Consultancy Service for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Project

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia: Transport Systems Improvement Project (TRANSIP)

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES– FIRMS SELECTION)

COUNTRY: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

NAME OF PROJECT:  Transport Systems Improvements Project (TRANSIP)

PROJECT ID No: P151819

CREDIT No: 5816-ET

Assignment Title: Consultancy Services for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Project

Reference No: ET-AARTB-163884-CS-QCBS

The Government of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the Transport Systems Improvements Project (TRANSIP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds towards the cost of Consultancy Services for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Project.

The objective of this consultancy service is to prepare Transit-oriented development (TOD) detail urban design for the selected areas of Addis Ababa city as a pilot project through an integrated land use and mass transport development to facilitate access to basic services, infrastructures, Housing, job/Employment density, and improvement of the overall economy of the residents in the project area through plan intervention.

The duration of the services is estimated to be eighteen (18) Months. The expected time of commencement of these assignments will be April 2021. Interested consultants can request and obtain the terms of reference of the consultancy service through an email address specified below.

Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA) now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to express 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: consultants shall have core business in consultancy services of Architecture, or Urban Planning, or Urban Design of Transport Infrastructure projects and have general experience in any type of consultancy services.
• Specific Experience: Consultants shall have an experience on Urban Planning and Detailed Urban Design Projects preferably including Design of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects within the last ten years. Consultant shall provide detail description of the experience such as name of the project, name of the client, project location, scope of the work, start and completion date of the project and referral websites.
• Technical capability and managerial organization of the consultants

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 & 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. The Expression of Interest should clearly specify the type of relationship the consultants may propose to establish.

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

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours: from 09:00 A.M to 12:30 A.M and from 2:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M - Mondays to Thursdays, and 09:00 A.M to 11:30 A.M and 2:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M on Fridays from Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA), Engineering Procurement Directorate, Team 2, Ground floor, Room No. 37.

Expression of Interest must be delivered in one (1) original and three (3) hard copies or electronically to the address below (in person, or by mail) on or before 30th July 2021.

Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA)

Engineering Procurement Directorate  

Attn:  Eng. Mohammedawel Seid, Engineering Procurement Directorate, Director

Copied to:  Eng. Abel Altaseb, Team Leader, Team 2, Engineering Procurement Directorate

Ground Floor, Room No. 39, AACRA Building, Pushkin Square

P.O.Box 9206, Tel: +251-1-372-89-60,

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

E-mail : aacraepd@gmail.com

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