Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul

Programme Overview

This five-day professional training programme provides highway maintenance managers and engineers with practical tools to implement long-term performance-based maintenance contracts (PBC).⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Participants explore contractual mechanisms, risk allocation strategies, and multi-year planning models designed to shift highway asset management from traditional input-based methods to modern service-level standards. Drawing on established World Bank standard procurement documents for output- and performance-based road contracts, the curriculum equips practitioners to procure, monitor, and enforce contracts that preserve strategic inter-urban transport corridors efficiently and transparently.

Delegates will examine the definition and practical application of level-of-service indicators across key highway infrastructure assets. Key topics include technical condition standards for carriageways, road safety furniture, drainage systems, and earthwork stability. The course delivers comprehensive guidance on establishing robust monthly performance verification regimes, field inspection methodologies, and structured payment reduction systems. Through rigorous technical reviews, participants master the technical oversight procedures necessary to safeguard public expenditure and ensure contractor accountability on long-term national network maintenance schemes.

The programme also addresses the financial and legal frameworks essential for sustainable asset preservation. Attendees review cost-containment measures, lifecycle budgeting, emergency repair provisions, and dispute avoidance mechanisms aligned with international contracting standards such as FIDIC conditions of contract. By analysing real-world operational challenges, highway authority personnel gain the institutional competence required to manage complex multi-year contractual arrangements, mitigate fiscal risks, and sustain critical infrastructure assets under changing climatic and operational traffic conditions across major regional freight networks.

Substantial capital investments across major national arteries, including corridor modernisation works under the East-West Highway and Kakheti Connectivity schemes, require robust asset preservation mechanisms to protect asset lifespans.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Shifting from traditional input measurement to long-term performance-based contracts prevents premature infrastructure degradation, stabilises maintenance fiscal commitments, and meets the governance criteria established by international financing institutions supporting regional transport connectivity.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Istanbul, Turkey, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Transitioning from input-based measurement to Output- and Performance-Based Road Contracts (OPRC)
• Review of international standard bidding documents and World Bank procurement guidelines
• Risk allocation profiles: balancing public client exposure and contractor operational obligations
• Defining contract scope: routine maintenance, periodic renewal, and emergency repair works
• Legal considerations, warranty clauses, and interface management under FIDIC terms
• Establishing level-of-service (LOS) criteria for international and inter-urban corridors
• Pavement performance indicators: roughness (IRI), rutting, skid resistance, and cracking limits
• Service standards for road safety furniture, horizontal markings, and vertical signage
• Infrastructure planning and prioritisation
• Project appraisal and business cases
• Financing options and public-private partnerships
• Procurement and contracting for works

It is designed for highway maintenance managers and network asset leads, road concession monitors and contract compliance auditors, highway authority engineers and project implementation unit specialists and others who want practical, current skills in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships.

The Growing Importance of Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul

Infrastructure and urban services shape growth, health and opportunity. Projects are large, complex and long-lived, and weaknesses in planning, financing or delivery are costly to fix later.

Governments increasingly combine public investment, partnerships with the private sector and new technologies. Teams who can plan, appraise, procure and manage these investments deliver better assets and services.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Plan and prioritise infrastructure investments
• Appraise projects and prepare business cases
• Choose financing and delivery models
• Supervise works for time, cost and quality
• Manage assets over their life

Strong infrastructure, urban development and partnerships systems help organisations:

• Select the right investments
• Deliver projects on time and on budget
• Attract financing and partners
• Keep assets working for longer

This Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Highway maintenance managers and network asset leads
• Road concession monitors and contract compliance auditors
• Highway authority engineers and project implementation unit specialists
• National roads department regional maintenance directors
• Transport procurement officers managing donor-funded infrastructure
• Supervision consultant team leaders and resident engineers
• Government transport ministry technical advisors and planners
• Bridge and pavement preservation inspection engineers
• Road safety infrastructure and corridor operations specialists
• Infrastructure and urban planners
• Engineers and technical managers
• Project and programme managers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training, participants will be able to:

• Assess performance-based contract frameworks using standard international specifications
• Formulate measurable level-of-service criteria for pavement, structures, and roadside assets
• Establish rigorous monthly performance verification systems and site inspection protocols
• Calculate payment deductions and financial penalties in accordance with contractual formulas
• Execute effective contractor oversight mechanisms without relieving contractors of design obligations
• Implement life-cycle cost-containment measures within multi-year road maintenance budgets
• Design risk-sharing schedules that address unexpected traffic growth, inflation, and severe weather
• Explain how infrastructure is planned and prioritised
• Appraise projects and prepare a business case
• Compare financing and delivery models, including partnerships

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training Methodology

The training is delivered through interactive lectures, applied technical case exercises, and structured document-drafting clinics.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Participants analyse clauses from standard donor contract templates, calculate sample non-compliance payment deductions from field inspection data, and critique realistic verification reports. Group exercises encourage peer review among highway engineers, while facilitated plenary debates focus on solving institutional challenges encountered during contract rollout on active inter-urban corridors.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group. Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training, participants will be able to:

• Practical capability to draft and evaluate tender documents for long-term road maintenance contracts
• Competence in setting realistic, measurable level-of-service indicators for multi-asset corridors
• Ability to implement objective, transparent monthly verification regimes and compliance scoring
• Skill in applying accurate penalty and payment deduction formulas to contractor payment certificates
• Enhanced governance mechanisms to control maintenance expenditures and prevent contract cost creep
• Preparedness to manage contract close-out, end-of-term evaluations, and smooth asset handover
• Plan and prioritise infrastructure investments
• Appraise projects and prepare business cases

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Investment planning
• Project appraisal
• Partnership management
• Works supervision
• Asset management

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Business cases
• Risk allocation
• Contract management
• Maintenance planning
• Service monitoring

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply infrastructure, urban development and partnerships within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on infrastructure, urban development and partnerships. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to infrastructure, urban development and partnerships that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Istanbul, Turkey brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how infrastructure, urban development and partnerships is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Turkey

Programmes, Workshops, Exposures, Training Courses in Istanbul, Turkey by Risalat Consultants International

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Readiness Assessment
• Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul Training Manual
• Project Appraisal Template
• PPP Risk Allocation Matrix
• Works Supervision Checklist
• Asset Management Plan Template
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Business Case Review Checklist
• Maintenance Planning Template
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions plan and prioritise infrastructure investments?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Principles of Performance-Based Road Contracts and Legal Frameworks), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions appraise projects and prepare business cases?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Level-of-Service Standards and Technical Asset Indicators), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions choose financing and delivery models?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Monthly Verification Regimes and Payment Reduction Calculations), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions supervise works for time, cost and quality?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Financial Governance, Cost Containment, and Lifecycle Budgeting), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions manage assets over their life?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Contract Administration, Institutional Supervision, and Transition Management), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Long-Term Road Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting in Istanbul programme take place?

It runs from 12 Apr 2027 to 16 Apr 2027, in Istanbul, Turkey. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for highway maintenance managers and network asset leads, road concession monitors and contract compliance auditors, highway authority engineers and project implementation unit specialists, national roads department regional maintenance directors, and others who want practical skills in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in infrastructure, urban development and partnerships?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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