Ethiopia based firm with experience in roads sector is looking for partners for PPP procurement in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian PPP implementation framework aims at laying out a path to gradually achieve the long-term objectives of the Government of Ethiopia. To this effect, the Government has put in place a comprehensive PPP policy and subsequent proclamation and directive to govern PPP procurement in the country. Under the national PPP legal framework, Ethiopian Roads Administration (ERA) is responsible for initiating, developing, tendering, negotiating, signing and monitoring PPP road projects involving the PPP Board and PPP Directorate. However, the legal and institutional set up at sector level or ERA level has not yet been fully developed which prompted to initiate this technical assistance for the effective implementation of PPP in the road sector.

The primary goal of this project is to identify key intervention areas and build the institutional capacity of ERA to enable to effectively plan, develop and manage PPP projects. Some of the specific objectives are:

• To ensure that ERA has a PPP unit capable of initiating, developing, approving, negotiating and signing PPP projects.
• To strengthen ERA’s capacity in the PPP project life cycle
• To enhance and improve the key and functional areas of the administration and road sector; including at individual employee and group levels as well as system wide and organizational structures and come up with recommendations to create an enabling environment for PPP planning, development and management.
• To identify best practices in PPP management for road infrastructure by benchmarking ERA’s processes against those of top-performing road agencies.
• To lay out the foundation to establish PPP as a regular procurement mechanism in the long run to be used by ERA whenever the value for money of the PPP alternative appears to be higher than that of the conventional procurement options so that, PPP becomes the default option in delivering road infrastructure if it proves to deliver value for money in the long run.