Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)

Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP)

Project Management Unit, LGED-RDEC Bhaban (Level-3)

Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar,Dhaka -1207.

www.lged.gov.bd

Memo No.: LGED/PD/HILIP/M-02(Part-01)/2012/2132 Date: 15/01/2017

Request for Expression of Interest (EOI)

For

Short-listing of a National Individual Consultant: Quality Conntrol Engineer (QCE)

The Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has received a credit for Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP)) from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Spanish Food Security Co-financing Facility Trust Fund (IFAD Loan No-I-847-BD, IFAD Grant No-I-C-847-BD & Trust Loan No-E-3-BD) and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit to cover eligible payments under the contract for the provision of consultancy services for the project by the following National Individual Consultant. In view of above, the Project intends to engage the same consultant. The service, experience, resource and delivery capacity expected for the position are outlined as follows:-

Package No.	Position Name	No of Post	Qualification and Experience	Key Responsibilities
HILIP/16/SD3/02	Quality Conntrol Engineer (QCE)	1	The applicant should have at least Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from any reputed university. S/he should have at least 20 years of professional experience of which 5 years as quality control engineer in any institution. The incumbent should have at least 5 years’ experience as consultant in civil works especially road construction/ maintenance. The consultant should have experience in donor financing project management, preparation of operation manual, experiences in quality control, structural design, BOQ preparation, supervision of civil and labour intensive works.	Quality Control Engineer (QCE) is the key senior consultant position will take the role of quality control and advising to management of the project. The scope of the service will include, but not limited to: Task 1: Preparation of bidding documents for all civil works including technical specifications and BOQ and supervision of infrastructure construction including any maintenance; Task 2: Managing quality of civil works carried out by contractors and labor contracting society (LCS) as per specification, design and environmental compliance by visiting sites or using other instruments and preparing inventory of all infrastructures; Task 3: Ensuring timely preparation and submission of progress reports of all civil works in the prescribed format for Ministry, ERD, IFAD, STF and other GOB agencies as and when required; Task 4: Ensuring certification of payments of all civil works in regular and random basis as per project implementation manual and guidance of Project Director; Task 5: Advising issues related to implementation and supervision of civil works, road maintenance, and ensure participation of women members in LCS of these activities to the greatest extent possible; Task 6: Advising engineering aspects of village flood protection works, and in prioritizing roads market and village for development according to project criteria; Task 7: Advising any measures required to minimize or mitigate environmental impacts in conjunction with other project staff, prepare report (process and progress) regarding engineering aspects of the project, and maintain inventory of all infrastructure maintenance; Task 8: Assisting District/ Upazilla / PMU in timely planning and completing civil works in annual work plan and budget; Task 9: Playing key role on Knowledge Management and communicating the best practice related quality control and lessoned learned to the IFAD Asia network, Newsletter of LGED and IFAD with the help of KM specialist of the project; and Task 10: Being liable to Project Director of HILIP and accomplishing any other duties assigned by him and his authorized representative.

Package No.

Position Name

No of

Post

Qualification and

Experience

Key Responsibilities

HILIP/16/SD3/02

Quality Conntrol Engineer (QCE)

The applicant should have at least Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from any reputed university. S/he should have at least 20 years of professional experience of which 5 years as quality control engineer in any institution. The incumbent should have at least 5 years’ experience as consultant in civil works especially road construction/ maintenance. The consultant should have experience in donor financing project management, preparation of operation manual, experiences in quality control, structural design, BOQ preparation, supervision of civil and labour intensive works.

Quality Control Engineer (QCE) is the key senior consultant position will take the role of quality control and advising to management of the project.

The scope of the service will include, but not limited to:

Task 1: Preparation of bidding documents for all civil works including technical specifications and BOQ and supervision of infrastructure construction including any maintenance;

Task 2: Managing quality of civil works carried out by contractors and labor contracting society (LCS) as per specification, design and environmental compliance by visiting sites or using other instruments and preparing inventory of all infrastructures;

Task 3: Ensuring timely preparation and submission of progress reports of all civil works in the prescribed format for Ministry, ERD, IFAD, STF and other GOB agencies as and when required;

Task 4: Ensuring certification of payments of all civil works in regular and random basis as per project implementation manual and guidance of Project Director;

Task 5: Advising issues related to implementation and supervision of civil works, road maintenance, and ensure participation of women members in LCS of these activities to the greatest extent possible;

Task 6: Advising engineering aspects of village flood protection works, and in prioritizing roads market and village for development according to project criteria;

Task 7: Advising any measures required to minimize or mitigate environmental impacts in conjunction with other project staff, prepare report (process and progress) regarding engineering aspects of the project, and maintain inventory of all infrastructure maintenance;

Task 8: Assisting District/ Upazilla / PMU in timely planning and completing civil works in annual work plan and budget;

Task 9: Playing key role on Knowledge Management and communicating the best practice related quality control and lessoned learned to the IFAD Asia network, Newsletter of LGED and IFAD with the help of KM specialist of the project; and

Task 10: Being liable to Project Director of HILIP and accomplishing any other duties assigned by him and his authorized representative.

The Project Director now invites eligible applicants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested applicants are invited to provide information indicating that they are qualified and competent to perform the services with a complete CV having one copy of recent passport size photograph and other details as required as per the application forms of RFA document provided by the undersigned.

Only one consultant will be selected in accordance with the PPR-2008. It is expected that the services may be commenced on March-2017 and continued till the end of project completion or June 2019 based on requirement. Interested applicants may obtain further information and collect the request for application (RFA) documents by applying to the address mentioned above during office hours up to 01/02/2017 at 5:00 PM. Expressions of interest shall be submitted by the applicants on or before 02/02/2017 at 2.00 PM in sealed envelope delivered to the undersigned and be clearly marked “Request for expression of interest for short-listing of Ouality Control Engineer.

(Gopal Chandra Sarker)

Project Director

Phone: 02 8144578

Email: gopalpdhilip@gmail.com

CC:

1. The Chief Engineer, LGED, Dhaka.

2. The Additional Chief Engineer (-----------------------), LGED, Dhaka.

3. The Unit In- Charge, MIS Unit, LGED, Dhaka: He is requested to publish the above notice in LGED website.

4. The Editor, 1)The Independent, 2) The Daily Ittefaq: He is requested to publish the above notice in his widely circulated daily newspaper in inner page for 1 day only before 17/01/2017.

5. Office Copy.