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Advance Action on Recruitment of ConsultantsTitle of Proposed Project: IND: Multitranche Financing Facility for the Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program (P38411-01)Invitation for Submission of Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for
1. India is seeking a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to enhance productivity and sustainability of the existing major and medium irrigation schemes and community-based minor lift irrigation systems in the four northern river basins and a part of the Mahanadi River delta in Orissa state (the Program). The Program aims to strengthen the institutional basis for participatory irrigation management (PIM) and integrated water resources management with management reforms and capacity strengthening relevant institutions. Activities will be financed through ADB's multitranche financing facility (MFF) and part of the proceeds will be applied for consulting services for planning and implementing minor lift irrigation schemes.
2. As part of the Program's implementation arrangements, a program management unit (PMU) will be established within a PIM/Command Area Development directorate, which has been set up in the Government of Orissa's Department of Water Resources (DOWR). The PMU will have a lift irrigation cell to plan and implement a total of 1,400 minor lift schemes through mobile planning team and mobile subproject implementation office (SIO). DOWR intends to engage a national consulting firm for MLIPI to support institutional building and ground coordination for program delivery, under the guidance of the Project Director, PMU and with support from a team of international and national consultants engaged for overall institutional strengthening and project management.
3. A total of approximately 288 person-months of national consultants in PIM, agriculture, project economics, minor lift irrigation, and monitoring and evaluation will be required, with the consulting firm's services tentatively commencing in July 2008, for an estimated contract period of 24 months.
4. The national consulting firm will be selected and engaged in accordance with the Guidelines on the Use of Consultants by ADB and its Borrowers (February 2007), and using the Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method with full technical proposal.
5. Interested and eligible firms from ADB member countries are invited to submit EOIs including information which will demonstrate their capabilities and experiences that they are qualified to perform the required services not later than 25 February 2008 to the following address:
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