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Loans 2163/2164(SF): COMMUNITY WATER SERVICES AND HEALTH PROJECT (CWSHP)

Request for Expressions of Interest (EOI)

FOR CENTRAL SUPPORT TEAM (CST)

The Government of Indonesia has applied for a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) towards the cost of the Community Water Services and Health Project (CWSHP). The Directorate General of Communicable Disease Control and Environmental Health (DG CDC&EH), Ministry of health (MOH), intends to procure international and domestic consultants for the Central Support Team (CST), to be financed from CWSHP in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants by Asian Development Bank and Its Borrowers (January 2005) and applying the Quality Cost Based Selection (QCBS) process. Loan is expected to be effective in 2005. No commitment or contract signing can be made before the Loan is effective.

CWSHP will be implemented in 20 districts (kabupaten) in the provinces of Central Kalimantan (6 districts), West Kalimantan (6 districts), Jambi (5 districts) and Bengkulu (3 districts) over a five-year period from 2005 to 2010.

The Project will follow community-driven and participatory approach with the objective to provide rural water supply and sanitation facilities and services to participating communities/villages, together with capacity building for district and communities, and sanitation and hygiene behavioral change programs.

The CST will be part of the Central Project Management Unit (CPMU) at DG CDC&EH and be responsible for two years to assist the CPMU in the overall management of the Project (project supervision, budgeting, administration, coordination, monitoring, reporting and procurement), and the provision of technical support (including the preparation of concepts and designs of quality assurance and training modules). The consultant services for the CST are estimated to require: (i) 33 person-months of international consultants in the fields of project management (team leader), sanitation and health behavioral change, and rural water supply/water treatment and sanitation engineering; (ii) 157 person-months of domestic consultants in similar fields plus procurement and contracting, accounting and auditing, management information systems/ monitoring and evaluation, institutional capacity strengthening and training, environmental training and monitoring, media, quality assurance, hydrogeology, and gender; and (iii) 360 person-months of domestic Process Monitoring Consultants (PMC) to be based at district level (1 person for each district) and reporting directly to CPMU and ADB.

Interested consulting firms/consortia which are registered with appropriate certifying organizations and/or in ADB's DACON are invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) in the prescribed format (1 original and 1 copy, written in English) by 16:00 on 8 August 2005 to:

CSC Procurement
Contact Person: Suprapto
Consultant Building, Second Floor
Directorate General of Communicable Disease Control and Environmental Health
Jl. Percetakan Negara No 29, Jakarta 10560, Indonesia
Telp: (62-21) 4261490; Fax: (62-21) 42887466;
Email: cwshp05@yahoo.com

1. Company profile of each member firm (including financial capability).
2. A statement of general experience of each firm/consortium member in local government capacity building, community empowerment, rural water supply and sanitation infrastructure development, health and hygiene behavioral change, and project management-listing completed projects during the past 10 years, including details on clients, contract value and scope of works.
3. Consortium 'letters of association' (if applicable).

The CSC Procurement will inform the EOI applicants in writing of the names of those applicants who have been placed on the long-list, and who may be short-listed and invited to submit a detailed proposal/tender in due course.