Road Development Contract E6 Helgeland Presentation for Contractors November 9, 2010
E6 Helgeland - Challenges • Narrow road • Poor alignment – sharp Inefficient transportation curves High costs induced on • Narrow sections – bottle industry and commerce necks • Low bearing strength Approximately 40 traffic accidents with injuries per • Frost heaves year • Many accesses (private entrances) 2-3 fatalities per year
E6 Helgeland Status 1 1 8 0 m ill NOK • Appr. 50 km new road 2 4 0 m ill NOK with approved plans • Appr. 150 km of road improved according to adopted standard 8 4 0 m ill NOK • Appr. 60 km of road with sufficient standard 1 0 9 0 m ill NOK 5 7 0 m ill NOK
Measures on Various Road Sections Smaller improvements New road New road Improvement of existing road Walk/bike road – Traffic safety measures Improvement of existing road New road Smaller improvements Improvement of existing road Smaller improvements
E6 Helgeland - Financing State appropriations Mill NOK NTP 2010-2019 1700 NTP 2020-2022 500 Programs 260 Maintenance appropriation 2011-2013 340 Total amount State appropriation 2800 Toll collection sites are shown on the map Site Krokstrand, price 40 Nok per car 145 Site Reinforshei, price 40 Nok per car 300 Site Skamdal, price 15 Nok 175 Site Bru Fusta, price 20 Nok per car 155 Site Vefsn/Grane, price 25 Nok per car 205 Site Svenningvatn, price 25 nok per car 140 Total amount Toll collection 1120 Total amount 3920 Toll collection share 29 %
Proposed State Budget 2011 • Page 75: ”A Contract type which has not been used until now in Norway, is a so-called development contract… The NPRA considers the possibility to make use of such a contract type for E6 Helgelenad… ” • Page 208: More text • Side 201: ”It is desirable to consider building, maintenance and operation for a longer road section in a comprehensive manner… .”
Targets for development – level and standards related to improvements • Road width min. 8.5 where improvements are implemented, bridges with widths less than 7.5 m are improved • Min. horizontal curvature 150 m - “problem hills” will be improved • Bearing strength minimum 10 tons and frost heave points will be repaired • Walk/ bikeroads are constructed around towns, between built-up areas and along roads with pupils walking to school. • Construction of parking/ rest areas for truckers. • Improvement of rest areas for motorists. • Assigned public transportation terminals will be designed according to “guidelines for universal design” (for people with impaired ability to move and impaired vision) • Requirements for stopping distance will be met. Objects preventing view will be removed or secured. Forest and brushes will be cleared along 10 m belts on both sides of the road. • Guard Rails will be repaired and improved. • Local accesses will be concentrated to reduce the number of intersections to improve traffic safety. • Signs will be replaced to meet the standard requirements of the manuals issued by the NPRA
Road Development Contract
E6 Helgeland Development Contract – some Principles • Combining Building – Improvement – Operation – Maintenance activities in the same contract, NPRA has never tried this before. • Contract length 15 years. Building (construction) takes place during the initial 8-12 years. • Activities within the contract: – Design and Building of new roads – Designing and implementing works related to improvements – Periodic maintenance activities – Operation • Financing: Appropriations from the state and revenue from toll collection - compensation based on an annual rate • Options?
E6 Helgeland Purpose of Development Contract • Continuous in time and geography – and predictable building and improvement of a longer section of the road. • The progress of the works is part of the commitment of the contract. The financing will also be fixed in the contract. • One (or alternatively two) comprehensive and long term contracts should in theory give reduced costs. • The connection between building and maintenance/ operation will be an incentive to the contractor to optimize costs and quality.
Size of contract • Operation and maintenance – approximately 300 mill NOK - Appr. 20 mill NOK annually • Building and improvements – approximately 2500-2800 mill NOK – Varying between 200-350 mill NOK annually
We are now focusing on… • Content/ extent of contract(s) • Procurement process with procedures – Open procedure? – Competitive dialogue? – Negotiated procedure? • Contract requirements – National standards (i.e. NS3431) – Special requirements – Input from Norwegian DBFO contracts • Product specification • Design of tender documents, level of detail specification • Transition with present contracts for operation and maintenance
Assumed Timetable • Decision on principles: - Nov/ Dec. 2010 • Description of content of tender documents : Nov.2010-Aug 2011 • Time span: Issue of tender – tender calculation - procurement: Aug 2011 - Jun 2012 • Works start: summer 2012 • Political decisions ?
Dialogue with contractors:
The Content of The Contract • The contract will include designing and building new roads, planning and implementing repair or replacement works associated with decay/ defects of the road structure and associated road elements, periodic maintenance tasks and operational works (like snowplowing, spreading of grit etc. Some planning work to be approved by local authorities (including political bodies) may also be covered by the contract. – Are there any advice as to w hich tasks to be included in the contract? – Advice related to include planning approved by local authorities in the contract?
The Scope of The Contract • NPRA has made a proposal as to which subsections of roads to be included in the contract. The fundamental principle is to include subsections to be built as new roads or to be improved, and include the operation works for the whole contract period. This implies that there will be subsections without any improvement works, nevertheless to be included in the operational part of the contract in order to obtain an overall cost efficiency when circumstances as geography is considered. (Refer to the map on a later slide) – Do you have opinions on this principle?
The Scope of The Contract • There are also subsections which will be tendered out as ordinary construction contracts and therefore not be included in the development contract. One subsection will be between Brattås- Lien, however other subsections are considered to be left out of this contract. – Do you have opinions on leaving som e subsections out of the contract? – Do you have opinions on including options and canceling m echanism s in order to give the necessary flexibility for bringing in or leaving out subsections during the contract period? And if so, in w hat m anner should such m echanism s be designed?
The Scope of The Contract Development plan Approved plan Reguleringsplan – Plan which is approved by the local authorities Skal lage reguleringsplan: Plan must be completed and approved by the local authorities G/s veg: Walk/bike road
Structure of The Contract • The contract could be carried out as one contract, or divided into smaller contracts. Alternatives could be: 1. One contract for the whole project “E6 Helgeland” 2. Two contracts, one north of Korgfjellet, and one south of Korgfjellet 3. Three contracts • North of Korgfjellet • Mosjøen N – Korgfjellet • Trofors – County line Nord-Trøndelag – Any advice to size of contracts and dividing into sm aller contracts? • If works are divided into several contracts, one option is to introduce a phase lag of the tendering, i.g. the second contract is tendered out one year after the first. - Any advice to this?
Plans • The plans for development contract have different status: – For some sections there are plans approved by the local authority – For other sections there are principal plans made by local authorities, and subsequently more effort is necessary to achieve approved plans – Some subsections need only simple plans which do not trigger new plans approved by the local authority – The NPRA considers to take the full responsibility for carrying out the process of getting the approved plans through the local authorities, as an alternative to leaving som e of the responsibility for this to the contractor ( and their partners) . W e w ould w elcom e opinions on this subject.
Payment mechanisms • The contract is assumed to have a total value based on the present value of NOK, i.e. a yearly lump sum adjusted with an inflation factor. In order to adjust to the yearly budget appropriations, it is assumed that there will be a difference between the value of work vs annual appropriations which will be evened out when the contract is completed. – Other proposals to reim bursem ent m echanism s? – W ill a fixed level of yearly paym ent be a problem ?
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