Highway Inventory Letter

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Highway Inventory letter

About the Highway inventory letter

The following content is a sample draft format of a highway inventory letter. This draft format is useful for writing a letter to the concessionaire. That is  request to the concessionaire to submit the highway inventory status. This letter draft pertains to the request of submission of project highway Inventory.

The project highway inventory means that all items of the project facilities. This is including both figures of the following.

a) The highway facilities and features are already provided as per concession agreement.

b) The balance to provide on the project highway as per the concession agreement’s scope.

Purpose of highway Inventory letter

The purpose of this letter is as follows

1. Requesting the project inventory data.

2. Collection of project inventory data from the concessionaire.

3. The collected inventory data is utilize for monitoring the project highway as per operation and maintenance requirements of Schedule-L of the concessionaire agreement.

Highway Inventory Letter

To
The Concessionaire,
XXXXX

Subject: Independent engineer request for submission of the Highway Inventory. All items comprised in project facilities upon the Project Highway from km. 0+000 to km. 60+000BHS—Reg.

References: Operation and maintenance requirements as per the concessionaire agreement (Schedule “L”).

Dear Sir,

This pertains to the subject matter discussed above and the reference mentioned earlier. It is to inform you that, the concessionaire is responsible or obligated

  • To operate and maintain the project facilities.
  • To fulfill the requirements outlined in the concession agreement.
  • And, Schedule “L,” as stipulated in Section 2.1.10 of Schedule “L.”

Further, As per Section 2.1.11 of Schedule-L, the scope of operation and maintenance includes, inter alia,

Improvement: Improvements to the existing assets as per the requirements of concession agreement. And safety audits if any, in consultation with the independent engineer.

Road maintenance: This includes the following

A. Routine maintenance,

B. major maintenance,

C. periodic preventive maintenance,

D. Disaster maintenance, and

E. Inspections of the project highway.

Traffic maintenance and incident management

A. This includes enforcing regulations in conjunction with relevant authorities.

B. Hazard response.

C. Information gathering and dissemination, road patrols, and surveillance.

Safety: Safety encompasses various aspects of the following

A.      Accident prevention

B.      Aftercare,

C.      User behavior,

D.      Education,

E.       Enforcement,

F.       Data collection and analysis.

Facility management: Facility management includes periodic inspections, routine maintenance, rehabilitation, and expansion planning.

Road property management: These includes Highway Access control, Highway encroachment and Ribbon development with right of way on the project highway

The list of Highway facilities inventory as per Schedule C of the concession agreement are as follows

List of Highway Project Facilities

  1. Toll plaza
  2. Roadside furniture and roadside facilities
  3. Highway lighting
  4. Facilities for pedestrians and cattle underpasses
  5. Tree plantations and landscaping
  6. Rest areas
  7. Truck lay-bys
  8. Bus-bay pickup bus stops and bus shelters
  9. cattle crossings
  10. Development of a site for wayside amenities
  11. Traffic aid posts
  12. Medial aid posts
  13. Vehicle rescue posts
  14. Telecom system and
  15. The highway traffic management system

As a result, the concessionaire has to maintain an inventory of all items in project highway. Those Contained in project facilities (the inventory) throughout the concession period.

Conclusion

In this regard, you are requesting to update the inventory. It’s reflecting the completed works and other modifications to the project facilities. It is a request to submit the up-to-date inventory to this office as of today at your earliest convenience.

Thanking you while ensuring you our best services.

[Yours,]

[Insert the name of the authorized person].

Note to Visitor

Kindly be aware that the above mentioned contractual conditions serve as examples. These contractual conditions are deriving from the CA of the BOT (annuity) projects. Those built under the PPP mode for the period 2016–2020.

It is to ensure that, necessary modification of the existing contractual conditions. As outlined in the CA that applies to the specific project to write a similar letter.

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In addition, you can find various sample draft formats for highway operation and maintenance correspondence.

FAQs related to Highway Inventory Letter

1. What is Schedule L of the Concession Agreement?

Operation and maintenance requirements of the project highway during the operation phase of highways. The project built in public-private partnership.

2. What is Schedule C of the Concession Agreement?

Schedule C of the concession agreement is about the project facilities. To built on the project highway as per scope of Concession agreement.

3. What is highway inventory?

The highway inventory is a list of elements, features, and facilities. These are to build on the highway as per the scope, revised scope, or change of scope of the concession agreement. The highway inventory data is useful to independent engineer for following.
• Effective highway supervision,
• And these statistical data ease the monitoring processes.

 

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