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Loan 2491: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project
The Government of the People's Republic of China has applied for a loan from ADB to finance the cost of the Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project. The loan was approved on 15 December 2008. The Executing Agency of the loan is the Wuzhou municipal government (WMG) in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project will adopt a new approach to address the geohazard concern of the city. The basic principle of this new approach to geohazard management is a shift from disaster rehabilitation to prevention. Under the Project, geological disasters are to be prevented through holistic urban planning and integrated public investment. The combination of these efforts will result in (i) carefully designed urban planning for long-term urban expansion, (ii) relocation of the people living in the geohazard-prone valley to the newly developed geohazard-free urban area, (iii) engineering measures for geohazard control to convert the evacuated geohazard-prone valley into geohazard-free land for urban redevelopment, and (iv) stronger geohazard forecasting and early warning capability to improve the effectiveness of the city's geohazard management system.
The Project will have three major components generating the following outputs:
- Pingminchong valley geohazard resettlement and prevention. This component will involve (a) building a resettlement community in Zaochong-a geohazard-free urban area, to be equipped with quality housing and municipal infrastructure to accommodate about 6,823 people or 1,816 households to be evacuated from the geohazard-prone Pingminchong valley; and (b) undertaking geohazard-control engineering measures to convert the evacuated Pingminchong valley into geohazard-free lands with a total area of about 20 hectares (ha) for urban redevelopment.
- Hongling road network and related infrastructure. This component will entail building a comprehensive 36.2-kilometer urban road network together with the related municipal infrastructure, including drainage pipelines, sewers, public green areas, lighting, and traffic management facilities, to promote and facilitate the urban expansion into the geohazard-free Hongling-a new urban area of about 540 ha on the northern bank of Xunjiang between the newly constructed railway station and the fully developed urban area.
- Capacity development and institutional building. This component will involve (a) developing and establishing a geographic forecasting and early warning system that is compatible with a geographic information system (GIS) to strengthen the geohazard management of the city, and (b) providing technical support, including relevant training in urban planning and geohazard management for the WMG and the project implementing agency to strengthen their capacity to meet the operational requirements of the Project during implementation. In addition, the Project will provide specialized consulting services under this component to improve public awareness of geohazards and geohazard management through the existing community-based geohazard monitoring and alarming system.
Procurement
The procurement of goods and works financed under the loan will be carried out in accordance with ADB's Procurement Guidelines (2007, as amended from time to time). Contracts for goods estimated to exceed $1.0 million and contracts for works estimated to exceed $10.0 million will be procured using international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures. Contracts for goods and for works estimated to cost the same or less than the ICB values, but more than $100,000 will be procured using national competitive bidding (NCB) procedures, in accordance with the PRC Tendering and Bidding Law (1999), subject to modifications agreed upon with ADB. Contracts for goods and works estimated to cost $100,000 or less will be procured using shopping procedures. For contracts to be procured through ICB procedures, procurement documents including invitations for bids, invitations for prequalification, draft prequalification documents, draft bidding documents, and prequalification and bid evaluation reports, are to be submitted to ADB for prior review and approval. For contracts to be procured through NCB procedures, the first draft English language version of the procurement documents should be submitted for ADB review and approval regardless of the estimated contract amount. The ADB-approved procurement documents should then be used as a model for all NCB procurement financed by ADB for the Project, and need not be reviewed further. ADB will review the bid evaluation report and award of contract on a post-review basis. For contracts to be procured using shopping procedures, ADB will review the award of contracts on a post-review basis.
Consulting Services
The Project will fund 18 person-months of international consulting services and 108 person-months of national consulting services to support the capacity development of the WMG in (i) geohazard management, and (ii) institutional strengthening for project implementation and management. The consultants will be recruited through one consulting firm to be selected in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007, as amended from time to time), using the quality- and cost-based selection method at the quality-to-cost ratio of 80:20 with full technical proposal procedures. Consulting services are required for (i) designing and developing a GIS-compatible geohazard forecasting and early warning system; (ii) providing project implementation and management support for PMO and IA; and (iii) conducting training for capacity development of the WMG, particularly in urban development, project management, and geohazard management.
Interested bidders from ADB member countries who wish to obtain additional information may contact the following:
Mr. LIANG Yun
Section Head
Foreign Capita Utilization Section
Wuzhou Development and Reform Commission
Email: liangyun3820892@163.com
Tel. : +86 774 382 0892
Fax: +86 774 382 0891
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