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Loans 2163/2164(SF): Community Water Services and Health Project (CWSHP)

Request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for Regional Support Teams (RSTs)(Bengkulu)

The Government of Indonesia has applied for a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) towards the cost of Community Water Services and Health Project (CWSHP). The Provincial Health Office of Bengkulu, intends to procure domestic consultants for Regional Support Teams (RSTs), to be financed from CWSHP in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants by Asian Development Bank and Its Borrowers (April 2006) and applying the Quality Cost Based Selection (QCBS) process.

CWSHP in the province of Bengkulu will be implemented in 3 districts: Bengkulu Utara, Bengkulu Selatan and Rejang Lebong over a five-year period from 2006 to 2010. The Project will follow a community-driven, participatory approach with the objectives 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 program. DG DC&EH will be the Executing Agency for the Project, and a Central Project Management Unit (CPMU) will be established at Directorate General of Disease Control & Environmental Health.

The Regional Support Teams (RSTs), consisting of the following: Provincial Support Team (PST); District Support Teams (DST), and Community Facilitator Teams (CFT). The RSTs will be supervised by and report to Provincial Project Secretariat/ Project Manager in the Provincial Health Office, and work closely with the Provincial Coordinating Team, District Coordinating Teams and the communities. The RSTs will be responsible for assisting with project management and providing technical support at local level, and assisting the communities in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of their Community Action Plans (CAP).

The following consultant services for the RSTs are required: for the PSTs

1. administration, finance and monitoring (as Team Leader),
2. water and sanitation and water quality, and
3. institutional capacity strengthening and training; for the DSTs
   1. community mobilization and equity,
   2. sanitation and hygiene behavioral change, and
   3. water sanitation engineering and quality control; and for the CFTs
   1. community mobilization,
   2. sanitation and hygiene behavioral change and training, and
   3. water sanitation engineering and quality control. It is anticipated that CFT members will be recruited individually or as individual representatives of appropriate NGOs and that there will be four CFTs for each district.

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 or in both English and Indonesian) by 16:00 on 5 October 2006 to:

Head of Procurement Committee
Contact Person: Muhammad Mulyo
Provincial Health Office of Bengkulu
Jl. Indra Giri No 2 Padang Harapan Bengkulu
Tel/Fax: (0736) 22418
Email: cwshp_bkl@yahoo.com

EOIs must contain the following:

1. Company profile (of each member firm in the case of consortium), including financial capability.
2. A statement of general experience of each firm/consortium member in community-driven, participatory water, sanitation and hygiene development in rural communities, including working with local community facilitators and/or NGOs-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 will inform EOI applicants in writing 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.