Project · Iraq

Performance-Based Maintenance for Iraq’s Expressway No. 1

Routine maintenance awareness and performance-based maintenance tenders

As sole consultant, with World Bank financing, SWEROAD helped Iraq’s Roads and Bridges Directorate raise awareness of routine maintenance and prepare performance-based maintenance tender documents for Expressway No. 1.

Challenge

Sections R7, R8 (R8A and R8B) and R9 of Expressway No. 1 had been rehabilitated in recent years under the Transport Corridor Project. Routine maintenance protects that investment by keeping roads safe, reducing vehicle operating costs, extending roadway life and deferring rehabilitation or reconstruction.

Solution

The assignment had two aims: to raise awareness of the importance of routine road maintenance, and to prepare tender documents for Performance-Based Maintenance Contracts (PBMC) for sections R7 to R9.

Planned outputs included a review of current maintenance arrangements, a strategy for introducing best maintenance management practice, operational guidelines and manuals, a procurement strategy with model bidding documents for routine, winter and emergency maintenance, maintenance performance indicators, a study tour, training and draft tender documents.