SUMMARY

The Qiaoxi District Central Heating project was procured as the second stage of a two-stage scheme to improve the heating supply in the Qiaoxi District of the Zhangjiakou municipality, Hebei Province of China. The first stage covered the majority of the construction required for the improvements, which included installing new boilers as well as decommissioning old boilers. This case study is focused on the second stage of this scheme, which comprises the PPP contract (described as a Transfer- Operate-Transfer contract) for the operation, maintenance and financing of the boilers, the associated hot water pipe network and the heat exchange stations, as well as the installation of two additional heating boilers during the contract period. The Finance Bureau of Qiaoxi District is the Procuring Authority, and Zhangjiakou Yuantong Huashen Heat Company Limited is the Project Company. The operations phase of the project started successfully at the end of October 2015.