Organisation & Management



National and international, we, CEEM, are well-known through novel organisational models and financial concepts, especially for wastewater facilities. We can offer for management consultancy for private companies and municipalities regarding:

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Financing and investment: tariff structure, tariff calculation, business planning, financial engineering
 
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Optimisation of the value chain, cost reduction programmes, design optimisation (basing on success fee, as far as reasonable and demanded), optimisation of operational expenses - including process simulation, as hydro-dynamic sewerage modelling, process technological modelling of biological reactors, value engineering and benchmarking
 
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Support for the elaboration and implementation of construction and operation, following procurement regulations of good international practice, specific rules like FIDIC, EU, the German VgV or donors (World Bank, KfW)
 
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PSP, privatisation and organisational models
 
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Project management, project controlling, project support for selected tasks
 
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Market research and socio-economic studies




Project Examples



A first full water and wastewater concession in Germany
- Client: Deutsche Bank, Municipal Authority
- 1993-2005
- Privatisation of the water supply and wastewater management in the region of the Hanse-City of Rostock
- Delivered Consultancy: Technical and economic structurisation, preparation and implementation of the transaction process, plus project contract auditing enduring implementation (technical and financial project auditor)


Management Contract auditing for the Water and Wastewater Company Armenia
- Client: AWWC (Armenian Water and Wastewater Company)
- Sponsor: World Bank
- Since 2005
- Privatisation of the Armenian Water and Wastewater Company through a Management Contract, including the operational responsibility and management of investments, financed by the World Bank, under the ownership of AWWC
- Delivered Consultancy: Independent Technical Auditor for the Management Contract


Construction of the Sewage Treatment Plant Zagreb (Croatia)
- Client: Deutsche Bank, later followed by KfW and EBRD
- 1999 - 2000 plus after sales assignments
- Construction of a municipal centralised sewage treatment plant (capacity: 37,800 m³/h)
- Delivered by the Consultant: Technical consultancy regarding construction costs on behalf of the financial sponsor; technical and financial risk analysis; with engineering partner: Prof. Preussner Ingenieurgesellschaft


Management support for the Water Ministry of Algeria
- Client: Algérienne des Eaux, sponsored by the German GTZ)
- 2001 - 2004
- Management support of the Client, especially regarding PSP and tenders
- Delivered Consultancy: PSP-relevant analysis of the water sector, PSP-relevant capacity building and training, support for a DBO-tender of eight desalination package plants in Algiers


Full operation plus asset management contract in Emmerich on the Rhine
- Client: Technische Werke Emmerich (communal water services)
- Since 2003
- assignment: reorganization and partial privatization of Technische Werke Emmerich
- Delivered consultancy: main study for reorganization, preparation and implementation of an EU-wide invitation to tender


General contractor and management for Managua (Nicaragua)
- client: KfW (German federal bank for world-wide development)
- 2002-2009
- 780.000 p.e.
- assignment: construction of a sewage treatment plant in Managua by a private water company
- Delivered consultancy: PSP-relevant concept, contracts and project monitoring
- partners: RRI Beller Consult, local engineering company


First full operation plus asset management contract in Germany
- client: community of Wedemark (near Hanau)
- Since 1984
- assignment: preparation and implementation of the first full operation plus asset management contract (including sewage treatment plant and sewer network) in Germany
- Delivered consultancy: advice for organization, invitation to tender, contract regulator since start of the contract