City of Kharkiv, with the support of the Government of Ukraine, have expressed interest in obtaining joint co-financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank to improve urban transport in the city by expanding the current metro system.
The objective of the project is to improve the provision of mass transit in Kharkiv as part of an overall strategy to achieve sustainable urban transport in the city. The project is expected to finance an extension of the metro and upgrade the metro transportation services in the City.
The EBRD now wishes to retain a firm to carry out a feasibility study and confirm the proposed project cost of EUR 350 million. The objectives of this assignment are: to detail the route alignment and prepare a ridership demand forecast within tolerable levels acceptable for a FS; to prepare a detailed costing for a high-quality metro extension investment capable of meeting forecast demands in the City; to analyse Project barriers and risks, such as expropriation issues and/or construction peculiarities for the extension works; to prepare a full cost/benefit analysis to inform the decision-making of the Banks concerning further Project preparation; to prepare an environmental and social due diligence; and to prepare pre-qualification and full tender documents.
The assignment is expected to start in the second quarter of 2015 and last for 7 months, and the estimate cost for assignment is EUR 500,000 exclusive of VAT.
Approximately 519 million passengers per annum are carried by the public transport system in the City. Metro services are the backbone of the public transport system carrying over 40 per cent of all public transport demand.
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