Component 2: Sao-Tome - Guadalupe road rehabilitation - Civil works and project supervision (Cost estimate: US$ 22.0 million, IDA financing)

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   Rehabilitation of existing National Road N1 from Sao Tome to Neves (13.3 km). The paved road is 5 meters wide with a dangerous horizontal and vertical alignment. It is mostly in bad conditions and in need for rehabilitation. The average traffic is around 3700 vehicles/day not including a high presence of motorcycles in urban/town areas. The road is also used by trucks to transport fuel and beer from Neves to the rest of the country. The cost estimate is around US$ 21.0 million including contingencies;
   
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   Construction supervision and quality assurance services. (Estimated Cost: US$1.0 million).
   

This project component will finance the operation and incremental costs of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) including:

1. 
   Implementation support to PIU for contract management for the main civil works and consulting services under the project;
   
2. 
   hiring of project management support consultants to fill project management and technical capacity gaps.