Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar

Dhaka-1207.

Memo No. LGED/PD/BTTSRP/C-01/232 Date : 13/04/2014

BANGLADESH

BANGLADESH TRADE AND TRANSPORT STUDIES RETF PROJECT

Grant No.: TF016418

Assignment Title: Feasibility, Detail Survey and Design of Chittagong Hill Tract Connectivity connecting NE border area.

Reference No. : MOS-S4

Request for Expressions of Interest (EoI) for Screening and Feasibility Study of route options connecting Chittagong, Bangladesh and NE India, and Survey, Detail design of a road connecting Thegamukh and highway to Chittagong under Bangladesh Trade and Transport Studies RETF Project(BTTSRP)

The Government of Bangladesh has received a grant from the World Bank toward the cost of the Bangladesh Trade and Transport Studies RETF Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services includes assessment of possible land and multi model links for road and inland waterways to establish transport connectivity between Chittagong Port, Chittagong Hill Tracts Districts, and NE border area. The consultant is required to conduct necessary preliminary technical, economic, environmental, and social assessment for screening to identify the best possible routes, conduct feasibility study of at least two routes, and further conduct detail survey and design of selected road links in Chittagong Hill Tract Area. The services will be conducted in two parts as a) Screening and Feasibility study combination of multimodal waterways and road links (screening of about 8 routes and feasibility study of about at least 2 routes), and b) Detail survey and design of about 120 km road. Expected time for completion of services for each part is about 5 months.

The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) now invites eligible consultants to express their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments in hand, experiences in similar and other projects, experience in IDA assisted similar project, availability of appropriate skills among payroll staff etc.). Consultants/consortium only from eligible source countries as defined in the Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, may submit their Expressions of Interest. The indicative commencement of consultancy services is September 2014 and will be ended in December 2015.

A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, May 2004 (revised October 2006, May 2010 and January 2011). The EOIs would be reviewed on the basis of the following:

a) Age of business of consultant (firm)

b) Availability of key professional staff members of the firm (list of management and key personnel), indication whether the staff is a member of the firm or an independent consultant, and the number of years spent working for the firm.

c) Turnover of the consultant

d) Experience of the consultant in similar field.

e) Experience of the consultant in other works/assignments for hill roads

f) Support service of the consultant

Consultants (firms) may associate to enhance their qualifications, but should mention whether the association is in the form of a ''Joint-Venture'' or of ''Sub-Consultancy''. In the case of a joint venture, all members of such ''association'' should have real and well-defined inputs to the assignment and it is preferable to limit the total number of firms including the associates to a maximum of four.

Information on all the firms should be provided in case of joint venture/consortium. The name of the assignment “Screening and Feasibility Study of route options connecting Chittagong, Bangladesh and NE India, and Survey, Detail design of a road connecting Thegamukh and highway to Chittagong under Bangladesh Trade and Transport Studies RETF Project(BTTSRP) ” should be mentioned clearly on the cover page of EOI along with the name of the contract package (Contract Package No.MOS – S4) for which the EoI is submitted. Interested consultants may also submit EOI through email and mention “Screening and Feasibility Study of route options connecting Chittagong, Bangladesh and NE border area, and Survey, Detail design of a road connecting Thegamukh and highway to Chittagong under Bangladesh Trade and Transport Studies RETF Project(BTTSRP) ” in the subject line.

Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time. EOI must be sent to the address below by 06 May, 2014 up to 05:00 p.m. local time.

( Momin Mozibul Haque Shamaji )

Project Director

Bangladesh Trade and Transport Studies RETF Project

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
Agargaon, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh.
Tel : +880-2-8115465, +880-2-9122435, Fax : +880-2-9126165, E-mail :pd.ttsp@lged.gov.bd

Copy forwarded for information and wide publicity:

01. First Secretary (Admin), Australian High Commission, 184, Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka. Phone : 8823049, 8813101-5

02. Commercial Officer, Overseas Trade Services, British High Commission, United Nations Road, Baridhara, Dhaka. Phone : 8822705-9

03. Second Secretary, Canadian High Commission, House # 16A, Road # 48, Gulshan-2, Dhaka.

Phone : 8823639

04. Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Plot # 2 & 4, Road # 3, Block-1, Baridhara, Dhaka.

05. First Secretary, Royal Danish Embassy, House # 1, Road # 51, Gulshan, Dhaka. Phone : 8821799 & 8822499

06. Embassy of the Republic of France, House # 18, Road # 108, Gulshan, Dhaka.

07. Economic Counselor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Roseland, 178, Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka. Phone : 8824735

08. Counselor (C), High Commission of India, House # 120, Road # 2, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka. Phone : 8613204

09. Embassy of Italy, Plot # 2 & 3, Road # 74/79, Gulshan Model Town, Dhaka. Phone : 8822781-3

10. Second Secretary (Economic), Embassy of Japan, Plot # 5 & 7 Dutabash Road, Baridhara, Dhaka. Phone : 8810087

11. Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, House # 5/A, Road #. 54, Gulshan-2, Dhaka.

12. First Secretary, Royal Netherlands Embassy, House # 49, Road # 90, Gulshan, Dhaka. Phone : 8822715-17

13. High Commission for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, House # NE(C)-2, Road # 71, Gulshan, Dhaka.

14. Democratic Socialist Republic of Srilanka, House # 15, Road # 50, Gulshan, Dhaka.

15. Embassy of Sweden, House # 1, Road # 51, Gulshan-2, Dhaka. Phone : 8824761-64

16. Embassy of Switzerland, House # 31/B, Road # 18, Banani, Dhaka.

17. Embassy of the United States of America, Madani Avenue, Baridhara, Dhaka. Phone : 8824700-22

18. Director General, CPTU, IMED, Planning Commission, Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, he is requested to publish the notice into CPTU website.

19. Chief Engineer, Roads and Highway Department, Sharak Bhaban, Ramna, Dhaka.

20. Chief Engineer, LGED, Dhaka.

21. Additional Chief Engineer (Planning/Implementation/Maintenance/Urban Management), LGED, Dhaka.

22. Senior Assistant Secretary (Dev), Local Government Division, Dhaka.

23. Mr. Md. Ahsan Habib, Unit-in-charge, GIS Unit, LGED, he is requested to publish the notice in LGED website.

24. The Manager (Advertisement), The Daily Star / The Daily Ittefaque, he is requested to publish the attached notice once in his daily on or before 6 April 2014 and submit 05 (five) copies of the same.

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