REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTING SERVICES-FIRM SELECTION)
COUNTRY: LESOTHO
LESOTHO LOWLANDS WATER AND SANITATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT III CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION OF DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS AND PILOT FAECAL SLUDGE MANAGEMENT TREATMENT UNIT
Sector: Water Sector
Project ID No.: P-LS-E00-008
Ref No. LS-LLWDPIII- 00300-CS-QCBS
Loan No.: 2100150043397 Date: 9th FEBRUARY 2024
- The Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho has received a Loan fi nancing from the African Development Fund (ADF) towards the cost of the Lesotho Lowlands Water Development and Sanitation Project Phase III (LLWDSP III) and intends to apply part of the agreed amount of this loan to payments under the contract for Consultancy services for design and construction supervision of distribution networks and a pilot Faecal Sludge Management treatment unit.
- The services included under this project are to carry out: the design review of selected and agreed Conveyance or Tertiary pipelines, preparation of preliminary designs, detailed designs of distribution networks and a pilot faecal sludge management treatment unit and construction supervision of the tertiary water transmissions mains and distribution networks and faecal sludge treatment unit including service reservoirs and all the related works within the selected project area or settlements.
- The Ministry of Natural Resources – Department of Water now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing consultancy services as summarized in 2 above. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they have ten (10) years of demonstrable knowledge and experience in the detailed engineering design, construction supervision of tertiary water transmission mains and distribution networks and three (3) years for feacal sludge management treatment units. To have successfully carried out and completed at least five water supply projects similar or bigger in nature and scope, and at least two feacal sludge management treatment units in the past five years in developing countries. (Brochures, names and contact details of organizations for which the consultant has completed similar assignment, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.)
- The firm shall indicate the most recent successful performances (at least five projects) accompanied by a certificate of completion issued by the client. Must demonstrate experience in FIDIC (Red and Yellow books) contract of works for civil engineering construction. Consultants may constitute Joint Ventures to enhance their chances of qualification. The Client will provide available data to the Consultant and the Consultant will undertake the assignments with highest integrity to ensure that the project objectives are met. The consultancy services will be carried out within a period of Twenty – four (24) calendar months. (Six (6) months design stage and eighteen (18) months construction stage.
- Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with Quality Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method procedures set out in the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Policy for Bank Group Funded Operations”, dated October 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org
- Interested firms may obtain clarifications if any by email to the Procurement Specialist at [email protected] cc [email protected] or can come to the office from 8:00am -16:45hrs.
Expressions of interest of not more than one hundred A4 pages must be hand delivered or send by courier to the address below by 11:00hrs local time on or before 23rd February 2024 and mention “EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION OF DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS AND A PILOT FEACAL SLUDGE MANAGEMENT TREATMENT UNIT
Att: Mamathe Makhaola (Mrs)
Project Manager
Lesotho Lowlands Water Development and Sanitation Project Phase III
LNDC Development House, Block D, Level 9
Constitution Rd, Maseru 100.
Lesotho