[{"bbox": [145, 151, 1081, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "improve ESCOM performance to provide quality and efficient electricity service. It would also deliver the corresponding outputs outlined in section 3.1 above."}, {"bbox": [145, 224, 449, 252], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### (b) Type of applicants targeted"}, {"bbox": [145, 269, 1081, 327], "category": "Text", "text": "The potential applicants would be international organisations with the potential to raise sufficient matching funds to finance and complete the project."}, {"bbox": [145, 390, 872, 423], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [145, 435, 1081, 517], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply."}, {"bbox": [145, 527, 1081, 636], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of services in the markets of the countries or territories concerned, or in other duly substantiated cases where application of the eligibility rules would make the realisation of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [145, 688, 415, 720], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.6. Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [145, 731, 1080, 1221], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><th>Indicative Budget components</th><th>EU<br>contribution<br>(in EUR)</th><th>Third-party<br>contribution,<br>in currency<br>identified</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Implementation modalities – cf. section 4.4</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>SO1: To improve inclusive access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy in the northern region of Malawi. and<br>SO2: To improve ESCOM performance to provide quality and efficient electricity service.</td><td>29 850 000</td><td>55 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Contribution to the Africa Investment Platform - cf. section 4.4.1<br>Blending grant</td><td>29 850 000</td><td>55 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Evaluation – cf. section 5.2<br>Audit – cf. section 5.3</td><td>150 000</td><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>30 000 000</td><td>55 000 000</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [145, 1235, 667, 1266], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.7 Organisational Set-up and Responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [145, 1279, 1081, 1466], "category": "Text", "text": "Under a blending operation, the project promoter will be ESCOM with its head office based in Blantyre. ESCOM will establish a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) responsible for the management of the implementation of the project. It will oversee the procurement of the PIU consultants, Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor and supervision consultants. Regular project progress meetings with the stakeholders will be organised, initially quarterly and later monthly during construction. The stakeholders will include ESCOM, the financiers (EUD and indicatively the EIB and AfDB), the PIU consultants and supervision consultants."}, {"bbox": [145, 1478, 1081, 1612], "category": "Text", "text": "Assistance on project management and capacity building measures related to management of the new infrastructure will be provided by the PIU consultants. The supervision consultants will oversee and monitor the EPC contractor and the implementation of the Environmental Social Management Plan (ESMP). The EPC contractor will be responsible for engineering, procurement and construction of the power lines and substations."}, {"bbox": [965, 1681, 1080, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 16 of 19"}]