How to find competent and worthy partner? This is the question that dogs all. Projects being long duration projects, identifying true potential of intending partner becomes one of the most crucial phase in project planning and execution. What level of expertise and experience should be considered appropriate before awarding the contract? More importantly, how to define the project objectives are some of the areas requiring specialized skill-sets. Maintaining secrecy and transparency are must in any contract involving government projects meant for public. Bid Process Management enhances flexible negotiation of proposed price, schedule and content of customer deliverables. Typically, bid and tender management processes are complex, complicated and time-consuming. The larger the project more acute and complex its problems become. The entire process involves huge investment of time and resources and can easily devour into deadlines and budgets if not managed well from the start.
We have the expertise in managing entire bid process starting from conceptualizing the project, laying technical and financial parameters, BOQ, inviting expressions of interest (EOI), preparing request for qualifications (RFQ), request for proposals (RFP), drafting notice inviting tenders, fixing evaluation criteria and evaluation process, wrapping up with selecting successful bidder and awarding the contract.
MSN Infra follows rigorous processes and guidelines to facilitate the process. Given the critical performance and regulatory issues involved, each document is duly vetted by experts.
Transaction gets closed once finances for the project are tied up. Through sophisticated financial modeling and sensitivity analysis, we provide detailed advice on the most cost-effective financial structuring and project financing combinations. We help indentify various options of funding for the proposed infrastructure development projects. Our range of services covers debt funding, PE (Private Equity) Funding, Project Financing through banks and other financial institutions. There are also funding schemes floated by the government under which the funding can be done. The Government also provides Viability Gap Funding (VGF) for projects which are not financially lucrative proposals but are economically and socially viable. Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and State Governments may claim the funds from various schemes floated time to time by Central Government such as Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Reform Mission (JNNURM) and Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT)/National Lake Conservation Project (NLCP) and National River Conservation Directorate (NRCD) for the funding of water bodies across the country.
MSN Infra identifies schemes appropriate for the funding of the given project, and assists its client in obtaining required clearances.
Articulation of operational requirements with legal precision is an art mastered by MSN Infra over the years in drafting Concession Agreements for PPP projects. An agreement that has to bind the Government and the Concessionaire for the concession period and weather ups and downs of the project complexities during implementation and execution is drafted with deep understanding of the project needs and constraints surrounding it.
We also provide assistance in formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) so as to facilitate the project with proper financial structure.
Cases requiring renegotiation of concessions and user charges are quite common in developing economies where it is difficult to visualize emerging scenarios over the project period. Stakeholder’s concerns are addressed, revenue sharing mechanism is fine tuned and necessary negotiations are facilitated so as to develop a healthy relationship between our clients.