The Goverment of Sri Lanka has launched a Request for submission of Expressions of Interest to engage a consulting firm to assist the Road Development Authority as a Public-Private Partnership Transaction Advisor for the Southern Highway Investment Program.

The assignment includes advising the Road Development Authority to:

• Reviewing the feasibility study and preliminary engineering, including the proposed technical specification for the project.
• Conducting technical review the preliminary designs, construction program, and assess the reasonableness of the cost estimates in the feasibility study.
• Assess available PPP options, and analyze/highlight potential strength and weakness.
• Recommending a viable and realistic PPP option.
• Recommending key institutional arrangements needed to support the proposed PPP project.
• Commercial, financial, and economic preparation for the selected PPP option; analyzing and identifying the structure of payments to and revenues for the potential private partner, including any subsidies that might be required.
• Assessing the government's perspective on including local private and public partners in the PPP process.
• Preparing bid package for the selected PPP option.

The Transaction Advisor will provide consulting services over a period of 6 months. Interested consultants must prepare and submit an Expression of Interest. EOI must be submitted online or received before 04.00pm, on 31st January 2014.

See invitation for submission of EOI:

http://www.mohsl.gov.lk/web/images/pdf/EOI/paper%20addvertistment%20pppa.pdf