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Advance Action on Procurement and Recruitment of Consultants

Country/Borrower: Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

Title of Proposed Project: Central Region Small and Medium Towns Development Project

Name and address of the Executing Agency:

Dr. Pham Ngoc Thai
Director
Management Board of Urban and Technical Infrastructure Projects
Ministry of Construction
37 Le Dai Hanh St., Hanoi, Viet Nam
Fax No. (84-4) 8215428
Brief Description of Project:

The Project involves water supply and environmental sanitation infrastructure development and expansion-to include water supply, drainage and wastewater, and solid waste management-in the project towns: Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan), Gia Nghia (Dak Nong), Cam Ranh and Ninh Hoa (Khanh Hoa), Ca Na and Thap Cham (Ninh Thuan), and Song Cau and Tuy Hoa (Phu Yen). The expected outcomes are:

  1. improved and expanded access to safe and sustainable water supply services for Ca Na, Gia Nghia, Ninh Hoa;
  2. improved drainage and wastewater services and management for Cam Ranh, Gia Nghia, Phan Thiet, Song Cau, Thap Cham, and Tuy Hoa;
  3. improved solid waste service coverage and management for Gia Nghia, Cam Ranh, and Song Cau;
  4. increased public awareness of the importance of good environmental hygiene and sanitation and reduced risk to public health;
  5. improved management capacity of POEs and WSS providers, sustained service provision through adequate tariffs and cost recovery, and strengthened sector regulation; and
  6. greater community and private sector participation for WSS service sustainability.

Project Components:

1. Part A: Water Supply Development and Expansion
This component will expand piped water to the project towns of Ca Na, Gia Nghia, and Ninh Hoa; increase combined water production capacity from 5,000 to 16,000 m3/day; and ensure 24-hour uninterrupted water supply service. The Project will rehabilitate headworks, including 10 kilometers (km) of raw-water pipelines, construct three water treatment plants in Gia Nghia and Ninh Hoa, construct 18 km of treated-water pipelines to Ca Na, and provide pumping stations in the towns. Expansion of water distribution networks in the towns will be supported by building 98 km of new transmission and distribution pipes and installing 7,000 new piped-water connections.

2. Part B: Drainage and Wastewater Management
This component will improve drainage, prevent flooding, and treat wastewater in Cam Ranh, Gia Nghia, Phan Thiet, Song Cau, Thap Cham, and Tuy Hoa. It will construct integrated combined drainage systems comprising:
  1. 112 km of primary and secondary drains;
  2. 92 km of tertiary drains;
  3. 5 km of pressure mains; and
  4. 20 km of wastewater collection and interceptor systems; and
  5. four wastewater stabilization ponds to temporarily retain runoff water from drainage channels in Cam Ranh, Phan Thiet, Thap Cham, and Tuy Hoa.

3. Part C: Solid Waste Management
This component will expand and reequip the waste collection and transport systems to increase collection coverage in Cam Ranh, Gia Nghia, and Song Cau. Three sanitary landfill sites totaling 15 ha with a capacity of 240 tons/day will be developed, and solid waste and landfill equipment will be procured for waste transport and landfill operations in Cam Ranh, Gia Nghia, and Song Cau.

4. Part D: Community Environmental Sanitation and Awareness
The activities will comprise:
  1. public awareness education campaigns for good environmental hygiene practices, and
  2. social intermediation and the development of information, education, and communication initiatives for good environmental hygiene practices to minimize duplication of materials.

5. Part E: Project Management and Institutional Strengthening
The institutional strengthening subcomponent will provide consultancy services to develop a time-bound action plan to ensure improved and sustained delivery of WSS services in the project towns. The Project will strengthen national tariff policies by preparing affordability and tariff guidelines along with cost-recovery mechanisms.

Consultant Selection:

In order to implement the Project, consultants will be selected and engaged using ADB's quality- and cost-based selection procedures in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2006). An international consulting firm in association with a national consulting firm will be recruited by the PCU using the quality- and cost-based selection procedure to assist the PCU and PPMUs in project management and implementation. Consultancy services will include project detailed design and supervision comprising engineering, environmental, sanitation, financial, and social aspects; social, poverty, resettlement, and environmental monitoring; and capacity building and training programs to strengthen the institutional capacities and improve operational efficiencies of POEs and WSS service providers. A total of 1,045 person-months of consulting services (93 international and 952 national) will be required.

Date of advanced action for the recruitment of consultants: 21 July 2006

The Letter of Invitation to submit detailed technical and financial proposals is expected to be issued in early January 2006 to shortlisted firms.