Comprehensive road asset management system and developing a road maintenance manual

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 Improvement Project (TRANSIP)

PROJECT ID No: P151819

CREDIT No: 5816-ET

CONSULTING SERVICES: Developing Transport Infrastructure Assets Management System for the City of Addis Ababa and Establish Road Maintenance System for Addis Ababa City Roads Authority

Reference No.: ET-AARTB-366-CS-QCBS

The Government of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank to improve the transport system in the City of Addis Ababa. The Addis Ababa City Administration represented by Addis Ababa City Road and Transport Bureau (AARTB) has allocated part of the proceedings towards the cost of consultancy service for the “Developing Transport Infrastructure Assets Management System for the City of Addis Ababa and Establish Road Maintenance System for Addis Ababa City Roads Authority ". AARTB has delegated Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA) to administer the financial and procurement management of the project, while the Addis Ababa Transport Programmes Management Office (TPMO) to lead the technical management of it.

The main objective of the consulting service is to develop a web-based spatial Transportation Infrastructure Assets Management System (TIAMS) and establish a centrally managed spatial database of the City’s transport infrastructure assets so that stakeholders can register, store, update information on, and follow track of their respective transport infrastructure assets through simplified user-friendly interfaces.

The specific objectives of the assignment are:

• To find out how users/stakeholders want the system to do to them and produce functional requirements specification documents based on user requirements
• To collect real world transport asset data (to take inventory of) in client selected sub-city of the Addis Ababa City Administration
• To develop a successful, workable, and sustainable geo-spatially enabled web-based transport infrastructures asset management system
• To enhance registration, inventory, maintenance and valuation of associated transport assets by each stakeholder,
• To create a successful asset management platform for the Addis Ababa City transport system, and
• To establish a successful road maintenance system so as to improve maintenance performance of AACRA

The expected time of commencement of these assignments will be June, 2017.

The total estimated duration of the assignment is 83 weeks for the development and installation and 3years technical support.

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 in designing web-based geo-spatial transport infrastructure asset management systems.  More specifically, the consulting firm should present proof (demos of the projects and testimonials from clients) of successful completion of at least 3 similar projects in the past 5 years. 

Firms may include any relevant information that may indicate their experience and relevance for the job. This may include: brochures, core business, years of experience in the business, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, technical and managerial organizational structure of the firm, number of key staffs, availability of appropriate skills among staff, general qualification etc.).

The following criteria will be used to assess the Expression of Interest documents;

• Core business and years in business/ the consultant should have been in business for at least ten (10) years.

• Specific Experience on designing web-based geo-spatial transport infrastructure asset management systems or/and experience in similar conditions. The consultant shall also have executed at least three contracts of similar nature and size.

• Technical capability and managerial organization of the firm

• General qualifications and number of key staff as well as availability of appropriate skills among staff necessary for successful implementation of the assignment (no need to provide CVs)

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 propose to establish.

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in 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”) through a Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS).

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours: from 09:00 A.M to 12:30 A.M hours and from 2:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M hours, Mondays to Thursdays and 09:00 A.M to 11:30 A.M and 2:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M hours on Fridays.

Expression of Interest must be delivered in three (3) hard copies or electronically to the address below (in person, or by mail) on or before February 09, 2017.  

Addis Ababa City Road and Transport Bureau (AACRTB)

Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA)

Attn: Ato Alemayehu Alitto, Senior Procurement Specialist

Copied to:  Ato  Behailu Gebreyesus, Project Implementation Unit Head

3rd Floor, Room No.324/325, AACRA Building

Tel:+251-11-3-72-89-40

Fax: +251-11-371-29-82

Pushkin Square

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

E-mail: transip.alemayehu@gmail.com

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