PROCURA: Buyer pools and procurement models

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PROCURA Buyer pools and procurement models

• Feb 10, 2006
• Robert van den Hoed
• Ecofys, r.vandenhoed_at_ecofys.nl, 31 2808 479

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Buyer pools 1

• Defining buyer pools (draft)
• A group of users with a common interest/needs to
  collectively purchase AFVs.
• Underlying objectives
• To solve chicken-egg problem
• To more efficiently set up repair and maintenance
• To raise purchase power (to reduce costs)

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Buyer pools 2

• Traditional target groups
• Rental agencies, taxi companies,
• Buses, garbage disposal
• Required traditional techno-econo-organiz
  tools/manuals
• Private buyer pools
• Combining fleet owners in creating larger
  AFV-pools
• Combining both regionally and internationally
• Requirements adapted models assessing common
  goals and conditions
• Citizen buyer pools
• Targeting individual citizens
• Via environmental NGOs, automotive associations,
  other branche organizations?
• Required identify intermediate organizations
  (e.g. NGOs) and opportunity to set up pools
  infrastructure
• ? Focus on new ways to create larger pools
  (innovative)

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Buyer pool
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Procurement models 1

• Tentative definition
• A combination of AFV-Infrastructure solutions,
  financial schemes, incentive structures
• dedicated for the defined buyer pools
• that form attractive ways to catalyze the market
  for AFV.
• Examples
• Financial scheme for taxi drivers in collab with
  banking sector (Egypt example) municipal
  incentive schemes.
• NGO-based buyer pool development (citizens)
• Airport-focus Pooling fleets with central
  infrastructure financing scheme.

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Procurement models 2
2 Intl context variables for regions
1 Procurement models (general)
3 Intl variables x applicab proc models
4 Customized procurement models