Financial Risks Project Risks and Mitigation Measures .1

Monthly Progress Report December 2013 Western I ndonesia National Roads I mprovement Project 60 • Price Adjustment • Currency Fluctuation • Current Estimated Situation No risk was detected until preparation of this report since the main program of the loan civil works implementation has not yet been started with contract sign.

6.9.3 Risks Related to Quality

The quality of work is inherently tied to the competence of the Contractors and the diligence of the Supervision Teams. The competence or otherwise of contractors shall be considered at the time of bid evaluation and prior to the award of any contract. The quality of supervision however is influenced by the following factors: • Ensuring that supervision staff levels are fully manned with competent, honest, qualified and experienced personnel. • The provision of properly equipped laboratories with properly trained operators for each package. Package supervision comes under the responsibilities of the immediate supervision teams and the relevant DSC but the Quality Assurance Engineer from CTC. Until now, the performance have not been reported by the Quality Assurance Engineer from CTC, because the works activity has not started. Monthly Progress Report December 2013 Western I ndonesia National Roads I mprovement Project 61 7 ISSUES and RECOMMENDATIONS

7.1 Current Situation

The main issues during December 2013 are to accelerate implementation of civil work awarded contract. Before that advance payment for all AWP-1 packages had been processed in this month, especially for GOI portion before closing date to withdraw in KPPN budget for AWP-1 packages had been allocated in APBN for Financial Year 2013, in meanwhile IBRD portion still process by the World Bank and must be monitored by PMU.

7.2 Action Required

Refer to procurement plan bidding documents for 4 packages which had started PQ process must be completed in next month, and also Bidding Documents for NCB packages 2 packages using Post Qualification must be clearly to use Full e- procurement or Semi e-procurement before finalized the bidding document. It must be taken into account that with post qualification, the bidding process will be shorten to 4 month, therefore, the land acquisition process has to be accelerated for those packages which shall be procured or planned to bid in early 2014.