Consultancy service for Development of an integrated City Wide Sanitation plan and Feasibility Study and Detail Design of Waste Water Management System for Gambella, Semera and Asosa Towns by Ministry of Water Irrigation and Electricity

Source: World Bank — Second Ethiopia Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)

FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA

SECOND URBAN WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION PROJECT (2nd UWSSP)

Credit No. IDA-60070

Assignment Title: Consultancy Service for Development of an Integrated City Wide Sanitation Plan, Feasibility Study and Detail Design of Waste Water Management System for Gambella, Semera-Logia and Asosa Towns

Reference No. ET-MOWIE-65731-CS-QCBS

The Government of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Second Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project (2nd UWSSP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include: Development of an Integrated City Wide Sanitation Plan and Feasibility Study and Detail Design of Waste Water Management System in three cities such as Gambella, Semera-Logia and Asosa Towns.

OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT 

The overall objective of the service is to conduct assessment, feasibility study and detail design of wastewater management schemes, enabling realization of City Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS).

Specific objectives of the assignment are:

Semera-Logia town,

To undertake in-depth assessment of the current sanitation situation and existing plan with respect to liquid waste, solid waste, and urban drainage including the institutional arrangement, infrastructures, existing structure policies, strategies, strategic development plans at national, region, and towns’ levels and developing an appropriate institutional framework and action plan covering wastewater, and other facilities used for sanitation sewerage services provision and management.

Gambela and Assosa towns,

• To conduct rapid assessment of current sanitation situation through review of situation assessment study report and other pertinent documents.
• To conduct feasibility and detail design of appropriate city wide inclusive sanitation/wastewater management infrastructure, and recommend commensurate management system (financial and business arrangement, regulatory framework, and customer-oriented programs)
• To develop indicative plan for sanitation (solid, wastewater and urban drainage) for respective town

SCOPE OF THE WORK

Task I–Situation Assessment and Mapping

For Semera-Logia Town: Assessment of existing sanitation situation, infrastructure works and existing plan with respect to liquid waste, solid waste and urban drainage,

For Gambela and Assosa Towns: Conduct rapid assessment of existing sanitation situation, infrastructure works and existing plan with respect to liquid waste.

Task II- Feasibility Study and Detail Design of Wastewater Management for Three Towns (Semera-Logia, Gambela and Assosa)

Total duration of the service is 10 months (300 calendar Days).

The Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The short listing criteria are: Core business and years in business, qualification, and experience in the field of assignment, organizational, managerial and technical capabilities of the firm, and general qualification and number of key staff but not individual experts’ bio data.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers January 2011 Revised July 2014 (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. 

Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub consultancy to enhance their qualifications.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost Based Selection method set out in the Consultant Guidelines.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 9:00am to 12:00 noon and 2:00pm to 5:00pm from Monday to Friday.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) on or before 18th September 2018, 4:00 pm.

Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity

Attn: Ms. Shewanesh Demeke

Haile Gebresilasie Avenu 1st floor, Room number 114

P.O. Box: 5744

Tel: +251116611564

Fax: +251116616238

E-mail: shewidem@gmail.com

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia