FEDERAL MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT has floated a tender for Consulting Services, Water Sector Programme. The project location is Germany and the tender is closing on 12 Mar 2021. The tender notice number is BMZ201366467/KfW506203, while the TOT Ref Number is 50091724. Bidders can have further information about the Tender and can request the complete Tender document by Registering on the site.

Expired Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Germany

Summary : Consulting Services, Water Sector Programme

Deadline : 12 Mar 2021

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 50091724

Document Ref. No. : BMZ201366467/KfW506203

Competition : ICB

Financier : KFW Bankengruppe (German Development Bank)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : FEDERAL MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Postfach 12 03 22 53045 Bonn Tel: +49 / (0)228 / 9 95 35-0 Fax: +49 / (0)228 / 9 95 35-35 00
Germany
Email :info@bmz.bund.de

Tender Details

Prequalifications are invited for Consulting Services, Water Sector Programme.

Consulting Services, Water Sector Programme

Prequalification

Feb 10, 2021

· Country Albania

· Deadline Mar 12, 2021

· Financing KfW Entwicklungsbank

· Reference Number BMZ201366467/KfW506203

· Subject Water Sector Performance and Investment Programme (WPIP)/ Municipal Infrastructure Programme V (MIP V)

Programme:

Based on the National Albanian Master Plan for Water Supply and Sewerage, the Government of Albania (GoA) and KfW have identified priority investments in 7 of the 15 largest water utilities of Albania, namely in Berat and Kuçova (one joint utility), Elbasan, Fier, Kamza, Lezha, Shkodra and Vlora. In addition, the level of performance and institutional capacity was assessed for each location.
Based on these findings, Feasibility Studies (FS), Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) have been prepared and for some of these locations optional implementation services (detailed designs, tender documents, and assistance to the tendering process as well as supervision) have been contracted.

Requested Services:

The Programme Coordination Unit (PCU) is seeking to engage a qualified Institutional Consultant to perform the following services:

1) Different short term assistance to AKUM to strengthen the capacity of AKUM and its Programme Management Unit (PMU), comprising issues such as management of sector funds in compliance with EU guidelines, IT management capacities, quality control, financial control procedures, monitoring quality of utility data, and enhancement of human capacities.

2) Continuous support to AKUM to (i) review and aggregate reports of the different WPIP Implementation Consultants, and (ii) to contribute to the sector policy discussion.

3) Medium term technical assistance to the water utilities as Project Execution Agencies (PEAs), to support their capacity development and the achievement of performance requirements of the WPIP.

4) Technical assistance and capacity building to UK Lezha and the municipality of Lezha to increase the resilience of the city of Lezha to floods.

5) Management of funds, procurement of services and provision of support to AKUM for the coordination (i) with sector stakeholders for additional activities aiming at strengthening of the institutional framework at national level and harmonised planning processes in complementarity to other donors- capacity building actions; (ii) with donors, PEAs and WPIP Implementation Consultants for a specific component which will cover the communication and visibility measures required under the IPA II action “Albania - EU for a cleaner environment”.

Documents

 Tender Notice