COMPANIA NATIONALA
CAI FERATE "CFR"SA
Anunturi de participare la
licitatie deschisa
- August 2006 -
REQUEST
FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTANT SERVICES)
Transport
Restructuring Project
Transport
Sector
CONSULTING
SERVICES
Loan
No. 4757 RO
Subject: Re-invitation for Expressions of
Interest.
The National Railway Company of Romania (CFR) has
received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Transport
Restructuring Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consultant
services for Business Processes Redesign. The services include three components: the first
component concerns the establishment and management of
The Romanian Railway
developed sophisticated IT systems as part of the reforms the company has
undertaken in the last decade, aiming to become more customer-oriented and
competitive in the market place, by reducing its costs and continuing the
change process on the same time. One of the key steps in this continuing
transformation is to speed up the way the Railway manages Train Operations, the way it interfaces with its Freight Customers, and the way it
manages Infrastructure Maintenance.
The Railway is therefore seeking the assistance of an experienced
Consultancy who is familiar with the Railway industry, and who has had
experience in implementing modern organizational structures and the appropriate
procedures and systems that resulted in improved customer services and reduced
costs. The business process modeling addresses the following components:
Freight Customer Service Center (P1), Train Operations Management Center (P2), and
Infrastructure Maintenance Management Center (P3).
These three components relate to the already existing Integrated Railway
Information System (IRIS) sub-systems of the same name. These can be
referred to as sub-projects, each one dealing with a discrete portion of the
Railway activities being managed by a specific organizational structure. The
process redesign must recognize this uniqueness; while at the same time it
recognizes and addresses to the broad interdependence of each of the
sub-projects.
The present consultancy
consists of four phases:
1)
- review and
recommendations for changes of existing business processes,
-
preparation of Terms of
Reference for IT related consultancies for implementing the agreed processes solutions.
The implementation will be carried out by different consultants, but under
present consultant coordination.
-
assistance in procurement of
the related necessary software and hardware. The procurement method of both the
consultancies and the goods will be discussed and agreed with the financing
institution
2) supervises
and coordinates consultants and suppliers based on:
- the process agreed redesign,
-
Terms of Reference for consultant services
for system redesign,
-
procurement of general-purpose hardware
and software for IRIS subsystems extension and procurement of proprietary
application software and based on incidental services. Both, the consultant
services and the goods must be compatible with the IRIS system.
3) supervises
and coordinates the implementation of the systems. This oversight should secure
that the consultant services and the goods are in compliance with the extended
functionality of the related IRIS sub-systems and with the approved business
model. The physical implementation of the system should use proprietary and
general-purpose software and hardware as appropriate.
4) the
validation of each new business process system.
Training of the
beneficiary staff and management should be a part of the consultancy and
conducted in parallel with it.
The
National Railway Company of
Clause
1.11 of RFP – Instructions to Consultants: “Shortlisted Consultants may only submit one proposal. If
a Consultant submits or participates in more than one proposal, such proposals
shall be disqualified. However, this does not limit the participation of the
same Sub-Consultant, including individual experts, to more than one proposal.”
A
consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the
World Bank’s Guidelines:
Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers
(current edition).
Interested
consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office
hours (09:00 to 16:00 hours from Monday to Friday).
Expressions
of interest must be delivered to the address below by September 12, 2006.
National Railway Company CFR
SA - Foreign Financing Directorate
Attn: Mr. Tiberiu Angelescu, Director
010873
Tel: +40-21-3192440
Fax:
+40-21-3192441
E-mail: tiberiu.angelescu@cfr.ro with a copy
to Ms. Irina Axenie at irina.axenie@cfr.ro.