Water Supply and Sanitation Study — Southern Sudan Project

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE Country: Southern Sudan Name of Project: Water Supply and Sanitation Project MDTF TF No.: TF096197 Project ID No. P111061 The Government of Southern Sudan has secured financing for the Water Supply and Sanitation Project in the amount of US$ 30 million equivalent from the Multi Donor Trust Fund administered by World Bank. The Ministry therefore intends to apply part of the proceeds to pay for goods, works, consulting and related services to be procured under this project.

The project includes following Components: Component 1: Water Supply and Sanitation Works. This component will finance drilling of new boreholes, installation of hand pumps, rehabilitation and repair of existing boreholes, springprotection, hand dug wells, construction of hafirs and water barriersand water distribution system with treatment facilities. Also, the provision of public latrines in schools and health centers, construction/ fencing of oxidation ponds, construction / rehabilitation of State Directorate offices including construction of water quality testing laboratories, rehabilitation of Amadi Development Institute and construction of warehouses are included in this component.

Component 2: Water Supply and Sanitation Goods: This component will finance procurement and supply of supply of office furniture, supply and installation of V-Sats, computers, copiers, printers, generators, water testing kits, procurement of motorcycles, cars and pickup trucks. It also includes procurement of vacuum tankers with accessories and spare-parts, supply of backhoe and supply of fastwearing out spare parts for hand pumps. Component 3: Te chnical assistance to support the Project Management Team (PMT) Consultancy : Through this component, technical assistance (TA) will be procured to support the project management team (PMT).

Additionally, separate TAwill be procured to support in training/identification and supervision of resource persons who will train Community Water Committees; reviewing final project development of sanitation strategy, assist in the inventory of existing water points. Also, TA to implement Feasibility Studies and Design of Water Supply and Sanitation Systems for 7 State Capitals; in addition to TA for implementing the water resources information system (including the assessment of existing groundwater, surface water resources and water use studies) are to be procured.

Procurement of goods, works and services will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank's Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits (current edition), and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the guidelines. Consulting services will be selected in accordance with the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (current edition). Specific procurement notices for contracts to be bid under the World Bank's international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures and for contracts for consultancy services will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business and dgMarket, and in regional and local newspapers in Sudan.

Eng. Isaac Liabwel Undersecretary, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Juba, Southern Sudan. E-mail: isaac.liabwel@gmail.com Tel.: +249-811823557/912328686/955022297