Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery through Better Engineering Services Project The Accelerating Infrastructure Delivery through Better Engineering Services Project (ESP) will help meet the infrastructure development objectives of the Strategic Plan, 2015-2019, of Indonesia's Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MPWH). ESP will strengthen the MPWH's capacity to efficiently design and implement its increased public investment program by (i) improving the quality and timely start-up of infrastructure projects, and (ii) strengthening the MPWH's public investment management systems. The impact will be the attainment of the infrastructure objectives of the MPWH's Strategic Plan, 2015-2019. The outcome will be strengthened capacity of MPWH's DGH, DGHS, and DGWR to efficiently design and implement MPWH's public investment program. ESP's outputs are:

Output 1: Improved quality and timely start-up of infrastructure projects. This output will support the preparation, design, and delivery of up to 40 projects in irrigation, flood management, bulk water, dam, water supply and sanitation, and national road sectors. These infrastructure projects are to be mainly financed from the government budget. 

Output 2: Strengthened capacity in public investment management. This output will strengthen the MPWH's capacity in master planning, survey methodologies and design standards, value engineering, technical and financial assessments during construction, use of multi-year contracting for civil works, asset management, safeguards and procurement systems.

MPWH, through its secretariat general, will be the executing agency, with DGH, DGWR, and DGHS as implementing agencies.  MPWH will establish a steering committee to monitor the ESP's overall implementation and ensure ESP-supported projects are prioritized for implementation. A project coordination office will be established at the Bureau of Budget Planning and International Cooperation of the MPWH's secretariat general to support the steering committee.  DGH, DGHS, and DGWR will each establish (i) a project management office headed by a project director and supported by administrative staff; and (ii) project implementation units within their respective sector directorates to lead the selection of consultants for project preparation, with participation of concerned local offices of DGH, DGHS, and DGWR, as required. The project implementation units and local offices of DGH, DGHS, and DGWR will establish project teams to review and endorse the outputs of consulting firms for direct payment by ADB. All consultants will be recruited and managed in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2013, as amended from time to time).

Under the ESP, a large number of consulting firm contracts will need to be expeditiously procured. Given this, and based on ADB's unique experience in supporting the preparation of large pipelines of PPP projects in India and the Philippines,  the ESP will apply the following two-phase method for selecting consulting firms for project preparation purposes: (i) the consulting firms will be selected to be part of a panel, and the empanelled firms will be retained for up to 3 years on a noncommittal basis under indefinite delivery contracts (empanelment phase); and (ii) for preparation of individual projects, a selection will be made from the panel based on the evaluation of full technical proposals submitted by the consultants (call-down phase).  MPWH will apply this two-phase approach for the first time under the ESP. The National Public Procurement Agency has encouraged piloting testing this approach at MPWH for eventual replication in other sectors.