Sfantu Gheorghe Street and Lighting Rehabilitation Project

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Project Summary Document
Environmental and Social Documentation
Procurement
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Project ID 40634

Status Complete

Location

Romania

Business Sector

Municipal Infrastructure

Notice Type

State

Project timeline

Exploratory
Passed Concept Review
Passed Structure Review
Passed Final Review
Board Approved
Signed
Implementing
Completed

Project ID 40634

Status Complete

Location

Romania

Business Sector

Municipal Infrastructure

Notice Type

State

Environmental Category

Approval Date

12 Oct 2010

Disclosure date

27 Nov 2009

As per section 1.4.2 (iii) of the Directive on Access to Information: "For Projects approved by Bank management where the Board of Directors has delegated the approval authority, the PSD shall be disclosed at the start of the relevant no-objection notification period to a member country of the Bank in accordance with Article 13 (iii) of the Agreement Establishing the EBRD."

Project Description

The EBRD is considering providing a loan of up to €12 million (or RON equivalent) to Sfantu Gheorghe Municipality (the “Municipality” or the “City”) for a street rehabilitation and improvement of public lighting programme. Streets rehabilitation works will be undertaken on selected urban roads which may include renewal of asphalt and pavements, building new central pedestrian areas and upgrade of water and sewage pipeline along the streets. Public and street lighting refurbishment will entail replacement of lighting fixtures, existing high pressure mercury-based lamps with energy-efficient technology, and installation of central lighting management system allowing lighting automation and control and energy monitoring.
The proposed project would involve the implementation of a pilot programme to involve private sector contractors/operators in the maintenance of city roads through the tendering of performance-based contracts developed in conjunction of the implementation of the road investments.

Transition Impact

Transition goals of the operation include:

Framework for markets
Output-based out-sourcing: better value for money will be achieved by wrapping multi-year maintenance activities into the urban road maintenance sector under the Performance-Based Management and Maintenance (PMMR) multi-year contracting modality, to also include the maintenance of street lighting.
Transfer of skills
The technical assistance for the PIU, PMMR contracting, which will also include the maintenance of public lighting, will lead to a transfer of skills to the City’s staff employed at the Traffic and Infrastructure Departments responsible for design, execution and management of the road network in the City.
Demonstration
The Project will have a strong demonstration effect as this will be the first example of highly efficient street lighting (such as LED), with long-term involvement of specialist private sector companies.

The Client

Sfantu Gheorghe Municipality.

EBRD Finance

Up to €12 million loan (or RON equivalent) to the City.

Project Cost

Up to €14.5 million.

Environmental Impact

Screened B (2008) requiring an environmental and social analysis of the proposed project and a review of the Client's and contractors' environmental, health, safety and human resources management systems. The Project should mainly result in environmental benefits from reduced use of energy and use of environmentally-friendly street lighting units. Minor issues might be associated with the construction stage related to increased noise, dust and vibration levels and disposal of waste. The environmental and social due diligence will also need to identify and assess if the Municipality has an adequate EHS management system in place for carrying out the Project in compliance with the EBRD Environmental and Social Performance Requirements. In addition the due diligence will need to assess whether the client’s stakeholder engagement activities meet Bank requirements as stipulated in performance Requirement 10.

The Project shall be structured to comply with the EBRD's Performance Requirements. The Client shall develop and implement Stakeholder Engagement Plan and agree to and implement an Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP)" to be developed on the basis of the environmental and social due diligence. The Client shall submit to EBRD annual reports on environmental and social matters.

Technical Cooperation

It is expected that Technical Cooperation assistance will be provided to assist the city of Sfantu Gheorghe for:

Street Rehabilitation and Public Lighting - Technical Scoping
Environmental and Social Due Diligence
Preparation of tender documents for street rehabilitation programme and scoping of the PMMR
Assessment of actual energy and cost savings resulting from of high-efficiency public lighting and introduction and implementation of PMMR contract.

It is anticipated that the above TC assignments will be financed from the Bank’s own resources.

Procurement and Implementation Support

It is anticipated that the above TC assignment will be financed by the loan.

Transition impact

ETI Score:75

PSD last updated

18 Nov 2019

Business opportunities

For business opportunities or procurement, contact the client company.

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Text of the PIP

Environmental and Social Documentation is not available for this project.

Selected procurement notices related to this project may be shown below. Further procurement opportunities related to this and other projects, if available, maybe be viewed in the EBRD Procurement Portal.

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No complaints about this project have been made so far.

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