Loan No. 2170: Regional Development Project Phase II - Environmental Infrastructure and Management

The Republic of the Maldives has received for a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) toward the cost of Regional Development Project Phase II - Environmental Infrastructure and Management The loan was approved 28 April 2005.

The Project seeks to promote regional development to support equitable access to social services and, therefore, relieve Male of intense development population and environmental pressures.

The Project components are:
  1. Part A: Improving environmental infrastructure;
  2. Part B: Strengthening planning and environmental management;
  3. Part C: Building management and implementation capacity

Procurement

Goods, related services, and civil works to be financed from the loan proceeds will be procured in accordance with ADB's Guidelines for Procurement and Government procurement procedures acceptable to ADB. The Sanitation schemes will be integrated into a combined design and supervision, and supply and construction packages for international competitive bidding. Equipment packages valued at $500,000 equivalent or less will be procured following international shopping procedures acceptable to ADB, and packages valued at $100,000 equivalent or less will be under direct purchasing procedures. Civil works contracts for the catchment rehabilitation under the rainwater tank component for values less than $15,000 equivalent will follow ADB's Guide on Community Participation in Procurement.

Consulting Services

The Project will require 141 person-months of consulting services (61 person-months international, and 80 domestic). Consulting services are required to facilitate project implementation and to strengthen the institutional, administrative and financial capacities of the PMU and PIUs. One consulting firm will provide consulting services for the PMU and the PIUs. One consulting firm will provide consulting services for the PMU and PIUs. The consultants, to be financed under the loan, will be recruited in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants using a quality and cost-based selection method and other arrangements satisfactory to ADB for the engagement of domestic consultants.

Interested bidders from ADB's member countries who wish obtain additional information may contact:

Ministry of Finance and Treasury
Ameenee Magu
Male, Republic of Maldives
Fax No: (960) 324432

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