The Project planned to involve the reconstruction of 75 km of A373/4P112 Pungan -Namangan Highway at Km 0-75 road sections in accordance with the FIDIC conditions of contract.

Description of actual services provided in the assignment:

The scope of Services included the following:

1. Review design. Review the geometry, pavement, bridge, and other structural designs, drawings specifications, construction method etc., prepared by the employer. Recommend to revise or update the design for achieving greater economy, safety, reliability, and/or durability.
2. Supervision and project administration actions: (i) Supervise the contractor’s work and certify the contractor’s work in accordance with contract conditions. Ensure that the construction methods proposed by the contractor for carrying out the works are satisfactory. (ii) Develop quality assurance system and quality control plan, especially concentrating on provisions of asphalt concrete pavement. (iii) Inspect contractor’s construction equipment, results of material and soil tests, safety of the works, property and personnel. Inspect and test all materials and works to ensure compliance with specifications and giving immediate notice to the contractor to remedy in the event that such materials and works fail to comply with the specifications. (iv) Recommend the EA of the rates for any unscheduled items of work that may arise. (v) Certify work volume and process interim and final payments of the contractors. (vi) Establish efficient procedures for verifying the contractor’s performance and reporting progress and problems in a timely manner, including quality control reports, quantity survey records, requests for variation or change orders, requests for time extension, and contractor’s claims and invoices. (vii) Ensure project financial management procedures are in place and are strictly followed, specifically relating to payments, financial accounting, financial reporting and record keeping. (viii) Check “as built” drawing prepared by the contractor. Keep and record a complete set of as built drawings in paper and electronic formats for archiving in the Employers repository. (ix) Ensure that road safety design requirements are implemented in accordance with the contract documents and specifications. (x) Assist the EA for provisional and final hand over by the contractor. Prepare a project completion report. (xi) Evaluate contractor financial capacity during project implementation and develop a set of related performance indicators, review payment policy under the contractor contract, and provide training on financial evaluation methodology to the Program Management Unit (PMU).
3. Safeguard compliance monitoring. (i) Monitor contractor’s conformity with environmental and social impact controls. (ii) If the project involved land acquisition and resettlement, prepare land acquisition and resettlement plan (LARP) and supervise the implementation of LARP. (iii) If the project design is changed, prepare update LARP, environmental impact assessment report and its EMP and etc.
4. Reporting. Submission of all project related reports to the Client and ADB.