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ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
Assignment Title: Assessment of Land-based revenue generation opportunities to support Nairobi Commuter Rail operation
Assignment Countries:
• Kenya
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
The Kenya Railways Cooperation (KRC) owns an extensive railway network of 2,778 km of narrow-gauge lines and 605 km of standard-gauge lines in the country. It is also the second largest landowner, possessing large tracts of land along the railways and surrounding station areas. The Nairobi commuter rail system serves around 13,000 passengers per day on four lines totaling 155 kilometers. A large proportion of KRC-owned land is yet to be effectively utilized/developed to boost urban development and generate additional revenue which can support the commuter rail operation. Additionally, land abutting the extensive commuter railway line presents a diverse and largely untapped financing avenue towards unlocking the financing gap needed to boost commuter rail operations within the Nairobi Metropolitan Region.
The GoK is in partnership with the World Bank, in preparing the Kenya Urban Mobility Improvement Project (KUMIP), that aims to improve urban mobility services within the Nairobi Metropolitan Area and enhance the institutional capacity for resilient and green urban transport development in Kenya. KUMIP embraces a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) approach that seeks to enhance integrated land use planning and transportation planning towards enhancing the development of vibrant communities around railway transit nodes, therefore in essence increasing the usability and effectiveness of the rail as a primary public transport mode. KUMIP will also support GoK’s ongoing effort in urban mobility sector reform. Therefore, as part of KUMIP project preparation, the assignment will seek to understand land-based revenue generation opportunities that can be harnessed by the Kenya Railways and County Governments in the NMA.
The specific objectives of the assignment are:
1. To assess the specific legal and regulatory restrictions and opportunities at both national and county level regarding land revenue extraction for parastatals like KRC, in comparison to county and national government agencies.
2. To assess the opportunities of land‐based revenue generation for Kenya Railway Corporation and county governments in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area as a result of improved service and TOD investments on the Nairobi Commuter Railway Network
Scope of work is detailed in the attached TORs.
The outputs of the assignment shall provide guidance to KRC on the opportunities for implementing LVC mechanisms towards generation of additional financial resources, in supporting the development and operations of commuter railway operation in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area operations. In addition, this study will advise the KUMIP team in identifying readily accessible LVC opportunities on KRC lands as a first step of implementation of Land-Value Capture.
FUNDING SOURCE
The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment / services described below under the following:
• Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership
ELIGIBILITY
Individual/Firm: The consultant will be a firm or consortium of firms that meet the following qualification criteria
QUALIFICATION CRITERIA
a. Core business and years in business: The lead bidding firm shall be registered/incorporated as a consulting firm with core business in Finance and Transport Studies or equivalent for at least 5 years.
b. Relevant experience: The bidding firm/consortium shall demonstrate it as having successfully executed and completed assignments of a similar nature, complexity and in a similar operating environment within the last 10 years. Details of similar assignments, scope, value, and period should be provided at EOI stage.
c. Technical and managerial capability of the firm: The firm shall demonstrate as having the requisite technical capacity and managerial capacity to undertake the assignment in the submitted EoI/company profile(s). Demonstrated capacity to deliver, under conditions of limited data availability, technical tools that are acceptable and valued by the sector agencies, that have been applied and form the standards for the current and future applications at national or regional level (minimum of 5 relevant examples);
d. Qualified key staff
e. Additional vendor requirements:
- Prior experience with supporting real estate processes and transactions in the Kenyan market, and specifically, in NMA, is required.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Kenyan land and real estate market is required (either in-house or through an affiliation with a subject matter expert or a specialized partner firm).
- Experience advising public sector entities in Kenya on policy and regulatory analyses.
- Access to subject matter international expertise in best practices on regulatory aspects of land and real estate-based fees in urban contexts.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English is required.
- Local presence and/ or flexibility to travel to Nairobi on demand.
- Proven records on capacity building and training
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills (clear evidence will be drawn from the examples already provided);
- Good written and verbal command (note – the quality of the EoI submission will evidence these skills and will be used as part of the selection criteria);
The Consultant is expected to be a firm or an association of consulting firms with the appropriate capabilities and experiences to provide the services. This assignment requires a team of international and national experts/consultants to ensure the integration of international and national best practices and standards into the study. The Consultant Team may propose additional technical experts to improve the quality of the output.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The World Bank invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services. The total size of the main expression of interest should be no more than 10 pages. Short project summaries may be provided as an appendix, but each project must be referenced with the main text, relevant in meeting the outlined criteria, and no more than one A4 page in length.
Following this invitation for Expression of Interest, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit technical and financial proposals.
NOTES
Expressions of Interest should be submitted in English, electronically through WBGeProcure RFx Now
Following this invitation for EOI, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding.
Only those firms which have been shortlisted will be invited to participate in the RFP phase. No notification or debrief will be provided to firms which have not been shortlisted.
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