PROJECTS
Umbulan Springs Project
The problem
Only 75 percent of the population of the East Java Province in Indonesia is served by a water supply system. East Java Provincial Government planned to develop the US$200 million Umbulan Springs Bulk Water Supply Project to supply Surabaya and the surrounding cities. The Project, to be procured as a public private partnership (PPP), involved construction of 95 kms of water transmission pipelines to connect urban centers to the remote springs. The Project envisaged local water companies buying bulk water from the provincial government, with the proceeds used to pay the PPP company. However, to make the project attractive to private investors since these local water purchasers were financially weak, it was necessary to guarantee payment obligations to the PPP company. The Indonesian Infrastructure Guarantee Fund (IIGF) is the Central Government owned guarantee provider which needed to be satisfied that payment risks would be managed.
How we helped
Castalia helped the IIGF appraise the request for the guarantee from the Project and helped structure an appropriate guarantee. We found that the Project was viable with Viability Gap Funding to come from the Central Government. However, we recommended that the IIGF provide the guarantee only if the Provincial Government mitigated risks associated with its ability to manage the Project and ensure payments to the PPP company. We audited the institutional and organizational capacity of the provincial government’s water supply business unit that would manage the Project and developed specific measures that would need to be implemented for the IIGF to issue the guarantee. This included a business plan with the structure for the business unit, an operational budgeting plan, and a business process to effectively manage the Project.
Impact
The provincial government implemented our business plan and the IIGF signed a guarantee agreement with the PPP company in July 2016. The Umbulan Springs bulk water supply project reached financial close in December 2016, the construction works commenced in July 2017, and are expected to be completed in mid-2019. The Project will provide 4,000 liters per second of potable water to 260,000 piped water connections across two cities and three districts in the East Java Province.
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WASHINGTON, DC
+1 (202) 466-6790
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 1200
United States of America
SYDNEY
+61 (2) 9231 6862
Suite 19.01, Level 19, 227 Elizabeth Street
Australia
AUCKLAND
+64 (4) 913 2800
74D France Street, Newton South
New Zealand
WELLINGTON
+64 (4) 913 2800
Level 2, 88 The Terrace
New Zealand
PARIS
+33 (1) 73 44 26 97
6 Rue Duret
France
BOGOTÁ
+57 (1) 508 5794
Calle 81 #11-08, Piso 5, Oficina 5-127
Colombia
Thinking for a better world.