Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Ministry of Urban Development and Housing

Name of Project: Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program (UIIDP)

General Procurement Notice (GPN)

Regular Credit No 6196-ET./SUF Credit  No 6197-ET/Grant No. D277-ET

Program ID No. P163452

The government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing in the amount of US$ 600 Million (Six Hundred Million US$) from International Development Association (IDA) toward the financing of the Urban Institutional & Infrastructure Development Program (UIIDP) 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 program. This program will be jointly financed by the Government of Ethiopia and French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement-AFD)

The program will include the following main components

 Window 1 for PforR: (a) Performance-based grants to 117 ULGs for infrastructure investments as listed under the Program investment menu. (b) Support for regional governments to strengthen their capacity to support and guide the ULGs in core areas such as financial audit, environmental audit, procurement audit, revenue enhancement, and others

Window 2 for IPF: Enable the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (MUDHo) to support and guide the regions and ULGs and also to administer and coordinate the Operation.

The following is a brief description of some of the goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services to be procured through open international competitive procurement.

·         Goods: Providing Survey Equipment including Total Stations Differential GPS hand held GPS, Plotters and Walkie- Talkie to four Emerging Regions, namely Afar, Ethiopia Somalia, Gambella and Benishangul Gumuz;

·         Consulting Services:

ü  Annual Performance Assessment (1st   and 2nd for UIIDP for 61 cities in Oromia and SNNPRS) is conducted to measure the performance of beneficiary cities against the Minimum Condition and Performance Indicators;

ü  Annual Performance Assessment (1st and 2nd for UIIDP for 56 cities in Amhara, Tigray, Ethiopian Somali, Afar, Benishangul Gumuz, Gambella, Harari, Dire Dawa) is conducted to measure the performance of beneficiary cities against Minimum Condition and Performance Indicators;

ü  Preparation studies (Prefeasibility or Feasibility Studies) for resilient-oriented investment projects that are likely to contribute to the sustainable Urban Development, and Targeting Cities with specific needs for further investments;

ü  TA for baseline in 61 cities (especially new cities and cities that have not used the consultancy before) on asset management, asset inventories baseline and for revenue enhancement strategies, plans and implementation;

ü  TA for baseline in 56 cities (especially new cities and cities that have not used the consultancy before) on asset management, asset inventories baseline and for revenue enhancement strategies, plans and implementation;

ü  Implementation support for ULGDP-II and UIIDP Management information system that supports the program operation at the Federal, Regional and ULG Level, including trainings and scaling up;

ü  Preparation of Densification standard for Urban Ethiopia; and

ü  Preparation of Regional Urban Development Spatial Plan for 9 Regional States/ Oromia, Amhara, SNNP, Tigray, Gambella, Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopian Somali & Harar of Ethiopia.

Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (July 2016 and revised November 2017) (Procurement Regulations), and is open to all eligible firms and individuals  as defined in the Procurement Regulations The financing agreements for the program have already been signed and  the World Bank will shortly  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 online, on the World Bank’s external website and the Ethiopian Herald local 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:

Ministry of Urban Development and Housing;

Mr. Amlaku Adamu Ayele, Urban Revenue Enhancement, Fund Mobilization, and Finance Bureau, Bureau Head;

Telephone: 251-115- 54-12-77,

Physical address: 4th Floor, Room No. 401,

P. O. Box 3040, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Email: urefmf@gmail.com ;