Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project

The consultant supervision costs were the responsibility of the executing agency. As was previously noted, the delays in civil works resulted in increasing consultant supervision costs and the executing agency decided to terminate the consultants and recruit individual consultants. The consultants were paid by the executing agency and the change was made over ADB's objections. For future projects, it would be better for ADB to pay for consultant supervision, as more control will then be available for implementation of the project and, if necessary, consistency will be obtained by extending the consultant supervision contract.