Infrastructure Needs Project Phase II - INP II: AID-294-I-00-12-00005

Solicitation Number: RFP294-2010-108

Contract Award Number: AID-294-I-00-12-00005

Description: Construction, rehabilitation and/or improvement of infrastructure works throughout the West Bank and, if conditions permit, Gaza, that USAID may specify and describe. The scope of work may in general terms include, but not be limited to, the following:
1. Transportation networks such as primary and secondary roads, bridges and/or other transportation infrastructure;
2. Water systems including the supply, storage, treatment, transmission and/or distribution of water;
3. Sanitation infrastructure including solid waste management and disposal, wastewater treatment and reuse, pollution control, and/or ecological sanitation. This may include the design-build or only construction of new wastewater treatment plants, commissioning and start-up of the new plants, and maintenance for periods to be specified in respective RFTOPS following which the PA would take over the facilities;
4. Public Buildings including schools, clinics, health facilities, government buildings and facilities, sports facilities, warehouses, food storage facilities, youth centers, and/or other public buildings designed to benefit the public interest;
5. Electric Power sector infrastructure to include alternative, sustainable and/or traditional forms of power generation (such as wind turbines, photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, and/or fossil-fuel-fired thermal power plants), and/or electricity transmission & distribution systems in the West Bank. Work in this sector is included to anticipate possible needs, but does not represent a major work item
at this time;
6. Design and implementation of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) programs and activities for infrastructure facilities in the West Bank; this may include servicing well-pump stations and replacing/upgrading faulty equipment such as pump motors and variable frequency drives; providing critically needed maintenance to water transmission and distribution infrastructure; operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment plants and sewerage networks; developing and managing road repair units for eventual transfer to transition to the PA, and providing any other O&M support needed for eventual transfer to the Palestinian Authority, such as training and other capacity building efforts related to the O&M of facilities, in order to ensure that installed infrastructure can function reliably over its lifetime. This can include actual multi year O&M contracts for facilities in the West Bank.
7. Design-Build of facilities and infrastructure in any of the sectors contemplated in this Scope of Work.
Work may also include start-up, commissioning, operations and maintenance for eventual take over by the PA. At present this does not represent a substantial portion of the Scope of Work but is retained as an option that may be exercised in the future under the INP II based on USAID priorities and objectives. Design capability requirements and/or facilities O&M requirements will be defined in respective RFTOPS at such time as they are issued;
8. USAID may identify needed procurements to support USAID objectives which shall be conducted by INP II IQC Contractors on a competitive basis. These may include the procurement of equipment including but not limited to construction heavy equipments, electrical, mechanical and any other equipment identified at a later stage by USAID.
9. Any other infrastructure activities that may emerge to further USAID development objectives in response to the rapidly evolving political environment.

Duration: five (5) years