The government of Pakistan is weighing the possibility of transforming the bus fleets of some its most populated urban centers into “clean energy” vehicles, and the U.S. government has pledged to foot the bill for that initial assessment.
The Pakistan Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Transport Fuel Conversion initiative (Solicitation # 2010-31068A-1) this week began reaching out to U.S. consulting firms capable of assessing “the market opportunity, develop a business plan, recommend necessary technical requirements, and estimate costs to integrate LPG into the transportation sector in and surrounding seven major Pakistani cities.” According to a contracting document that U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor located through routine database research, the U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) is offering a $482,000 grant to a selected firm that can carry out that review of the bus Pakistani systems.
USTDA is providing funding at the behest of the National Energy Conservation Centre (ENERCON), an entity of the Pakistan Ministry of Environment. The unit’s primary role is to facilitate “energy conservation and energy efficiency” across all sectors of the Pakistani economy.
“ENERCON promotes energy conservation that includes identifying appropriate energy conservation opportunities, undertaking pilot projects, training and education efforts, and developing plans and policies that promote energy efficiency,” the synopsis/solicitation document says. “ENERCON serves as the secretariat for the Pakistan Energy Conservation Council and maintains the Energy Conservation Fund, which was established to provide financial assistance to energy conservation activities.”
Continuing a recent trend, USTDA no longer make a more detailed Request for Proposals (RFP) readily available to the public; instead, the agency requires interested parties to fill out an online request that it must approve before releasing the RFP. It should be noted, however, that prior request that T-RAM has made for such documents have been speedily approved.
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