The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced tender on the design, development, construction, commissioning, financing, operation and maintenance of Almaty LRT (in Kazakhstan), which will be implemented as PPP. The participant must submit its proposal until 29 November 2018.
The private partner will be responsible for the daily operation of the light rail system and be the point of contact to the contracting entity, authorities, police, etc. in relation to the light rail operation.
The Almaty LRT will have 37 stations on a 22,7-km double track to operate over one of Almaty’s principal avenues, with an average commercial speed of 22 km/h. The LRT is expected to carry 76 000 — 112 000 passengers a day.
The private partner will be responsible for detailed design and construction of complete LRT system including the depot which includes workshops, operation control facilities and offices.
The project will be purely based on availability. Traffic revenue will be collected by the public partner and other revenue (such as advertising revenue, retail revenue etc.) will be transferred to the private partner.
The payments from the public partner to the private partner will consist of three major parts such as compensation of investment expenditures, management fee and availability payment (compensation of operation expenditures and consideration for securing quality parameters).
Here you can find more information on the tender.
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