REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION-QCBS)

REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, URBANISATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE (MOEUCC)

GENERAL DIRECTORATE of CONSTRUCTION AFFAIRS (GDCA)

SEISMIC RESILIENCE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROJECT 

CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR STRUCTURAL FEASIBILITY, ENERGY AUDIT, STRUCTURAL - ENERGY RETROFITTING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION

Reference No:

(WB/CS-DESSUP-01)

This request for expressions of interest follows the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in UNDB with reference no WB P770739-06/21.

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Seismic Resilience and Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings Project (SREEPB) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

The General Directorate of Construction Affairs (“GDCA”) of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change (MoEUCC) serves as the main implementing agency for the Project. A project implementation unit (PIU) has been established under GDCA to manage the activities related to the Project. The project investments will focus primarily to improve the disaster resilience and energy savings in selected central government buildings, and to strengthen the policy framework and institutional capacity to develop, finance and implement resilient and sustainable public buildings in Turkey.

Under this assignment, selected public buildings will be structurally strengthened and renovated. The Project will also seek to ensure highest energy efficiency performance of the renovated buildings. Following table indicates the tasks to be provided under the scope of the consulting services (“the Services”).

Table 1: The Consultant’s Services

Under the WB/CS-DESSUP-01 contract package above-mentioned tasks will be undertaken for eleven (11) campuses in various cities, which having a closed area as 236.132,98 m². The building list can be seen in the Terms of Reference document.

The estimated duration for the Services listed in Table 1 is envisaged as 38 months in total (12 months for the Structural Feasibility, Energy Audit and Design Phase Services, (tasks (i) to (v)), 14 months for the Construction Supervision Phase Services (task (vi)) and 12 months for the Defects Notification Period (tasks (vii) to (viii))).

The detailed Terms of References (TORs) for the Services can be found at the following web page address: https://kamuguclendirme.csb.gov.tr/

The General Directorate of Construction Affairs (GDCA) now invites eligible consulting firms 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 selection criteria for the short-listing are:

• The Consultants should be in the consulting business for not less than the last 10 years prior to deadline for submission of interests
• The Consultants should have at least 5 years of similar experience prior to deadline for submission of interests in the Services listed in Table 1,
• The Consultants should demonstrate sound administrative and financial capacity
• The Consultants should demonstrate availability of the key experts for the performance of the services described in the TOR;

Note: Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.

Interested consulting firms are also encouraged to provide the below list:

• Company information: name, status, address, telephone number, facsimile number, year of establishment, contact person for the project, turnover for the previous 5 (five) years (2016-2017-2018-2019-2020), number of permanent staff and part-timers, fields of expertise, brief description of ongoing assignments;
• Details of most relevant ten (10) projects undertaken for the past ten years, including value of consulting services and value of works, closed area, location, number of staff involved in the contract, name of the Client, name of partners for contract execution and share of services, source of financing, type of services provided, contract commencement and completion dates, brief description of the contract;

(It is kindly requested from the interested firms to provide the information above with an excel sheet given in the https://kamuguclendirme.csb.gov.tr/)

Note: GDCA reserves sole right to request Consultant for verification of any submitted document/information in accordance with the applicable Law.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to the Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” November 2020 and The Bank's ‘Guidelines on Preventing and Combating Fraud and Corruption in Projects Financed by IBRD Loans and IDA Credits and Grants,’ (revised as of July 01, 2016) (‘Anticorruption Guidelines’).

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 should have a legal entity and shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected. Interested consultants should clearly indicate the structure of their “association” and the duties of the partners and sub-consultants in their application. Unclear expression of interests in terms of “in association with” and/or “in affiliation with” and etc. may not be considered for short listing. Keeping one expression of interest per firm as principle, a consultant firm may decide whether it wishes to participate as a sub-consultant or as a single consultant or as a partner in a joint venture (JV). Please note that a firm shall submit only one EOI in the same selection process either individually as a single consultant or as a partner in a joint venture. No firm can be a sub-consultant while submitting an EOI individually or as a partner of a joint venture in the same selection process. A firm, if acting in the capacity of sub consultant in any consultant or JV, may participate in more than one consultant, but only in the capacity of a sub-consultant.

If the same firm is considered for inclusion in the short lists of concurrent assignments, the Borrower shall assess the firm’s overall capacity to perform multiple contracts before including it in more than one short list. In addition, the Borrower shall assess the performance of the consultants who are/were executing/executed similar assignments to the Client before including them in the short list. In the short listing assessment, the Borrower at its discretion, may give preference to the eligible consultants who has not been awarded contract under the subject Project but is found to be fully qualified and has capacity to perform the required services.

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 from 10.00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Turkey Local-Time).

Expressions of interest to be clearly marked “STRUCTURAL FEASIBILITY, ENERGY AUDIT, STRUCTURAL - ENERGY RETROFITTING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION (WB/CS-DESSUP-01)” must be delivered in a written form to the address below in person or by e-mail or courier by indicating the title and the reference code by February 8, 2022 till 4:00 p.m. (Turkey Local-Time).  

Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change

General Directorate of Construction Affairs

External Investments Department

Attn: Esra Turan Tombak (Project Director)

Mustafa Kemal Mahallesi, 2082. Cadde, No:52, 06510

Çankaya / ANKARA

Tel: 0312 480 07 50

E-mail: [email protected]  

web-site: https://kamuguclendirme.csb.gov.tr