Philip Goldson Highway and Remate Bypass Upgrading Project and the Sixth Road (Coastal Highway Upgrading) Project

Project Name

Role/Service

Environmental Specialist

Country

Belize

Deadline

Jul 19, 2021

10:00 AM

Type

Consultancy

Overview

The Government of Belize (GOBZ) has received financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Partnership Fund (UKCIF) towards the cost of the Philip Goldson Highway and Remate Bypass Upgrading Project and the Sixth Road (Coastal Highway Upgrading) Project (the Projects) 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 GOBZ and upon approval by CDB, and will be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Financing Agreements. The Financing Agreements prohibit withdrawals from the Financing Accounts 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 GOBZ shall derive any rights from the Financing Agreements or have any claim to the proceeds of the Financing.

The Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing (MIDH) through its Project Execution Unit (PEU), the Executing Agency, now wishes to procure consultancy services for an Environmental Specialist (ES).

The objective of the consultancy is to ensure that the environmental requirements are adhered to during the construction phases of the Projects. The ES will be responsible for reviewing, managing and/or monitoring the environmental measures in the Projects’ Environmental, Social, Health and Safety Management Plans including facilitation of the client’s responsibilities under same. The duration of the assignment is expected to be for a period of 28 months.

MIDH now invites interested, eligible individual consultants and firms who wish to propose individuals for consideration to submit Expressions of Interest indicating qualifications and experience required to provide these consultancy services.

Eligiblity

Consultants shall be eligible to participate if:

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.

Eligible countries are member countries of CDB.

Interested eligible consultants are advised to review the detailed eligibility criteria detailed in Section 4 and conflict of interest provisions in Section 5 is drawn to of the Procurement Procedures for Projects Financed by CDB (January 2021) as published on CDB’s website.

The ES is required to possess the following minimum qualifications and experience:

A Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering/ Environmental Sciences / Environmental Studies or related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ demonstrated experience in environmental management and environmental sustainability and supervision of environmental aspects of infrastructure projects.

In the assessment of submissions, consideration will only be given to qualifications and experience of the individual on similar assignments, and not on the corporate experience of the firm.

Instructions

Expressions of interest must be submitted in English, electronically, by email, in pdf format, to both addresses below no later than 10:00am local time on Monday 19 July 2021. The email subject line should state “Expression of Interest - Consultancy Services for Environmental Specialist” and the email body must state the name and address of the applicant. The Expression of Interest will be deemed to have been received at the time that it is received by the receiving office named in the first address below. The burden of proving receipt of the e-mail will be on the applicant and will not be met solely by a read receipt or sent items report generated by the applicant’s computer.

Following the assessment of submissions, the individual with the most technically capable and appropriately experienced applicant will be invited to negotiate a contract to provide the consultancy services. The GOBZ 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 engaging the services of any applicant and will not defray any costs incurred by any applicant in the preparation and submission of Expressions of Interest.

Further information may be obtained from the first address below between 8:00am and 5:00pm local time Monday to Friday.

Contact

Address 1

Attention: Mr. Evondale Moody

+ 501-828-5220

+ 501 822-0563

peu@midh.gov.bz

Address 2

Procurement Policy Unit

+1 246 539 1600

procurement@caribank.org

Procurement Notice