFP > Trust Funds > Consultant Trust Fund.

Individual/Firm Profile: The consultant should be an individual or an individual expert proposed by a firm.

Criteria:

Submission Requirements: The World Bank now invites individual eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.).

Interested consultants are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest.

Expressions of interest should be submitted, in English, via email to: maudige@worldbank.org

Notes: Consultants will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the current edition of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers.

Selection and contracting will normally be made from responses to this notification. The consultant will be selected from a shortlist, subject to availability of funding.

Contact: Attn: Michel Audige, Lead Transport Specialist.
The World Bank.
1818 H Street, NW.
Washington DC 20433 United States of America.
Tel: (1-202) 473-4806.
E-mail: maudige@worldbank.org.
Web site: http://www.worldbank.org/econsult
Notice Number: WB1360-701/07
UNDB Print Edition: Issue No. 701, 30 April 2007
Posted Online: 3 April 2007