The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Feasibility Study for each of Maragua 4 Dam and Ndarugu 1 Dam

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The Government of Kenya has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Kenya Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project Additional Financing (WASSIP AF), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. Tendersontime, a leading business e procurement tenders provider is the first agency to report this notification.
Project: Water and Sanitation Services Improvement Project Additional Financing (WASSIP AF)
Credit No.: 5103KE
Assignment Title: The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Feasibility Study for each of Maragua 4
Dam and Ndarugu 1 Dam
Reference No. (as per Procurement Plan) : 50
Contract No. AWSB/WASSIP-AF/COMP 1/CS-50/16
Country: Kenya
2.) The consulting services ("the Services") involve carrying out a feasibility study of a Public
Private Partnership (PPP) for the design, construction, operation, maintenance and financing of (i) Maragua 4 dam and its subsequent downstream works and (ii) Ndarugu 1 dam and its subsequent downstream works. The downstream works include water treatment plants, raw and treated water transmission mains, storage facilities and treated water distribution systems. A Feasibility study (FS) is a necessary pre-condition to the development of a project under PPP as defined in the PPP Act 2013.

3.) The objective of this consultancy is to conduct a Feasibility Study for each of the Maragua 4 and
Ndarugu 1 Dam Schemes as public-private partnership projects with the main elements of each FS being;

a.) Definition of public private partnership project concept
b.) Legal, regulatory, policy review
c.) Technical feasibility and financial viability including demand, construction, subsurface, safeguards/ performance standards, economic and financial perspectives
d.) Presentation of technical and financial options including possibility of implementation of each of Maragua 4 dam and Ndaruga I dam as a multipurpose dam. Options of domestic water supply, energy generation and even irrigation appropriate recommendations made, and looking at the feasibility or not of including the dam as a component of the PPP.
e.) Presentation of the PPP options
f.) Guidance on PPP implementation aspects including administrative and institutional arrangements
g.) Market survey and preliminary market sounding, including identification of potential bidders and level of in principle interest
h.) Consultations with stakeholders and preliminary communications plan
4. The consultancy services will be carried out over a period of [25] weeks
5.) The Athi Water Services Board now invites eligible consulting firms ("Consultants") to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are:
a.) Experience in similar assignments
b.) Experience in similar conditions.
c.) Availability of appropriate skills amongst staff.

6.) The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants [under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grantsl by World Bank Borrowers July 2014 ("Consultant Guidelines"), setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflict of interest.
7.) Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture or a sub-consultancy to enhance their qualifications.
8.) A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in the Consultant Guidelines.
9.) Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours from 0800 to 1700 hours from Monday to Friday excluding lunch hour (1300 to 1400Hrs) and public holidays.
10.) Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) by 4th May 2016 East African time.
11.) Those submitted by package should be clearly marked "Request for Expression of Interest for for Consultancy Services
The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Feasibility Study for each of Maragua 4 Dam and Ndarugu Dam, Contract No: AWSB/WaSSIP-AF/Comp 1/CS- 50/16".
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