Consultancy service for the development of range land management and Investment Plans (IPs)

Source: World Bank — Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION)

Ethiopia

Lowland Livelihood Resilience Project

Credit No.    6412- ET  

 Grant No.:_ .D460-ET

 Assignment Title: Preparation of Range Land Management and Investment Plans

Reference No.  ET-MOP- 117628- CS- QCBS

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lowland Livelihood Resilience Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services (Preparation of Range Land Management and Investment Plans) Consultancy service is to help the MoP in preparing six comprehensive and high-quality Range land Management and Investment Plans (RMIPs) for selected rangelands in the six regions  (Afar,,  Somali, Oromiya ,  SNNP ,Benshangul Gumuz  and  Gambela Regional States  ). In addition, the consultancy service will help the MoP in acquiring all the necessary knowledge and skills that will enable the ministry to prepare similar RMIPs . The service will also include providing mentoring and technical backstop during the preparation of the RMIPs by the MoP t.  It will be deployed for a period of four months from beginning of December 2019 through end of March 2020.

The Ministry of Peace now invites eligible consulting firms to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested consulting firms should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are:  Core Business and Year in business, Qualification in the field of assignment , Technical and managerial  capacity of the firm , General qualification and number of key staff in the firm. Interested firms  should  also provide detail  information including brochures  that indicates their  qualification , experiences in similar assignments,  and their staffing to perform the assignment.     

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 (Procurement Regulations) dated July 2016 and revised in November 2017 and August 2018 (“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 competent consulting firm will be selected in accordance with the QCBS set out in the Consultant Guidelines.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by fax,) by  November 26/2019 at 5:00 PM.

Lowland Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP)

 Federal Project Coordination Unit   (FPCU)

Mexico Area , in front of Shoa Bakery

 P.O.Box    5608 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tel:   +251 11 5  50 45 49

Fax:   + 251 11 5 50 45 96