Loan 2301: Urban Development Sector Project

The Government of Mongolia has received a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) towards the cost of the Urban Development Sector Project. The loan was approved 19 December 2006.

The Project will improve the living conditions and quality of life of the urban population in the project towns. Specifically, the Project will upgrade basic urban services, urban roads, and on-plot facilities. The Project has four components:
  • A - improvement of basic urban services,
  • B - urban road improvement,
  • C - small loans for water connections and on-plot facility improvements; and
  • D - institutional development and training.

Procurement
ADB-financed civil works, equipment and materials will be procured in accordance with ADB's Procurement Guidelines (April 2006). Major contracts for equipment and materials will be tendered through international competitive bidding, national competitive bidding, or shopping procedures, depending on the contract amount. Civil works contracts will be procured through national competitive bidding or international competitive bidding.

The Project will procure pipes and fitting and pumping equipment.

Consulting Services
The Project will require about 195 person-months of international and 82 person-months of national consulting services to support the PMU and PIUs in project implementation and management, the feasibility study for the urban road improvement component, detailed design and survey, institutional development, and education and training. The ADB loan will finance 31 person-months of international and 82 person-months of national consultants.

The international consultants will have expertise in
  1. project management and procurement,
  2. finance and microfinance,
  3. institutional development and financial management, and
  4. sanitation.

The national consultants will have expertise in
  1. resettlement;
  2. environment;
  3. legal aspects;
  4. database development;
  5. financial management;
  6. construction supervision, feasibility studies for the remaining subprojects under component B, and detailed designs of components A and B.

The consultants will be selected and engaged in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (April 2006 ,as amended from time to time). All international consultants and the national consultants for project management will be selected and contracted individually. National consultants for feasibility studies and detailed designs will be selected and contracted as firms using ADB's quality and cost-based selection procedure among short-listed national consulting firms.

German development cooperation through the German Development Service (DED) will provide 144 person-months of long-term international experts in community engineering (2 positions) and community development and training. German development cooperation through the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will provide a maximum of 20 person-months of short-term experts.

These experts will be assigned at the PMU and PIUs, and guided by and report to the respective PMU and PIU directors. DED and GTZ will select these experts in accordance with their own guidelines.

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

Ministry of Construction and Urban Development
Contact : Mr. Ts. Gankhuu
Fax. No. + 976-11 321 187
Tel. No. : + 976-11 327 252
Address : Project Management Office
Ulaanbaatar 211238
Barilgachydn Talbai 3 Mongolia
 

 


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