AfDB STUDY ON WATER SECTOR GOVERNANCE - Capacity4Dev

• Contracts with unusual payment patterns• Inadequate / restricted and ill-timed advertising of procurement processes• Incomplete or misleading advertising• Restriction of competition through excessive charges• Failure to notify all bidders of changes to bidding documents• Unclear or ambiguous clarificationsPre-Qualification• Unexpectedly narrow subset of pre-selected companies• Unduly strict pre-qualification criteria• Rotation of pre-qualified bidders; collusion between pre-qualified companies to submit bids inturnBid-Opening• Irregular bid openingBid Evaluation• Deviation from published evaluation criteria or weights• Biased application of evaluation criteria• Special treatment for favoured companies• Inconsistency between the information stated in the bid evaluation report and actual supportingdocuments• Unreasonably long periods of time to evaluate bid submissions• Inconclusive tender followed by improper negotiations with companiesContract Implementation• Front-loading• Repetitive change orders• Deliberate use of unqualified supervisors / monitors• Product substitution• Special payments not contemplated under the contract• Failure to execute performance securities• Substitution of a consultant for less qualified and inexperienced personnel• Wholesale subcontracting3.7. GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT AT PROJECT COMPLETIONThe objective of an assessment at project completion is to inform the Project Completion Report(PCR). As per the AfDB’s PCR requirements, 93 such reports (1) provide a comprehensive account onall aspects of the project at completion; (2), assess the results of the project and the efficiency andeffectiveness of the means employed to achieve them; (3), estimate the project’s expected contributionto development and sustainability; (4), identify operational lessons learned relevant for on-going orfuture operations; and (5), lay the groundwork for in-depth evaluation reports and impact studies. Assuch, the governance related requirements of the report include:• Analysis of project execution, including procurement issues, governance strengthening andmitigation measures applied;• Assessment of results achieved in terms of improved governance, based on the results asoutlined in the logical framework using the agreed upon project monitoring indicators andthe final governance assessment conducted to compare the state of governance at projectcompletion with the baseline;93 See “Synthesis Report on the Review of 2003-2005 Project Completion Reports (PCRs),” AfricanDevelopment Bank, ABD/BD/WP/2007/38.AfDB Study on Water Sector Governance 3-37