Proposals are hereby invited for the appointment of a service provider/consultant to develop the freight road to rail migration plan for the Department of Transport for a period of twelve (12) months. The scope of work to be undertaken includes the following: - Develop an extensive Freight Road to Rail Migration Plan in consultation with all relevant implementing agencies such as Department of Public Enterprise (DPE), Transnet (Transnet Freight Rail), private sector and Treasury. - Create extensive guidelines for the cargo types, tonnages that a rail friendly that should ideally migrate to rail. - Create a database/spread sheet of all industry players (commodities) willing to migrate to rail as of 2022-2023 and further all those willing to consider the movement. - Analyse all current commodities that have migrated to rail in the last 5 years, based on the RFS and the Transnet migration plan. - Look into the current challenges caused by the overburdened road infrastructure. - Develop a Best Practice analysis of developing countries road-rail freight split, and the equitable share on the land surface transportation of freight. - Give an in-depth analysis on the probabilities of the split based on the current economic down turn as well as the envisaged growth in some industries, experts and imports as well as cross border movements. - Provide an in-depth analysis of the current challenges and inhibitions of the rail sector in taking on commodities currently on road. This should look into the infrastructure, investments, slots, capacity and the will from the rail sector to take on more commodities. Consideration must be given to the prioritisation of such movements as per Transnet’s current appetite and capacity. - A thoroughly defined Plan on the migration, the timeframes, industries, commodities, tonnages, origin and destination pairs, corridors, routes and cross border movements. - Guidelines on the prioritization strategy with practical timelines. - Stakeholder consultative plan (internal and external). - Provide reports on all steps on the project (internal and external). - Develop an extensive and detailed implementation plan. - Identification of challenges, shortfalls that might be faced in the implementation of the plan. (Tender №75419901)