Consultancy Service for Enhancing ERA'S Institutional Capacity for Performance Based Road Maintenance Contract (PBRMC) Design and Management

Source: World Bank — Road Sector Support Project

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING

(CONSULTANCY SERVICE – FIRMS SELECTION)

FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA

ETHIOPIAN ROADS AUTHORITY

SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR

Consultancy Service

For

Enhancing ERA’s Institutional Capacity for PBRMC (Performance-Based Road Maintenance Contracts) Design & Management

Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Name of Project: Road Sector Support Project (RSSP)

Loan/Credit No.:  5371-ET

Reference No.: S/66/ICB/RFP/IDA/2013

The Government of the 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 engage Capable firm who will provide technical assistance to support ERA Road Asset Management in the process of transition from the traditional method of road maintenance contract to Performance-Based Road Maintenance Contract and to Enhance ERA’s Institutional Capacity for PBRMC Design & Management.

The consultant also will provide exclusive training on PBRMC for ERA and stakeholders, review the current ERA’s Road Asset Management practice, introduce new effective and efficient technologies and finally, the consultant is required to develop an implementation action plan which will help and lead the department to better accomplishment through increasing the efficiency.

The entire assignment is expected to be completed within a period of 18 (Eighty) months after contract signing.

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

• Eligibility,

• Company Establishment [Technical and Managerial Organization of the firm regarding its Areas of Expertise, Core Business and Year in the Business]
• Number and diversity of permanent personnel related to the service,
• Consultancy Services Turnover in the Last Five Years,
• General Experience (within the last ten years):  

• General Experience in Design/Design review or Supervision of Road Projects, or Road Asset Management Contracts or technical assistance of Road Projects.

• Specific Experience (within the last ten years):

• Experience in Detail Engineering Design and Tender Document Preparation for Performance-Based Road Maintenance Projects
• Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation of Performance-Based Contracts
• Experience of Technical Assistance on Gap Analysis and Institutional Capacity Building or Strengthen for Road Sector Authority’s/Agencies
• Experience in Preparation of Technical Manuals/ Specifications/ Standards/ Guidelines related to PBRMC or Road/Highway design or construction or Asset management for road/highway agencies or for Transport/Road Research Agencies.

• 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 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 April 09, 2021.

Attn: Mr. Zekarias G/Giorgis

Engineering Procurement Directorate, Director

New Building Block - B, 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 Authority