DEFINING FUTURE OPTIONS

Expertise that covers international political and strategical experience,
public and private utilities’ management experience, and engineering and economical
background in the Water Sector

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Commitment

We strongly believe in Public Service and the importance of the Water Sector as the driver of society and economy

Client needs

We are committed to deliver “Client’s needs”, respecting Client’s vision and orientation, and always pointing in the right direction and adding value

Deliver “state of the art” reports

We are committed to deliver “state of the art” documentation, regarding best practice and benchmark around the world. Our report structure means that the knowledge stays within the Client. We share knowledge, we don’t keep it to ourselves

There’s no “one fits all” solution

There’s no “one fits all” solution in the Water Sector. Each country, region, municipality and client have their own reality. Their own singularities. And each one should be approached with practical and feasible solutions, not academic and theoretic solutions with no consistency with reality

whole spectrum of Water Sector basis

Our expertise covers the whole spectrum of Water Sector basis: managerial, regulatory, organizational and operational

People First

Our projects are driven by “People First”, no one left behind

Our Services

Water – Energy Eficiency – Carbon Emissions

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DEFINING FUTURE OPTIONS, is a Portuguese investment, management, and advisory firm for the Environment Sector. Our expertise covers regulation, strategy, PPP framework analysis and development, technical, commercial and economic due-diligence, and organizational design. Our team couples extensive public and private utilities’ management experience with an engineering and economical background in the Water Sector. More info…

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Knowledge of the water sector

DEFINING FUTURE OPTIONS stands out for its level of seniority, its knowledge of the water sector, and its experience of managing public and private water utilities.

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Extensive experience

DEFINING FUTURE OPTIONS team has extensive experience in project development in the water sector, having collaborated with Governments, Regulators, Municipalities, Utilities, and Multilateral donors worldwide.

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Unique advisory positioning

DEFINING FUTURE OPTIONS’ expertise in the water sector comes from acting on the international market, designing strategy and business plans, formulating base cases, advising management, technical and commercial operations’ reforms; supporting the implementation of investment programs, improving network efficiency and quality of service, analysing and setting tariffs, devising regulations and creating solutions for increased efficiency in operations.

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International footprint

DEFINING FUTURE OPTIONS has several projects across Europe, Africa and South America water sector, providing advisory services for institutional reforms of public utilities, regulation, PPP design and framework, procurement and Project Management.

Our Services

We provide consulting and advisory services in the Water and Sanitation Sector, Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions

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What we do

Establishing and Reforming Utilities

Assessing the Baseline
Setting objectives
Establishing quality standards and goals
Developing Implementation Plans
Forecasting Capex and Opex
Structuring organizations
Defining Staffing Plans
Training and capacity building
Defining internal procedures
Transforming inefficient services into highly professional and efficient ones

Helping Governments, Municipalities and Regulators

Performing Legal and Institutional reforms
Improving governance
Defining Key Performance Indicators
Designing rules and regulations
Providing Technical Assistance
Designing Tender Documents and assisting in the biding and negotiation phases
Establishing guidelines and monitoring procedures
Ensuring international best practices

Settings Tariffs and Cost Recovery Policies

Assessing the existing P&L and Tariff models
Providing Willingness-to-pay and Affordability Studies
Tariff benchmarking
Defining Pro-poor policies and social tariffs
Designing Tariff schemes
Setting tariff programs and tariff revision methods
Implementing cost recovery trajectories

Designing PPP framework

Assess economic, political and social situation to establish a PPP
Evaluate Vision alignment between parties
Analysis and challenge objectives and desired performance indicators
Define risk allocation
Design the PPP model
Develop the financial modelling
Critical review of the feasibility studies and investment plan
Advise on Private Party operational gains and efficiencies to ensure utility performance
Design tender and procurement tools
Supervise PPP performance and regulatory compliance

Evaluating Mergers & Acquisitions

Commercial, Technical and Environmental due diligence and transaction closing
Independent perspective on market potential, target valuation, risks and respective mitigation options
Base-case design, including Capex and Opex estimations
Strategic plan definition for the target company
Post merger planning and strategy definition

Portugal

- 70+ Client Municipalities
- Aggregation of Municipal services into
large regional Utilities
- Advisory to the Regulator, ERSAR
- Technical Assistance to Public Companies
- Establishing and reforming Public and
Private Utilities
- Improve utilities operations

Angola

- Technical Assistance for the establishment
of 7 Provincial Water and Sanitation Utilities, DNA
- Support to Water Sector Reform through a
PPP in Cabinda, Angola
- WASH Public Financing Bottleneck Analysis
- Procurement and Financial Management
of the project components related to the EIB
parallel financing within WSIDP-2 (Goods, Works,
Consulting and Non-Consulting Services for the
Lunda Norte, Moxico and Nabime PWSU)

Moçambique

For AURA, IP, Water and Sanitation Mozambican Regulator:
- Tariff Model Study and Mechanism of cross subsidies for poor Sustainability
- Strategic Plan 2020-2024
- Specialized technical assistance
- Design of the regulatory frameworks and sanctioning regime applicable to commercial companies
- Incentives and Sanctions Regime (RIS) for the provision of public water supply and sanitation services

For AIAS, Water and Sanitation Administration:
- Transaction Advisory for PPP Model of 130 small towns, Small Towns Water Infrastructure Fund Feasibility Study
- Tariff model study (structure and mechanism of cross subsidies for poor and sustainability of connections fees subsidy)

For DNAAS:
- Public-private cooperation strategy for water concession, distribution, and collection

Botswana

Gaborone WWTP and reuse PPP
tariff structure, Botswana

Moldova

Program for Regionalization and Professionalization
of Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Moldova

Peru

Advisory in investment planning
and financing capacity to inform
decision-making PPPs, SEDAPAL, Peru

Caribbean

Feasibility analyses for a Mutual for
Caribbean water utility companies,
CWUIC, to insure natural disasters
related risks

Lebanon

Crisis Response Management Plan,
for four Regional Water Establishments,
Lebanon

Albania

Advisory for the design of the
World Bank operation to support
the Albanian Government WSS
modernisation program

Policy guidelines to support the
government to develop new financing
instruments to Regional Water Utilities

Romania

Support the World Bank and the Romanian
Government to outline the National WSS
Strategic Plan and compliance with EU UWWTD

East Europe

Institutional and Governance Advisory
of Portugal WSS experience

Indonésia

Institutional Transformation of Water Supply in Indonesia – Case Study Bali Province