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Contract No. PCE-I-00-99-00008-00
Task Order No. 801
Page 4 of 11
Due to these GOE led developments, there is an explicit need for technical
assistance to guide the new initiatives. Because the existing program had
expected a slow pace for privatization, assistance for the fields of
commercialization, restructuring, regulation and privatization are urgently
required. To begin to assist the GOE with a rapid reform of the electricity
sector, USAID utilized Energy IQC in June 1998 to establish a small team of key
policy advisors along with short-term assistance in highly specialized fields.
ESPG, the existing Energy IQC contractor, will continue efforts for the
achievement of USAID policy concerning institutional development to insure that
EEA can sustain benefits and progress made under prior USAID assistance
programs, the emphasis of their IQC will be to strengthen institutional and
policy reform efforts in support of MEE, EEA and EC's (Electric Companies) on
proposed electric sector commercialization/privatization and restructuring. The
priorities on the assistance will be on regulatory, organizational, management,
operational, financial and policy/legal issues that are necessary for
commercialization and private sector participation in power generation,
transmission and distribution.
Additional initiatives remain to be implemented.
1.2 TITLE
Power Sector Support II
1.3 OBJECTIVE
The objective of this task order is to support the privatization of the
Electricity Companies (ECs) by strengthening their financial planning, cash
management and debt management systems and by providing financial advice to EC
management.
1.4 STATEMENT OF WORK
The work under this task order will be split into four sub-tasks: Financial
Planning, Cash Management, Debt Management and ad hoc financial advisory
assistance.
Financial Planning:
The contractor shall assist the seven ECs to strengthen their financial
planning capabilities by implementing an Arabic Financial Planning Model and by
assisting them to develop the required organization, skill, policies and
procedures.
Deliverables:
a. Translate the Financial Planning Model developed under the ESPG task order
into Arabic (MS Excel-Arabic version).
b. Modify the existing Arabic Financial Planning Model to incorporate the chart
Of accounts and financial statement format used by the companies.
c. Prepare an user manual for the Financial Planning model in Arabic.
d. Prepare a standardized report template in Arabic to be used by the ECs to
prepare financial planning reports.