Gansu Revitalization and Innovation Project: Project Management Consulting Services, including socio-economic impact evaluation and beneficiary satisfaction surveys

Project ID: P158215
Borrower/Bid No: SXMB-C11

China - P158215 - Gansu Revitalization and Innovation Project - SXMB-C11

Country: China

Project Id: P158215

Project Name: Gansu Revitalization and Innovation Project

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REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

The People's Republic of China

Gansu Revitalization and Innovation Project

Loan No.: 8971-CN

Name of the Assignment: Project Management Consulting Services

Reference No.: SXMB-C11

The People's Republic of China has received financing of US$180 million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Gansu Revitalization and Innovation Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The consulting services ("the Services") include design review, procurement and contract management, socio-economic impact survey and beneficiary and/or visitor satisfaction survey, reporting and training etc. The estimate implementation duration is six years (2019- 2025). The project includes three components: Increased Access to Financial Services for MSEs, Urban-Rural Regeneration, and Institutional Strengthening and Global Knowledge Transfer, altogether about 56 contracts.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment are attached to this request for expressions of interest.

Gansu Provincial Culture and Tourism Department now invites eligible consulting firms ("Consultants") to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The short listing criteria are: the consulting firm should have successfully completed at least three similar project management consulting services contracts for the projects   financed by the IFIs in the past ten years (2009-2019), and have sufficient staff who have appropriate skills Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 (Revised November 2017 and August 2018) (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. In addition, please refer to the following specific information on conflict of interest related to this assignment:

Consultants shall not be hired for any assignment that would be in conflict with their prior or current obligations to other clients, or that may place them in a position of being unable to carry out the assignment in the best interests of the Borrower. Without limitation on the generality of the foregoing, Consultants shall not be hired under the circumstances set forth below:

a. a firm that has been engaged by the Borrower to provide Goods, Works, or Non-consulting

Services for a project (or an affiliate that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that firm), shall be disqualified from providing Consulting Services resulting from, or directly related to, those Goods, Works, or Non-consulting Services;

b. a firm that has been engaged by the Borrower to provide Consulting Services for the preparation or implementation of a project (or an affiliate that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that Consulting firm), shall be disqualified from subsequently providing Goods, Works, or Non-consulting Services resulting from, or directly related to those Consulting Services. This provision does not apply to the various firms (Consultants, contractors, or suppliers), which together are performing the contractor’s obligations under a turnkey or design and build contract;

c. neither a Consultant (including personnel and sub-consultants), nor an affiliate (that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that Consultant), shall be hired for any assignment that, by its nature, creates a conflict of interest with another assignment of the Consultant;

d. Consultants (including their experts and other personnel, and sub-consultants), that have a close business or family relationship with a professional staff of the Borrower, or of the project implementing agency, or of a recipient of a part of the Bank’s financing, or any other party representing or acting on behalf of the Borrower, that is directly or indirectly involved in any part of:

i. the preparation of the TOR for the assignment;

ii. the selection process for the contract; or

iii. the supervision of the contract, may not be awarded a contract, unless the conflict stemming from this relationship has been resolved in a manner acceptable to the Bank throughout the selection process and the execution of the contract.

Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications, but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub-consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality – and Cost - Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 09:00 to 17:00 hours.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to COC International Tendering Co., Ltd. at the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) by 5:00 pm, Oct. 10, 2019.

Gansu Provincial Culture and Tourism Department PMO

Attn: Mr. Yang yang 

Address: No.638, Donggang West Road, Chengguan District, Lanzhou ,Gansu, China.

Tel: 86-931-8411170        

E-mail: 19125338@qq.com  

COC International Tendering Co., Ltd 

Attn: Miss Xu Xie

Address: 601, B2, Au Life Mansions, 115 Qingyang Road, Chengguan District, Lanzhou ,Gansu, China.

Tel: 86-931-4807636        

Fax: 86-931-4807636 

E-mail: ramanda.xu@cocitc.com