THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA CHONGQING URBAN RURAL INTEGRATION PROJECT
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
CHONGQING URBAN RURAL INTEGRATION PROJECT
Consulting Services for
Design Review and Certification (Contract No. TA-F).
Expression of Interest
This specific procurement notice follows the general procurement notice for this project, which was published at dgMarket on September 27, 2006.
The People’s Republic of China has applied for a loan of US$84 million from the World Bank towards implementation of the Chongqing Urban Rural Integration Project, and it intends to apply a part of the loan proceeds to eligible payments under the contracts for consulting services as design review and certification.
The overall development objective of the project is to: increase access of residents in participating counties and districts to improved public services including roads, water supply, employment training, and primary health care. The project is designed to address a main development challenge in Chongqing: to narrow the public service gap between residents living in rural areas with those living in urban centers.
The results of the project would be measured by the following indicators: a) increase in population with access to road transport networks that reduce travel time to main urban county centers; b) increase in population with access to safe drinking water; c) increase of unemployed or unskilled rural laborers with access to vocational education programs; and d) increase of population with access to primary health care services at the community level. Under the project, the PIUs deserve specialist consultancy to provide a comprehensive oversight of all activities starting from site investigations through bidding document preparation, to achieve functionally efficient and least cost infrastructure investments.
The services required under this assignment mainly include:
(a) overall design of all the sub-components, taking account of recommendations of the Environment Assessments, Resettlement Action Plan and Social Assessment;
(b) civil works design for water supply, roads, sanitation infrastructure, community service centers and community health clinics;
(c) equipment procurement plan review for equipment for migrant rural labor training and community health clinics;
(d) training program review for community health clinics;
(e) environmental mitigation measures and landscaping design;
(f) other engineering designs (including electric power supply and lighting, etc.);
(g) completeness of technical specifications, bills of quantities and contract drawings;
(h) bid document review; and
(i) cost estimates and budget.
The Chongqing Project Management Office (CPMO) invites expressions of interest from interested eligible consultants, with experience of the above assignments. Interested consultants must submit information to demonstrate that they are qualified to perform the services, which should include the firm’s brochures, understanding of the project background, descriptions of similar assignments undertaken in the past five years, in similar conditions, if any, and availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.
Expressions of interest must be delivered to the address below, no later than 17:00, July 20, 2009 (local time). They may also be submitted electronically. However, CPMO will not be responsible for any delay in delivery or loss of electronic submissions.
Letters of invitation for consulting services will be issued to short listed firms and a consultant will be selected in accordance with procedures set out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, May, 2004, revised October 2006.
Chongqing Project Management Office
Attention: Ning Yu, Deputy Director of CPMO
Address: 14/F, Sun of ASIA Mansion, 248 Renmin Road. Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400015, China
Tel: (86) 23 6387 7677, (86) 23 6389 9614; Fax: (86) 23 6387 7822
E-mail: christinaning@hotmail.com
Are you interested in this Invitation for Bids opportunity in China?
China is one of the world’s great growth markets and is likely to be for many years to come. Foreign companies often face difficulties in assessing Chinese market demand and enacting effective strategies because of the language barriers, culture differences, and high expense.
BPOVIA is the pioneering virtual assistant and Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) service provider in China. Combines international perspective with local know-how, BPOVIA can provide our clients China business development service and help our clients doing successful business in China.
Please visit http://www.BPOVIA.com/ for details about our service.
Popularity: 1% [?]