Water Supply Improvement Project | Caribbean Development Bank

Project Name

Water Supply Improvement Project

Role/Service

Climate Risk, Vulnerability assessment and Adaptation Plan

Country

The Bahamas

Deadline

Aug 2, 2019

04:00 PM

Type

Consultancy

Overview

The Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (GOCB) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in an amount equivalent to US$28.5 million towards the cost of the Water Supply Improvement Project and intends to apply a portion of the proceeds of this financing to eligible payments under a contract for which this invitation is issued. Payments by CDB will be made only at the request of GOCB and upon approval by CDB, and will be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Financing Agreement. The Financing Agreement prohibits withdrawal from the financing account for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment or import, to the knowledge of CDB, is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. No party other than GOCB shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreement or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.

The Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC), the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure Consulting Services for a Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation (CRVAA) Plan for WSC.

The objective of this consultancy is to support the efforts of WSC in the development of a Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA) and in the formulation of an Adaptation Plan of Action responding to the vulnerabilities identified. The process for the preparation of these documents is to be participatory, with WSC leading the work, and with the active participation of key stakeholders. It will be focused on increasing the reliability and resilience of WSC’s capability to achieve its goals: the reliable provision of good quality water and wastewater services to its customers.

The consultancy is to be implemented over a period of nine (9) months.

WSC now invites interested eligible consulting firms to submit Expressions of Interest for the provision of these consultancy services.

Eligiblity

Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:

in the case of a body corporate, it is legally incorporated or otherwise organised in an eligible country, has its principal place of business in an eligible country and is more than 50 per cent beneficially owned by citizen(s) and/or bona fide resident(s) of eligible country(ies) or by a body(ies) corporate meeting these requirements;
in the case of unincorporated firms, the persons are citizens or bona fide residents of an eligible country; and
in all cases, the consultant has no arrangement and undertakes not to make any arrangements, whereby any substantial part of the net profits or other tangible benefits of the contract will accrue or be paid to a person not a citizen or bona fide resident of an eligible country.

All countries are eligible.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of CDB’s Guidelines for the Selection and Engagement of Consultants (2011), setting forth CDB’s policy on conflict of interest.

In the assessment of submissions, consideration will be given to technical competence, qualifications and experience, local and regional experience on similar assignments, financial capability and existing commitments. All information must be submitted in English. Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Instructions

Four (4) hard copies of the Expressions of Interest along with two (2) USB Flash Drives, each with a single non-editable PDF file of the complete Expression of Interest must be received at the first address below no later than 4:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 and one electronic copy must be sent simultaneously to CDB at the second address below.

The sealed envelope containing each submission should include the name and address of the applicant and shall be clearly marked “Expression of Interest – Consulting Services for Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan for WSC.”

Following the assessment of submissions, a short-list of not less than three and not more than six applicants will be provided with full terms of reference and invited to submit technical and financial proposals to undertake the assignment. GOCB reserves the right to accept or reject late applications or to cancel the present invitation partially or in its entirety. It will not be bound to assign any reason for not short-listing any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.