Ministry of Environment

Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project (CSLEP)

IDA Credit number 6433-KH

Project ID: P165344

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Consulting Firm)

Assignment Title:                  Consultancy for Design and Supervision of Civil Works in the CMTS Landscape

Reference Number:               MOE-CS-33R-QBS-CSLEP

Procurement Method:           Quality Based Selection (QBS)

I. Background

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has received Loan from the World Bank IDA No.6433-KH toward the cost of Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project (CSLEP), and become effective on October 17, 2019. The project closing date in December 31, 2025. If will be implemented by the Royal Government Cambodia, Ministry of Environment (MOE) as Executing agency (EA) and as the implementing agency (IA) with the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD).

II. Objective of Consultancy Assignment

The primary objective of this assignment is to provide technical support to Ministry of Environment and Provincial Departments of Environment to conduct assessment surveys, feasibility studies, taking into consideration on avoiding/minimizing environmental and social impacts, preliminary and detailed engineering designs for resilient to climate and cost-effective structures for ranger stations, CBET centers, and relevant infrastructure works to promote ecotourism and CBET along with user-friendly operational and maintenance manual.

III. Qualifications and Experiences for the Firm

A. The Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required for the Design Services:

• The design firm should have at least 10 years experiences in conducting similar civil works design in developing countries or in the region.
• The design firm must have very good past performance records.
• The design firm should have experience in producing at least 10 project design drawings. And this design firm should also have experience in conducting and repairing the report of Social and Environmental Safeguard Assessment.
• The design firm have experiences working with financial support partner such as ADB or World Bank would be an asset.
• The design firm experienced in infrastructure works for ecotourism promotion would be an asset.   B. The Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required for the supervision firm:
• The supervision firm should have experience in supervising the quality of construction with similar project which costs at least 1 million US dollars.
• The supervision firm should have an outstanding record of two successful projects within last five years.
• The supervision firm have experiences working with financial support partner such as ADB or World Bank would be an asset.
• The supervision firm should have experience in conducting and preparing the report of Social and Environmental Safeguard Assessment.

IV. How to Apply

The consulting firm will be selected in accordance with the Quality Based Selection (QBS) method set out the World Bank Procurement Regulation for Investment Project Financing (IPF) Borrowers, dated July 1, 2012, revised November 2017 and August 2018, and provisions stipulated in the financing agreement in consistency with the RGC’s Updated Standard Operating Procedures on Procurement for All Externally Financed Projects/Programs in Cambodia, promulgated through Sub-decree 181, dated December 02, 2019. Only eligible and qualified individual consultant will be invited to respond to request for proposals.

Interested consultant may obtain copies of the detailed Term of Reference (TOR) in English for the assignment from the address, email, linked or QR code below during office hours from 7:30AM to 11:30PM and from 1:30PM to 5:30PM, Monday through Friday, except public holiday, Expression of Interest must be submitted to the address below by email or hard copy, no later than May 31, 2022 before 5:30PM.

Address:     Ministry of Environment, Project Implementation Unit,

Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project (CSLEP),

5th Floor, Morodok Techo Building (Lot 503), Tonle Bassac,

Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Email:   [email protected] cc:[email protected] ; [email protected] 

Linked: https://rb.gy/scuyhf