Advance Action on Procurement, Recruitment of Consultants and Retroactive Financing

Country/Borrower: People's Republic of China

Title of Proposed Project: Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project

Name and Address of Executing Agency:

Jilin Province Construction Department
Mr. Chu Minhua, Deputy Director General, Jilin Province Construction Department
Mr. Wang Yuxin, Director, PMO
Fax No.: 86431 8275253
Email: jilinpmo@126.com
Address: Construction Mansion, 287 Guiyang St., Kuancheng District
Changchun, Jilin, PRC 130051
Brief Description of the Project:

The Project is designed to enhance the urban environment and improve public health and quality of life for urban residents in the cities of Changchun and Yanji, by increasing wastewater coverage, enhancing solid waste management, improving the supply of potable water and reducing air pollution. The Project has 3 components and related capacity development which include improved and expanded water supply, wastewater services and solid waste management in Changchun, improved and expanded water supply and wastewater facilities in Yanji, improved air quality in Yanji through more efficient central heating system, and institutional capacity development for effective and efficient project implementation and management. The Project will:
  1. construct No. 5 WTP with a capacity of 300,000 m3/day, 25.5 km of water transmission pipelines, 58.15 km of distribution network and two pumping stations;
  2. construct of the Dongnan WWTP with a treatment capacity of 100,000 m3/day, 53.46 km of sewer network, 34.2 km of stormwater pipelines, and 23.5 km of wastewater interceptors;
  3. construct of a sanitary landfill facility with a capacity of 2,600 tons per day with a 10 year service life, and an additional expected life of 12 years after expansion;
  4. construct of a WWTP with a capacity of 60,000 m3/day, 10.5 km of raw water transmission pipelines, 9 km of distribution mains, and 35.7 km of water distribution pipelines;
  5. construct of a effluent reuse WWTP with a capacity of 50,000 m3/day, 15.1 km of water reuse transmission mains, and 40 km of sewer network;
  6. provide central heating to an area of 6.97 million m2 south of the Buerhatong River, and includes 42.52 km of heating pipelines, 6.2 km of steam pipelines, 35 heat exchange stations, and one booster pumping station; and
  7. provide central heating to an area of 9.3 million m2 north of the Buerhatong River, and includes 77.6 km of heating pipelines, and 64 heat exchange stations.
Brief Description of Goods and Related Services Works or Consulting Services to be Procured:

Advance action and retroactive financing have been approved for recruitment of consultants, procurement of goods and civil works. A total of 18 person-months of international and 108 person-months of national consulting services will be required for the Project. A consulting firm will be recruited in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants using the quality and cost-based selection method. All advance procurement actions will be undertaken in accordance with ADB's Procurement Guidelines.

Date of Advance Contracting and Retroactive Financing Approval: 27 June 2007