Consultancy Services for Detail Design and Preparation of Tender Document for Sawla – Maji Road Corridor

Source: World Bank — Road Sector Support Project

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING

FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA

SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE

ETHIOPIAN ROADS ADMINISTRATION

(CONSULTANCY SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

For

Detail Design and Preparation of Tender Document for Sawla – Maji Road Corridor

Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Name of Project: Road Sector Support Project

Loan/Credit No.: 5371-ET

Project ID No.: P131118

Reference No.: S/45/ICB/RFP/IDA/2014EFY

The Government of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Road Sector Support Project (RSSP) initiative, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for Consulting Services of the Detail Design and Preparation of Tender Document for Sawla – Maji Road Corridor (Hereinafter called “the Services”).

The Services include rendering the tasks with due diligence and efficiency in fully support and to provide Landslide Prevention Measures & Detailed Design and Preparation of Tender Document for Rehabilitation Work of the Road Corridor.

The consultant is expected:

• To provide Landslide prevention measures
• Feasibility, Environmental Impact Assessment and Resettlement Action Plan Assessment and Risk assessment;
• Detail Engineering Design;
• Preparation of Engineering Cost Estimate.

The Consultant shall perform all duties associated with such tasks to ensure that only the best practice is followed and that the final product is in all aspects equal to that specified, at the most financial costs and is executed in full compliance with the terms of reference.

The entire assignment is expected to be completed within a period of 12 (Twelve) months after Contract signing.

The Ethiopian Roads Administration 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 following criteria will be used to assess the Expression of Interest documents;

• Eligibility,

• Company establishment, number and diversity of permanent personnel related to the Service [Project Team Leader, Geotechnical Engineer, Geologist/Geophysicist, Pavement/Materials Engineer, Highway Engineer, Environmentalist, Structural Engineer, Hydrologist/Hydraulics Engineer, Surveyor, Contract Engineer,            Road Safety and Safety Audit Engineer/ Specialist, Sociologist, Transport Economist, CAD Engineer and Quantity Surveyor].

• Consultancy Services Turnover in the Last Five years
• General Experience (within the last ten years ):
• Experience in Detail/Concept Design and/or Construction Supervision, Technical Assistance… of Road Projects
• Specific Experience (within the last ten years ):

• Experience in Concept Design/Detailed Engineering Design/ Design Review and Tender Document Preparation of Road Projects;
• Experience in Specification and Tender Document Preparation of OPRC (Out Put and Performance Based Road Construction) Contracts;
• Experience in Design and/or Supervision of Land Slide Prevention Measure Projects;
• Experience in Feasibility Study of Road Projects;
• Experience in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Road Projects.

• Familiarity, Knowledge and Experience in the region (in Ethiopia and other Sub Sahara Countries) is an advantage, but not mandatory.

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. Consultants are advised to specifically indicate the type of association in their application.

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 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. from Monday to Thursday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in three (3) hard copies or electronically to the address below (in person, or by mail) by 4:30 PM on or before June 10, 2022.

Attn: Mr. Zekarias G/Giorgis

Engineering Procurement Directorate, Director

New Building Block - A, 1st Floor

P. O.  Box 1770

Ras Abebe Aregay Street

Tel.: +251 11 515 0419

Fax: +251 11 554 4434

E-mail: eraengproceoi@gmail.com

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ethiopian Roads Administration