GUANGXI SOUTHWESTERN CITIES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE. The Government of the People's Republic of China has applied for a loan from ADB to finance the cost of the Guangxi Southwestern Cities Development Project. The loan was approved on 26 July 2010. The Executing Agency of the loan is the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Government in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Guangxi Southwestern Cities Development Project will support the urban development of three medium-sized cities in the southwestern part of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Guangxi) - Fangchenggang City, Chongzou City, and Baise City. The three project cities are strategically located at the important intersections of Guangxi's transport network. Fangchenggang City serves as a multimodal transportation hub that connects the expressway and railway with deepwater seaports. Chongzuo City is a regional logistics center in the GMS transportation corridor and facilitates international trade with GMS countries through the land ports at Guangxi's border with Viet Nam. Baise City, as a nodal city in the inter-province highway and expressway system, provides the critical link for Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to the seaports at Beibu Gulf through the transport system in Guangxi. Guangxi and the project cities are at the center of a number of regional cooperation endeavors, including GMS economic cooperation promoted by ADB, and the PRC-Association of Southeast Asian Nations free trade area. The project will have six investment components and one capacity development component that will jointly generate the following outputs: # Fangchenggang road network and related municipal infrastructure. The project will build (a) 27.6 kilometers (km) of urban roads, including a 210-meter (m) bridge; and (b) related municipal infrastructure, including water supply pipeline, drainage system, sewerage pipeline, lighting, traffic control facilities, and landscaping. # Fangchenggang coastal protection and upgrading. The project will build (a) 9.2 km of coastal dykes, (b) a 2.5-hectare (ha) public education square for mangrove protection, and (c) related auxiliary facilities. # Chongzuo road network and related municipal infrastructure. The project will build (a) 13.0 km of urban roads; and (b) related municipal infrastructure, including water supply pipeline, drainage system, sewerage pipeline, lighting, traffic control facilities, and landscaping. # Chongzuo Shuikou Lake environmental improvement. The project will (a) clear the garbage, and fish and duck farming on the lake, (b) dredge the surface area of 78 ha, (c) remove the coffer weirs that block water flow, (d) rehabilitate the lake banks, (e) build the lakeside pedestrian paths, and (f) control pollution for lakeside point and nonpoint sources. # Baise road network and related municipal infrastructure. The project will build (a) 3.7 km of urban roads; and (b) related municipal infrastructure including water supply pipeline, drainage system, sewerage pipeline, lighting, traffic control facilities, and landscaping. # Baise Longwang bridge. The project will build (a) the Longwang bridge at a length of 563 m; and (b) related municipal infrastructure including water supply pipeline, drainage system, sewerage pipeline, lighting, traffic control facilities, and landscaping. # Capacity development. The project will provide (a) technical assistance, including international experiences and best practices, to design and conduct a demand-based capacity development program for the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government (GZARG) and the project cities in the field of planning and implementation of an integrated and sustainable urban transport system; and (b) technical support, including training to GZARG and the project cities, to ensure that project implementation will fully comply with ADB policy and operational requirements. --Procurement: All procurement of goods and works will be undertaken in accordance with ADB's Procurement Guidelines. An 18-month procurement plan indicating threshold and review procedures, goods, works, and consulting service contract packages and national competitive bidding guidelines is detailed in the Project Administration Manual (PAM) which is uploaded on the ADB website. Contracts for goods estimated to exceed $1.0 million and contracts for works estimated to exceed $10.0 million will be procured using international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures. Contracts for goods and for works estimated to cost less than the above ICB threshold values, but more than $100,000 for goods and $200,000 for works, will be procured on the basis of national competitive bidding (NCB) procedures in accordance with the PRC Tendering and Bidding Law (1999), subject to modifications agreed upon with ADB. Contracts for goods estimated to cost $100,000 or less and works estimated to cost $200,000 or less will be procured using shopping procedures. For contracts to be procured through ICB procedures, procurement documents including invitation for bids, invitation for prequalification, draft prequalification documents, draft bidding documents, prequalification and bidding evaluation reports are to be submitted to ADB for prior review and approval. For contracts to be procured through NCB procedures, the first English language version of the procurement documents prepared by each of the project cities are to be submitted to ADB for prior review and approval regardless of the estimated contract amount. The ADB-approved procurement document should then be used as a model for all the subsequent NCB contracts to be funded by ADB for the component in the concerned project city under the project. ADB will review the bid evaluation report and award of contract on a post-review basis. For contracts to be procured through shopping procedures, ADB will review and approve the award of contract on a post-review basis. --Consulting Services: The Project will fund 26 person-months of international consulting services and 111 person-months of national consulting services to support the capacity development of the GZARG. The consultants will be recruited through one consulting firm to be selected in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2010, as amended from time to time), using the quality- and cost-based selection method at the quality-to-cost ratio of 80:20 with full technical proposal procedures. Interested bidders from ADB member countries who wish to obtain additional information may contact the following address below. Contact: Southwestern Cities Development Project . Ms. Yuan, Liya. Head, Project Management Office. Tel: (86-771) 232-8608. Fax: (86-771) 232-8035. E-mail: gxpmo@163.com