Terms of Reference: Assessment to Optimise the Operations and Maintenance model of Quito’s Metro

3.Description of the activities

The GG ICR Facility is seeking experts to undertake technical assistance for the development of a new operations and maintenance model for Quito Metro.   The assignment will include a cost-benefit and operational assessment of the current operating model to identify which activities should remain outsourced (in a larger tender, or with smaller/local suppliers) and whether EPMMQ has the capacity to progressively assume selected functions directly. The assessment will also identify the data management, reporting, and supervision requirements needed to strengthen EPMMQ’s oversight of operations and maintenance contractors.

This assistance will be designed to be gender-inclusive and throughout the exercise the consultant should analyse the participation of both women and men in the economy as well as businesses and organizations owned/run by both women and men equally (and eventually, based o...