Public transportation is an essential service and is a very necessary input in the development process of a nation. For an emerging economy capital city like Nairobi in Kenya, public transport in the role it plays because majority of the population do not own private automobiles. Unfortunately, Public transportation is facing various problems resulting in the inefficiency of the system and deterioration of the services. The main causes of urban public transport problems in Nairobi include: inadequacy and lack of proper maintenance of the transport infrastructural facilities; concentration of a lot of economic activities, employment, and other activities within the central area and Industrial area of the city resulting in volumes of people and goods movements that become difficult to accommodate efficiently; inadequate supply of public transport services to meet the high ad increasing demand; low efficiency in traffic management and operations of the modes of public transport.

Through an international search for a reputable project and logistics company the Nairobi City Council has approached and appointed QUTE PL (Pty) Ltd for a consulting project, to help them to deal with the transport problem in the city: QUTE Projects & Logistics (Pty) Ltd (QUTE PL (Pty) Ltd), has its headquarters in Pretoria, branches in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town in South Africa; Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania; Nairobi in Kenya; Kampala in Uganda; Kigali in Rwanda; and Gaborone in Botswana.

The Nairobi City Council under its new Mayor Mr J K Njuguna intends to introduce a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to alleviate congestion and provide an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation modelled on the BRT under TransMilenio S.A. in Bogota, Colombia. The Government is very much concerned with several challenges which faced the BRT project and impressed by its final achievements and would like the assessment/critique of TransMilenio, Bogotá’s public transportation system as a first step towards a client briefing for the proposed Nairobi project.

As a Senior Partner of QUTE PL (Pty) Ltd you have been assigned this proposed project & you have been requested to respond to the client – the Nairobi City Council.

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Working with your group, Nairobi City Council would like your assessment/critique to focus on TransMilenio, Bogotá’s public transportation system Management issues – especially supply-chain aspects (See attached Case Study details). It is expected that you will review TransMilenio, Bogotá’s public transportation system value creation process and clearly comment on what happened, the challenges/problems faced & how these were addressed & how you think they were supposed to be handled.

Based on TransMilenio, Bogotá’s public transportation system, in Colombia (attached), QUTE PL (Pty) Ltd has requested you to prepare a professional paper, which will be presented at the briefing workshop in Nairobi to be organized by the Nairobi City Council. As clearly indicated above the Nairobi City Council Mayor representatives would like you to focus on TransMilenio, Bogotá’s public transportation system value creation process (more on supply chain issues) and clearly comment on what happened, challenges/problems faced and how these were addressed & based on your PPP Projects knowledge how they were supposed to be handled through best practices. It is thus expected that your presentation will be able to address these broad issues:

Comment on the project structure & its respective dynamics.

What are the lessons learned based on PPP project fundamentals for Nairobi?

City Council.

Two specific outputs are expected by the client:

a. Professional paper submission to the client – 70% of the points
b. Individual presentations to the client (each presentation forming part.