High quality detailed designs, ensured through the engagement of competent consultants, will facilitate advance procurement thus allowing projects to start up without delay as intended by the advance procurement actions. With advance procurement action, the executing agency succeeded in shortening the time for procurement after loan effectiveness. Despite the positive effect, the detailed design was not prepared correctly, resulting in the technically qualified bidder’s financial proposal being higher than the cost estimates. It took time for the parties to reach agreement on scope reduction, which partially lost the benefit of enhancing readiness. Employing higher quality consultants to comple detailed designs, using government budget funds or ADB project readiness financing, before starting advance procurement could help to avoid similar situations.
Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2)