Advance Action on Recruitment of Consultants

Invitation for Expressions of Interest for Design & Supervision Consultants

Country/Borrower: India

Title of Proposed Project: Uttarakhand Urban Sector Development Investment Program (UUSDIP)

The Investment Program Management Unit (IPMU), Uttarakhand Urban Sector Development Investment Program (UUSDIP) under Urban Development Department (UDD), Government of Uttarakhand (GoU) is the nodal agency to implement UUSDIP, proposed to be financed by Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 31 towns of the State including its three major towns namely Dehradun, Hardwar and Nainital.

The Program comprises mainly the following components;
  • Part A: Improvement of Urban Infrastructure Services (Water Supply, Waste Water Management, Solid Waste Management, Urban Roads and Slum Improvement) and
  • Part B: Capacity Building and Investment Program Management Support.
For the above services, UUSDIP intends to engage reputed National consulting firms having adequate experience in design and supervision of urban infrastructure, in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants and with the Quality-Cost Based Selection (QCBS) procedures of ADB.

Consultancy services are likely to be divided in to the following two packages:
  • Package 1: 18 Program towns in Garhwal Region
  • Package 2: 13 Program towns in Kumaun Region
The Program will be implemented in four tranches in a period of about 8 years. The present assignment would cover approximately 612 person months of national consulting services over a period of around 4 years which may likely to be extended based on performance and requirement of the Program.

Reputed National Consulting firms / JVs / Consortium with successful and high standard of achievements in the Design and Supervision assignments in time bound integrated urban infrastructure projects with expertise in the above mentioned fields are invited to furnish their Expression of Interest (EOI), which should be supported by details of the firm / firms which includes the details like - name of the firm, country of origin, year of incorporation, experience of working in similar areas, relevant experience in projects of similar nature and complexity, financial resources, Annual Turnover (last three years), registration details of the firms and details of key personnel. UUSDIP is looking for a firm who has an overall experience mainly in
  1. Project Management;
  2. Project formulation and feasibility studies;
  3. designs and supervision of integrated urban infrastructure projects (water supply, sewerage, solid waste management, urban roads and slum upgrading)
  4. safeguard issues (environment and social etc.);
  5. Procurement work in multilateral funded projects;
  6. Community Development;
  7. construction supervision / management and quality control and other related areas of project.
The Expression of Interest should clearly reflect the experience of the firm in the above and allied fields in the Projects of similar nature. Experience of the firms mainly in the above mentioned areas for the last 10 years (from Jan 1997) would be considered for evaluation.

UUSDIP reserves the right to accept or reject any / all EOIs without assigning any reason.

The EOIs should reach the office of the Program Director, UUSDIP in the address below not later than 17.00 hrs, 5 October 2007. Late submissions would be rejected.

Subrata Biswas, IAS
Program Director
Uttarakhand Urban Sector Development Investment Program (UUSDIP)
New ISBT Complex, Hardwar By Pass, Majra,
Dehradun - 248 171
Telephone - +91-135-2643894; Telefax - +91 - 135 - 2643895;
Email: uusdip@gmail.com

Date of Advance Action Approval: 15 August 2007