Gauteng SDI Rail Link - Gautrain

44• The length of a concession in terms of the type of risk transferred and thetypical pay-back periods.Some of the pointers at this stage which will be considered are the following:• Transfer only those risks that the concessionaire can control• Transfer only those risks which the concessionaire can fund• Match concession length to pay-back periods• So far international experience has shown that it may be possible to coveroperating costs and possibly some asset renewal• It may therefore be necessary to free access to assets, but there will be anobligation to return assets in good condition at end• The possibility that government would have to fund the infrastructure orpart of it, will have to be investigated.5.5 IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTThe proposed targeted date for commissioning of the rail service by 2005, andthe proposed deadline (to be operational by the 2006 Soccer World Cup)result in an extremely tight implementation programme. This implies thatthere cannot be any time wastage. Government and other roleplayers will bemade fully aware of the critical constraints so that there can be no wrongexpectations.It is important that from the commencement of the Planning andImplementation Project the time consuming tasks are known, so that theplanning can address these from the onset.In addition, it is important to get an early estimate of the time to completethese tasks, in order to commence with the scheduling thereof. It is, therefor,the intention to get input from international experience on these tasks, once allagree with the list of identified tasks. A best case scenario and a worst casescenario will be developed.Gauteng SDI Rail Link – Inception Report, 15 June 2000