Consultancy service for the Assessment and Enhancement of Capacity of Domestic Road Contractors and Consultants

Source: World Bank — Road Sector Support Project

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING

(CONSULTANCY SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR

CONSULTANCY SERVICES

For

 The Assessment and Enhancement of Capacity of Domestic Road Contractors and Consultants

Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Name of Project: Road Sector Support Project (RSSP)

Loan/Credit No.:  5371-ET

Reference No.: S/88/ICB/RFP/IDA/2012 EFY

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 Consultancy Services for the Assessment and Enhancement of Capacity of Domestic Road Contractors and Consultants.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include rendering the service with due diligence and efficiency in fully support to asses and enhance the local road construction industry gaps and its limitations in the performance and have to recommend all the necessary measures to transform the industry to excellence.

The entire assignment is expected to be completed within a period of 12 (Twelve) 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 Services. 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 [Team leader, Contract engineer, Business Analyst specialist, financial management expert, strategic planner etc…]
• Consultancy Services Turnover in the Last Five years
• General Experience:  Experiences in planning, designing, constructing, administrating/managing of road construction and supervision  projects in the last ten years;
• Specific Experience: Experience in evaluation, review or assistance to companies of public and private business and institutional change management of road networks, providing training program with regard to contractual, technical and managerial issues of road construction and supervision projects, providing quality and businesses management systems, advising and interpreting other related projects on road construction sector in the last ten years.
• 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 December 31, 2020.

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 Authority