Assessment of WASH Facilities Service Delivery at Decentralized Levels

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia Promoting Basic Services Program Phase III Project

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES FIRMS SELECTION)

COUNTRY: FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA

NAME OF PROJECT: PROTECTION OF BASIC SERVICE PHASE III

Credit No: P128891 Grant No: 5162

Assignment Title: Assessment of WASH Facilities Service Delivery at Decentralized Levels

 Reference No. RFP/PBSIII /WASH /2013/02

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Banktoward the cost of the Protection of Basic Service Phase III and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services ("the Services") include:

❖  Assessing Service Quality and Service Delivery Models with Management Structures in the WASH Sector

❖  Identifying Innovation in Service Delivery  and

❖  Assessing the extentof linkage between Education, Health, and WaSH Services

The Ministry of Water, Irrigationand Energy 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 shortlising criteria are:

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•  Core business and numbers of years in business.
• Technical and managerial Organization of Firm.
• Availability of skilled personnel (Water resource Engineer ,Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist ,Socio-economic specialist, Organizational Development Specialist, Physical Planning Specialist and  Statistician)
• Firm's experience in similar assignment
• Firm's experience in working in similar conditions/environment

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 ("Consultant Guidelines"), setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflict of interest.  In addition, please refer to the following specific information on conflict of interest related to this assignment:

Bank policy requires that consultants provide professional, objective, and impartial advice and at all times hold the client's interests paramount, without any consideration for future work, and that in providing advice they avoid conflicts withother assignments and their own corporate interests. Consultants shall not be hired for any assignment that would be in conflict with theirprior or current obligations to other clients, or that may place themin a position of being unable to carry out the assignment in the bestinterest of the Borrower. Without limitation on the generality of theforegoing, consultants shall not be hired under the circumstances setforth below:

1.            Conflict between consulting activities and procurement of goods, works or non-consulting services (i.e., services other than consulting services covered by these Guidelines[1]): A firm that has been engaged by the Borrower to provide goods, works, or non-consultingservices for a project, or any affiliate that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that firm,shall be disqualified from providing consulting services resulting from or directly related to those goods, works or non-consulting services. Conversely, a firm hired to provide consulting services for the preparation (before Loan effectiveness) or implementation of a project, or any affiliate that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that firm, shall be disqualified from subsequently providing goods, works or services (other than consulting services covered by these Guidelines) resulting from or directly related to the consulting services for such preparation or implementation. This provision does not apply to the various firms (consultants, contractors, or suppliers) which together are performing the contractor's obligations under a turnkey or design and build contract.

2.            Conflict among consulting assignments: Neither consultants (including their personnel and sub-consultants), nor any affiliate that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that firm, shall be hired for any assignment that, by its nature, may be in conflict with another assignment of the consultants. As an example, consultants assisting a client in the privatization of public assets shall neither purchase, nor advise purchasers of, such assets. Similarly, consultants hired to prepare Terms of Reference (TOR) for an assignment shall not behired for the assignment in question.

3.            Relationship with Borrower's staff: Consultants (including their experts and other personnel, and sub-consultants) that have a close business or family relationship with a professional staff of the Borrower(or of the project implementing agency, or of a recipient of a part of the loan) who are directly or indirectly involved in any part of: (i) the preparation of the TOR for the assignment, (ii) the selection process for the contract, or (iii) the supervision of such contract may not be awarded a contract, unless the conflict stemming from this relationship has been resolved in a manner acceptable to the Bank throughout the selection process and the execution of the contract.

4.            Consultant shall submit only one proposal, either individually or as a joint venture partnerin another proposal. If a consultant, including a joint venture partner, submits or participates in more than one proposal, all such proposals shall be disqualified. This does not, however, preclude a consulting firm to participate as a sub-consultant, or an individual to participate as a team member, in more than one proposal when circumstances justify and if permitted by the RFP.

Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub consultancy to enhance their qualifications.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the QCBS (Quality and Cost Based Selection) method set out in the Consultant Guidelines.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 8:30 A.M to 5:30 P.M.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below in person before or on March 31 /2014

                    Attention: Mr. Kejela Fufa   

                   Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy

                   Water Supply and Sanitation Directorate

                   Procurement &Contract Management Section

                                     (Coordinator)                                                                    

                   Street Name: Haile Gebresilasie Avenue

                   Floor Number 01, Room Number 114.

                   City: Addis Ababa.

                   Country: Ethiopia

                   Telephone: +251116637018

                   Facsimile number: +251116616238