Acknowledgement

This Resource Guide on Performance-based Contracting for Preservation and Improvement of Road Assets was produced with the financial assistance of a grant from the TRISP. TRISP is a partnership between the United Kingdom Department for International Development and the World Bank (WB) for learning and sharing of knowledge in the fields of transport and rural infrastructure services. The authors of the Resource Guide are Natalya Stankevich, Navaid Qureshi and Cesar Queiroz. The peer reviewers are Christopher Bennett and Gunter Zietlow. Slobodan Mitric helped edit the text and Oxana Minchenko designed the layout and graphics.

Several World Bank staff contributed to the work through references to relevant projects and to the people involved, sharing of documentation and practical information on PBC formats used in various countries, and provision of valuable comments on early drafts of the Transport Note TN- 27 and the Resource Guide. The main contributors were:
Sally Burningham, former Task Team Leader for Cambodia
Jean-Charles Crochet, Task Team Leader for Yemen
Peter Freeman, Lead Evaluation Officer
Ben Gericke, Sr. Transport Specialist, Africa region
Surendra Govinda Joshi, Task Team Leader for Nepal
Martin Humphrey, Task Team Leader for Albania, and Serbia and Montenegro
Henry Kerali, Sr. Transport Specialist, Europe and Central Asia region
Gerard Liautaud, former Task Team Leader for Argentina
Maria Mallo, Consultant, Latin America region
Aurelio Menendez, former Task Team Leader for Peru and Columbia
Aymeric-Albin Meyer, Task Team Leader for Brazil
Yogita Mumssen, Infrastructure Specialist, GPOBA
Bill Paterson, Task Team Leader for the Philippines
Andreas Schliessler, Task Team Leader for Chad, Cape Verde, Tanzania and Madagascar
Maria Marcela Silva, Task Team Leader for Argentina

The Resource Guide and Transport Note TN-27 would have been impossible without the assistance and contribution of the many public officials of road administrations, supervisors, consultants and private contractors from several countries who were generous with their time and patiently responded to our many questions on their experience as well as our multiple requests for additional information and related documentation. Our enormous and sincere appreciation is especially extended to:
Geoffrey J. Caldwell, Queensland Department of Main Roads, Australia
Reg Fredrickson, Director, Maintenance Contracts, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation
Chankosal Tauch, Director, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Cambodia
Phil McCord, Consultant for Cambodia, Louis Berger Group, Inc.
Mart Puust, Estonia National Road Administration
Koit Tsefels, Estonia National Road Administration
Allan Allik, Estonia National Road Administration
Ulo Pormeister, Estonia National Road Administration
Pekka Pakkala, Finnish Road Administration, Finland
Jukka Isotalo, Finnish Road Administration, Finland
Graham Williams, Consultant for several African countries, BCEOM, France
Chris Allen, Transit New Zealand
Douceline Van Arts, Transit New Zealand
Gary Main, Western Bay of Plenty District Department of Main Roads, New Zealand
Theuns Henning, MWH, New Zealand
Gordana Suboticki, Serbia Road Directorate
Zarko Belic, Serbia Road Directorate
Predrag Topalovic, Contractor, Serbia
Milan Gajic, Supervisor, Serbia
Carl-Henrik Ulegard, Consultant for Serbia, Swedish Road Administration
Louw Kannemeyer, South African National Road Agency, Ltd., South Africa
Alex Visser, Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ian Van Wijk, Consultant, AFRICON, South Africa
James Sorenson, Federal Highway Administration, USA
Joe Graff, Texas Department of Transportation, USA
Frank Richards, Alaska Department of Transportation, USA
Kent Lande, Louis Berger Group, Inc., USA
Mark Robinson, Consultant and Supervisor, SAIC, USA
Eloisa T. Raynault, Consultant and Supervisor, SAIC, USA
Ulrik Dantzer Jacobsen, Senior Pavement Engineer, Carl Bro, Denmark

We also benefited from attending the US Department of Transportation Executive Workshop on Performance-based Maintenance Contracting organized by the Task Force on Accelerating Innovation of the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) in partnership with the Subcommittee on Maintenance of the American Association of the State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Our special thanks in this regard go to James Sorenson, FHWA, and Ted Ferragut, Consultant to the TRB Taskforce.

We owe a particular debt to the translation team coordinated by Hector Hernaez for their hard work and patience in translating the Transport Note TN-27 into French and Spanish: Spanish: Jesus Fernandez Zulaica, translator, Maria Carolina Mantaras, proofreader, Guadalupe Morgan, proofreader; French: Maryvonne Briand-Taplin, translator, Patrick Cowan, translator/reviewer, and Cecile Jannotin, proofreader. We are also indebted to our colleagues Gerard Liautaud, Andreas Schliessler, Jean-Charles Crochet, Sarriette Jippe, and Bamory Traore from the African Development Bank for their comments on the French version; Alberto Nogales, and Gerard Liautaud for their comments on the Spanish version; and Andrei Zakharenka, a graduate student of Virginia Tech University, USA, and Dr. Valentin Silyanov, Vice-Rector of the Moscow AutoRoads Institute for their feedback on the Russian version.