Strategic Infrastructure Investment Planning for Andean Productive Corridors: From Baseline to Bankable Projects

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) invites specialized consulting firms to submit proposals for an 18-month engagement to develop a strategic infrastructure investment plan for Andean productive corridors across Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

The objective is to translate Phase 1 baseline data into an operational portfolio of prioritized, economically justified, and institutionally feasible interventions across road, waterway/port, energy, and digital infrastructure to mobilize public and private financing.

1. Core Objectives & Scope of Services

Investments & Deficit Quantification: Prioritize high-impact corridors using a multi-criteria decision framework, evaluating segment-level gaps across transport, energy grids, and digital networks using geospatial and remote sensing methodologies.

Trade & Value Chain Integration: Map export flows (HS 6-digit level), analyze global market competitiveness, and assess local mining/agricultural value chains, including urban centers supporting mining operations.

Disruption Risk Indexing: Develop a Corridor Disruption Index (CDI) incorporating civil unrest, logistics bottlenecks, natural hazards, and climate risks to evaluate network reliability.

Economic Modeling: Utilize Input-Output (I-O) models to quantify direct, indirect, and induced impacts on GDP, employment, trade balances, and fiscal returns.

2. Key Technical Workstreams (18-Month Execution)

Activity 1 — Inception & Workplan: Detailed 18-month execution roadmap (Gantt chart), methodology validation, risk matrix, and quality control protocols.

Activity 2 — Geospatial Deficit Assessment: GIS-based mapping of travel times, bottlenecks, power grid coverage (VIIRS nightlight imagery), and fiber optic gaps to produce the Infrastructure Deficit Assessment (IDA).

Activity 3 — Value Chain & Trade Analysis: Geo-attributed export flow analysis, local value chain mapping, and identification of urban ecosystems supporting mining personnel.

Activity 4 — Disruption Assessment (CDI): Georeferenced catalog of social, natural hazard, and logistical disturbances to produce the Corridor Disruption Index and spatial risk layers.

Activity 5 — Infrastructure Investment Planning Framework (IPF): Structuring interventions into four portfolios (Roads, Multimodal, Enabling Infrastructure, and Resilience) with parametric cost estimations and cost-benefit matrices.

Activity 6 — Economic Impact Modeling: National/regional I-O economic impact profiles quantifying job creation, value-added generation, and fiscal return ratios.

Activity 7 — Governance & Implementation Roadmap: Institutional responsibility mapping, regulatory bottleneck analysis, capacity building, and public engagement strategies.

Activity 8 — Decision-Support Platform: Development of an open-source, web-based GIS platform (PostgreSQL/PostGIS, React/Leaflet) in Spanish featuring interactive scenario modeling tools.

Note: Interested companies must review the requirements in the BEO Bidders Portal.

Executing unit: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

IDB project: RG-T4878

Contact: [contact details removed]

Financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).