Procurement Summary
Country: Bangladesh
Summary: Institutional and Financial Performance Assessment of Regional Urban Centers in Bangladesh
Deadline: 06 Nov 2025
Posting Date: 28 Oct 2025
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 129016556
Document Ref. No.: 0002019115
Competition: ICB
Financier: World Bank (WB)
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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TheGovernment of Bangladesh (GoB) through the Department of Public HealthEngineering (DPHE) has been implementing the Bangladesh Municipal Water Supplyand Sanitation Project (BMWSSP) for the provision of safe and sustainable watersupply and sanitation services (WSS) in 30 municipalities. Financed by theWorld Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the project hasinvested in institutional strengthening and capacity building for DPHE and themunicipalities, construction and operation of water supply infrastructure, including bulk water and treatment, and piped water distribution network;provision of fecal sludge treatment facilities, household and public toilets;and critical drainage infrastructure in these municipalities. Among the notable achievements of the project havebeen the engagement of private operators to provide day-to-day operations andmaintenance of the water supply services, public toilets, and fecal sludge managementfacilities to ensure efficient services and financial sustainability. Inaddition, the project provided a launching pad for scaling up access to sustainableWSS services in medium to large citiesthrough the adoption of: (i) model by-laws for planning and provision of WSSservices by urban local governments including setting of cost-recovery tariffs;(ii) ring-fencing WSS accounts, implementation of WSS accounting software, billing, and internet/mobile phone payment interfaces; and (iii) creation ofthe DPHE-s Municipal Support Circle (MSC) to provide support to allmunicipalities for capacity building, planning new capital investments, andstrengthening operations and maintenance of existing WSS schemes. Havingcreated this support structure, the GoB intends to focus on improving access toquality and sustainable WSS services in 8 additional cities of regionaleconomic importance. These include:a) Four City Corporations[1]: Cumilla, Mymensingh, Rangpur and Bogura; b) Three district-levelmunicipalities: Dinajpur, Jhenaidah andJashore; and c) ...
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Tender Notice
ToR-Institutional-Performance-Assessment-of-CCs-and-Municipalities-10232025.docx