REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS)

Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Project: Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project – Phase Two (LLRP-II)
Assignment Title : Consultancy Services for Design Review and Construction Supervision of Awadi Geberoch Climate-Resilient Diversion Irrigation and Drainage Scheme in Argoba Woreda
Procurement Reference No.: ET-AFR-RPCU-569666-CS-QCBS

1. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project – Phase II (LLRP-II), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.
2. The consulting services ("the Services") include : ensure that the proposed irrigation and drainage infrastructure is properly designed, constructed, and completed in accordance with the approved engineering designs, technical specifications, contractual requirements, applicable standards, and environmental and social safeguards.
3. The objective of the assignment is to engage a qualified consulting firm to act as the Engineer for the Awadi Geberoch Diversion Irrigation Scheme works contract. The Consultant will review the completed detailed engineering design, verify construction readiness, supervise construction and administer the works contract, and provide completion, commissioning, handover and Defects Liability Period services. The Consultant shall protect the Client's technical, financial, environmental and social interests while administering the works contract impartially and in accordance with its terms.The assignment seeks to ensure the development of a reliable, efficient, and climate-resilient irrigation and drainage system that improves agricultural water management, enhances crop production and productivity, strengthens the resilience of local farming communities to climate variability and extreme weather events, and contributes to sustainable livelihoods and food security in Argoba Woreda.
4. The Afar National Regional State, Office of the President, Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II) Regional Project Coordination Unit 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.
5. The implementation period is 10 (ten) calendar months from the date of commencement.
   The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be obtained at the address given below.
   The shortlisting criteria are:
   A) Core business and years in business:
   The Expression of Interest should focus on the firm's corporate capability and comparable assignments, and should include, as applicable: A brief profile of the firm, including its legal status, year of establishment, ownership, organizational structure, core business areas and relevant technical capacity. Evidence of experience in irrigation and drainage infrastructure design review, construction supervision and/or contract administration, particularly diversion headworks, canals, hydraulic structures and on-farm irrigation development.
   Details of comparable assignments completed and/or ongoing, including the assignment name and country/location, client, contract value (where disclosable), scope and relevance, commencement/completion dates, and the firm's role.
   Experience on projects financed by the World Bank, IFAD or other development partners, where applicable. Evidence of capacity to manage multidisciplinary engineering and ESHS supervision services, including environmental and social safeguards, occupational and community health and safety, land access/resettlement follow-up and stakeholder engagement.
   Information on the firm's availability and capacity to mobilize and maintain a resident supervision team in the project area.
   For a joint venture or association, details of each member, the proposed form of association, the lead member and the respective roles and responsibilities. Relevant experience of each member should be clearly identified.
   B) General experience: The Consulting Firm has extensive general experience in providing multidisciplinary engineering consultancy services, including feasibility studies, detailed engineering design, construction supervision, contract administration, and project management of irrigation, drainage, water resources development, and other related civil infrastructure projects.
   C) Specific experience: The Firm possesses relevant experience in the supervision and management of irrigation infrastructure development projects, including diversion weirs, river intake structures, irrigation canals, hydraulic structures, drainage networks, flood protection works, and associated civil engineering facilities. The Firm has experience in ensuring construction quality assurance and quality control, monitoring contractors' performance, supervising construction methodologies, reviewing and approving technical submissions, verifying work measurements, preparing progress reports, and ensuring compliance with approved engineering designs, technical specifications, contractual requirements, and applicable environmental and social safeguards.
   D) Technical and managerial capability of the firm: organizational capacity and has experience in ensuring construction quality assurance and quality control, monitoring contractors' performance, supervising construction methodologies, reviewing and approving technical submissions, verifying work measurements, preparing progress reports, and ensuring compliance with approved engineering designs, technical specifications, contractual requirements, and applicable environmental and social safeguards.
   Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.
6. The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank's "Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers" September 2023 ("Procurement Regulations"), setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflict of interest.
7. Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications, but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub-consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected.
8. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality- and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in the Procurement Regulations.
   Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours, 7:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. ( east Africa time ), on working days.
9. Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, in hard copy) by 30 November 2026 at 9:00 A.M. East Africa Time (EAT).
10. The address referred above is:
    Afar National Regional State, Office of the President,
    Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II),
    Afar Regional Project Coordination Unit (RPCU)
    Attn: Procurement Officer Tadesse Gebeyehu , Room No. 7
    Tel: +251 33 666 0188, / +251-912- 68- 90- 22/ +251- 933-80-62-44
    E-mail: afarllrp@gmail.com; llrpafar@gmail.com;
    Semera, Afar, Ethiopia

The Afar National Regional State, Office of the President, Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II)