Demande d’expression d’intérêt pour un assistant technique en approvisionnement en eau afin d’aider l’agence d’exécution, la Guma Valley Water Company (GVWC), et les agences d’exécution partenaires à mettre en œuvre le projet de manière efficace et efficiente – Sierra Leone

Details :

Date Issued : 26th July

Sector : Water Supply and Sanitation

Financing Agreement Reference : Various

Project ID No .: P-SL-E00-004

Description :

  1. The Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone has received financing from the African Development Fund (ADF) toward the cost of the Freetown WASH and Aquatic Environment Revamping Project (WASHAERP) and intends to apply for additional financing from other sources, including the Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Fund for International Development (OFID), Kuwait Fund, Islamic Development Bank (ISDB), Saudi Fund, Green Climate Fund (GCF), Adaptation Fund (AF), ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency toward co-financing of the project. It is further intended to apply part of the financing to eligible payments under the contract for a Water Supply Technical Assistant (Water Supply TA) to support the Executing Agency, Guma Valley Water Company (GVWC), and partner implementing agencies to effectively and efficiently implement the project.
  1. Services include working as a member of a multidisciplinary team of technical specialists to provide relevant specialist expertise pertaining to all water supply aspects of the project including :  Supervision of the work of engineering design and construction supervision consultants, including preparation of TOR and evaluation of proposals for all relevant services under the project ; procurement of turnkey works contracts ; Reporting to the executing agency project manager, including contributing to the preparation of the Annual Workplan and Budget and Quarterly, Semi Annual and Annual Project Implementation Progress Reports. The project has been developed based on the Integrated Water Resources management/Integrated Urban Water Management (IWRM/IUWM) approach and therefore includes interventions in rehabilitation and expansion of water treatment, transmission, storage and distribution systems ; solid and liquid waste collection, treatment and disposal infrastructure and services ; infrastructure provision and capacity enhancement for effective protection of the Western Area Protected Forest/Water-shed ; and promotion of good sanitation, hygiene and child nutrition practices of the primary beneficiaries while facilitating their gainful participation in the improvement of WASH services. The assignment is to be performed in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and will require full time input over a period of at least 36 months renewable on annual basis subject to satisfactory performance.
  1. GVWC now invites eligible individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing this service. Interested consultants must provide information (detailed curriculum vita including bio-data, copies of academic and professional qualification certificates and contact details), indicating that they are qualified to perform the services. Key qualification requirements include Master’s degree in Water Supply & Waste Engineering or closely related field ; At least 15 years of post-qualification practical experience in water supply engineering with a continuous track record of at least ten (10) years in urban water supply ; demonstrable experience in design of conjunctive urban water supply systems, including water transmission, water treatment and distribution infrastructure/systems ; demonstratable familiarly and practical experience in soft WASH interventions ; experience in procuring and managing turnkey works contracts and construction supervision contracts ; verifiable Technical Assistant experience for multilateral and bilateral donor funded infrastructure investment projects in Sub-Saharan African, especially in countries in transition ; proficiency in application of relevant technical software and Microsoft applications ; fluency in English (listening, reading, writing, speaking).
  1. Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Policy and Methodology for Bank Group Funded Operations” (BPM), dated October 2015 which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org.
  1. Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours : 08:00 – 16:30 Hrs., Sierra Leone time.
  1. Expressions of interest must be delivered by email or hand copy to the address below not later than 13th August 2019 at 16:00 hrs. and labelled « Water Supply Technical Assistant”.

Attn :

Procurement Officer, Guma Valley Water Company 7th Floor, 12/14 Lamina Sankoh Street Freetown, SIERRA LEONE

Tel: +232-78-430-430/+232 88 275 970

Email: gumaprocurement@yahoo.com, with copy to r.lubunga@afdb.org

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