Supervision Consultancy service for operation and maintenance of existing waste water treatment plants (chefe, koye fache, kaliti and decenteralized package waste water treatment plants) found in different location of addis city.

Source: World Bank — Second Ethiopia Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION

Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Name of Project: Second Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project (P156433)

Credit No. :- IDA-60070

Assignment Title: -   Consultancy Service for Contract Administration and Supervision of Wastewater Treatment Plants Operation and Maintenance service in different areas of Addis Ababa City.

 Reference No:- ET-AAWSA-42833-CS-QCBS

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of the Second Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting service.

The consultancy service which the Consulting firm shall render involves the contract administration and supervision of the operation and maintenance services of 8 (eight) wastewater treatment plants by an operation and maintenance service Contractors. The consultant is expected to ensure that the contracts for the operation and maintenance services are implemented with a high standard of operation and maintenance efficiency and quality, in accordance with the operation and maintenance manual and the whole of the contract document entered into between the Contractor and the Employer, to acceptable environmental and social standards and in accordance with the Employer Requirements and the Bank’s Safeguard Policies.

The wastewater treatment plants that are subject of this consultancy service are

• Kality Wastewater Treatment Plant: This is a centralized conventional Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) based plant. It has a design capacity of 100,000 m3/d. The plant consists of inlet chamber, screen chambers with mechanical coarse and fine screens, aerated grit chambers, UASB units, trickling Filters, secondary clarifiers, chlorination and  dechlorination units, bypass system, control building, sludge drying beds, etc

• 7 MBR Wastewater Treatment Plants: These are 7 (seven) package membrane bioreactor (MBR) based plants at different locations of the city.  The 7 (seven) plants have capacities ranging 1000 m3/d to 4300 m3/d with a total design flow of 18,060 m3/d. The plants consist of inlet chamber, package pretreatment unit,  primary clarifiers, aeration tanks, MBR tanks, filtrate tanks, mechanical dewatering system

The services for the contract administration and supervision of the operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment plant are expected to be completed within 54 (fifty four) months from the date of commencement.

The Addis Ababa Water Supply and Sanitation Authority (AAWSA), Water and Sanitation Development and Rehabilitation Project Office now invite eligible consulting firms 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 short listing criteria are:-Core business and years in business, qualification, and experience in the field of assignment, organizational and managerial capabilities of the firm, and general qualification and number of key staff but not individual experts’ bio data. 

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 by World Bank Borrowers dated January 2011 and revised July 2014 consultant’s guidelines setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest for consulting services.

Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications, but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub-consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected.

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 Monday-Friday 09:00 A.M-12:30AM in the Morning and 01:30 PM-05:00PM in the afternoon.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below in person or by mail, or by fax, or by email by October 02/2018 on or before 4:00PM (local time).

AAWSA, Water and Sanitation Development and Rehabilitation Project Office,

Attn:                Ephrem Wubeshet, Procurement Support Process, Head

P.O. Box:         1436/1110, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Street Address: - CMC road, on the way CMC about 400m from Megenagna Square, in front of Bole Sub-City Wereda 06 Administration

 P.O. Box:       1436/1110, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tel:                  +251-116676920

City: - Addis Ababa

Country: - Ethiopia

E-mail address: - eph77@yahoo.com