CONSULTANCY SERVICE FOR WATER SUPPLY STUDY AND DESIGN, AWARENESS CREATION AND CATCHMENTS REHABILITATION FOR GEFFERSA, LEGEDADI AND DIRE CATCHMENT AREAS

Source: World Bank — Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project

COUNTRY: ETHIOPIA

NAME OF PROJECT: Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF GOODS/WORKS: Water Supply study and design Awareness creation and Catchment Rehabilitation for Geffersa, Legedadi and Dire Catchement Areas 

Loan No./Grant No.H287-ET

Project ID No. P101473

Contract/Bid No. QCBS-005/2008

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project, and intends to apply part of it for consultant service  for the efficient and cost effective methods and methodologies of catchment rehabilitation measures that would reduce soil erosion and reservoir siltation in the Legedadi, Dire and Geffersa Reservoirs and thereby improving raw water quality and keeping the water holding capacityof the dams in a better position. The consultancy service consists ofstudy and design, and construction supervision works.  The study and design phase is presumed to be completed in eight months time. The service include

1. Review of the master plan of the catchments and analyzing the social and environmental impacts of the rehabilitation work to show the overall feasibility of the project through socio-economic and environmentalanalysis.
2. Conduct the awareness creation and design training mechanisms for thepopulation in the catchments, stakeholders & collaborators.
3. Identify all stakeholders that can be directly influenced or benefited due to the implementation of the project and indicate how each of the affected stakeholders can be compensated for losses, if any.
4.  Study and Design various technologies and Water Supply Sources for the inhabitants and to their livestock population for the catchments rehabilitation which  also includes the study and design of the necessary civil works in the catchment.

The Addis Ababa water and sewerage authority (AAWSA) Water and Sanitation Development and Rehabilitation Project Office now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the service. Interested consultant must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, descriptions of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skill among staff etc.). Consultants may associate to enhance their qualification

A consultant will be selected under Quality- and Cost-Based Selection(QCBS) and procedures set out in the World Bank's Guidelines - Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (website: www.worldbank.org/procure.)

Interested consultant may obtain further information at the address below during the office 8:30AM to  5:00PM hour. Expression of interest must be delivered to the address below by February 22, 2010