MODULE PURPOSE

This module describes the enablers that need to be implemented to ensure a well-functioning cities infrastructure delivery and management system that meets stakeholder expectations, deliver value-for-money, and promotes and facilitates continuous learning and improvement. These enablers are:

1. Asset management leadership and teams

2. Asset management plans

3. Asset management information systems

4. Service provision models

5. Audit, review and improvement

MODULE PURPOSE

This module describes the infrastructure delivery management framework applicable to municipalities and municipal entities.Specifically, this module:

1.   Describes the control framework for infrastructure delivery management, based on the National Treasury Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management (SIPDM); and

2.   Provides guidance with respect to the infrastructure delivery management process.

MODULE PURPOSE

This module describes the infrastructure procurement system applicable to municipalities, inclusive of infrastructure contracts and contract management. Specifically, this module:

1. Describes the control framework for infrastructure procurement, based on the National Treasury Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management (SIPDM); and

2. Provides guidance with respect to the infrastructure procurement process.

MODULE PURPOSE

The asset management system articulated in Module 2, and the asset management processes described in Modules 3 – 8, identify lifecycle delivery actions to be actioned to achieve stated asset management objectives. This CIDMS Toolkit advocates robust lifecycle planning as a prerequisite for meeting asset management objectives, to ensure value-for-money infrastructure delivery. Accordingly, cities should prepare asset management plans and a strategic asset management plan which define required capital and operating lifecycle delivery actions over the short, medium and long term in the form of projects and programmes. This module:

1. Describes the infrastructure delivery management system through which capital and operating lifecycle delivery actions are implemented, based on the National Treasury Standard for Infrastructure Procurement and Delivery Management (SIPDM);

2. Presents the control frameworks for infrastructure delivery management and infrastructure procurement;

3. Defines projects and programmes, and provides guidance related to the packaging of these; and

4. Addresses governance arrangements.

MODULE PURPOSE

This module provides tools and techniques for project design, infrastructure investment appraisal, project financial planning and the prioritisation of capital projects for inclusion in the capital budget.

MODULE PURPOSE

This module describes how the life-cycle plans prepared in Module 6 inform the preparation of asset management plans (AMPs) per sector and how these inform the preparation of the Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) for the city. 

MODULE PURPOSE

This module describes how asset data models and profiles prepared in line with Module 3 are used and further developed to determine the short, medium and long term life-cycle needs and inform progressively optimised responses per sector that respond to city developmental themes. These in turn inform the preparation of sector asset management plans that are the focus of Module 7.

MODULE PURPOSE

This module focuses on estimating future demand and on managing demand in such a way that economic optimisation is achieved, that the city’s spatial agenda is supported and services are delivered when required, that scarce natural resources are well-managed, and that the city’s assets and services are configured to the adaptations required by climate change. This module strongly advocates the adoption of green infrastructure technologies where appropriate to support the transition to a low carbon environment, and to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources.

MODULE PURPOSE

This module provides the means for identifying, locating and quantifying municipal customers, and for profiling such customers in terms of key built environment planning attributes such as land use type, density and income levels. This module also provides levels and standards of service options for infrastructure and community services as a basis for engaging with customers on appropriate service packages, for profiling the current state of service provision, for quantifying service access backlogs, and to estimate current and future demand.

Additionally, this module provides guidance on the type and location of social amenities to be provided in urban spaces to support spatial objectives such as densification and the strengthening of identified spatial structuring elements (e.g. nodes and corridors).

MODULE PURPOSE

An asset management system comprises the people, policies, processes, plans and information to deliver value from assets. This module:

Key elements of the module are:

1. Describes the scope, content and requirements of a city asset management system;

2. Provides the means for identifying internal and external stakeholders who establish requirements for the asset management system;

3. Defines an asset management policy, states its purpose as providing the principles according to which asset management objectives are established, and that the asset management system and assets must respond to, states requirements for an asset management policy, provides guidance for developing such a policy, and attends to matters relating to policy approval; and

4. Describes requirements for and the elements of asset management strategy. The asset management strategy contains asset management objectives for both the asset management system and assets, as well as strategies for delivering on these objectives. The asset management strategy is presented in the city’s strategic asset management plan.

MODULE PURPOSE

This module presents an analysis of urban challenges and expectations for cities and their pivotal role in the economic and social development of South Africa, through considered infrastructure delivery and management in the context of the spatial reform agenda. It also describes the unique value that this toolkit offers in supporting cities to meet these challenges, using the Cities Infrastructure Delivery and Management System (CIDMS) that is founded on best practice and tailored for unique application in the South African urban environment.

Key elements of the module are:

1. Infrastructure investments, the delivery of infrastructure and the management of infrastructure assets and services need to support national policy and strategy relating to the development of the country. This module summarises key urban built environment strategies and highlights strategic objectives for urban infrastructure.

2. The strategic objectives for urban infrastructure serve as outcome areas that define the parameters for decision-making in city asset management systems, dealt with in Module 2 of this Toolkit.

MODULE PURPOSE

This module describes the asset data models that have been adopted as the foundation to implement the asset management system contemplated in Module 2. It identifies the scope of data required and provides the rationale for the structuring and nature of the models that have been adopted, and are to be applied consistently to all immoveable assets across the various sectors in the city. The data model underpins strategic, tactical and operational management.

Key elements of the module are:

1. A standardised asset and location hierarchy inter-alia defining how the portfolios are broken down to a consistent level of component detail at which the modelling takes place, and is also used to roll-up data for planning and reporting purposes;

2. A standardised scope and design of data attributes on each of the components that inform asset management processes;

3. Interpretation of data to inform cost, value, performance and risk profiling.