One WASH—Consolidated Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Account Project (One WASH—CWA)

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GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE 123

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

One WaSH Program - Consolidated WaSH Account Phase II

Water Sector

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Credit No. 6445 ET

Project ID No. P167794

The Federal Democratic Republic of  Ethiopia has received financing in the amount of US$ 574.3 million equivalent from the World Bank and other  Development Partners (DPs) toward the cost of the Ethiopian Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Program (One WASH Program - Consolidated WaSH Account Phase II), and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services to be procured under this project. This project will be jointly financed by the Government of Ethiopia, African Development Bank, Department for International Development-UK (DFID), Government of Finland, UNICEF, and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

The project will include the following five components:

 Component 1 – Rural and Pastoral Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (US$ 133.03 million) – This component would support increasing access to water supply and sanitation services and promoting hygiene in rural areas.

Component 2 – Urban Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene (US$ 96.52 million) – This would improve access to water supply and sanitation services in urban areas (small and medium towns) and to strengthen operational efficiency of urban water boards and utilities to effectively manage WSS service delivery.

Component 3 – Institutional Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (US$ 74.45 million) this component would support: (i) increasing and improving access to water supply and sanitation services in health facilities and schools; (ii) hygiene promotion and behavior change activities. The project would finance: construction and rehabilitation of integrated water supply and sanitation facilities in schools and health facilities. 

Component 4 – Sustainable and Resilient Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (US$ 190.35 million) – This component aims to support the study, design and implementation of WSS services in areas that are prone to recurrent droughts and floods. This component is sub-divided into three pillars to effectively address (i) proactive planning and management; (ii) study and design and construction of resilient and sustainable infrastructure that copes with extreme climatic variability; and (iii) dimension framework for support and resources mobilization in the event of emergencies.

Component 5 – Institutional Strengthening and Project Management (US$ 41.81 million) –This component would support implementation of this project through: (i) capacity building, financing of additional implementation support and technical experts; (ii) project management and coordination between implementing agencies; (iii) procurement and contract management to improve implementation of proposed infrastructure; (iv) financial management; (v) operationalization of sector-wide Management Information System; (iv) application of environmental and social safeguards instruments and compliance; (v) knowledge management and experience sharing. This component will also finance procurement of equipment and goods required by federal, regional and Woreda implementing agencies to effectively manage and implement proposed activities.

Description of some of goods and Works to be procured through open international competitive procurement are:

Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specificed in the World Bank’s procurement regulations for IPF borrowers July 2016 Revised November 2017 and August 2018” (Procurement Regulations) .The World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection.

Specific procurement notices for contracts subject to open International competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business and Ethiopian Herald Newspaper.

Interested eligible firms and individuals who would wish to be considered for the provision of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services for the above-mentioned project, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the address below:

Water Development Commission of the Ministry of Water Irrigation and Eneregy

Tamiru Gedefa Wami

Program Management Unit Coordinator

Street Address: Haile Gebresilassie Road, Postal Code: 5744

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

tgwami@gmail.com

Tele: +251-116637018 

Fax: +251 0116616238

Web site address mowie.gov.et