CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR CONSULTANCY SUPPORT
BRAZIL – Ministry of Cities
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture – IICA
Federal Integrated Water Sector Project - INTERÁGUAS
Loan Agreement No. 8074-BR – World Bank
The Federative Republic of Brazil has negotiated a loan agreement with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to carry out the Federal Integrated Water Sector Project – INTERÁGUAS. Part of the loan is intended to cover investments in the following consultancy support:Rendering Technical Assistance, Elaborating Studies and Providing Technical Capacitation in Regulation and Inspection of Basic Sanitation Services.
The consultancy’s aim is contributing to the National regulatory procedures improvement, by sharing knowledge, taking actions to improve governance, implementing methodologies, planning, equipping entities responsible for regulation and qualifying technical framework. These actions are expected to contribute to the regulation improvement and, as a consequence, to upgrade the management and quality of the public services. The consultancy support must follow the regulation objectives established by the Law No. 11.445/2007 and the Decree No. 7.217/2010, and may explore the following recommended themes, without prejudice to the inclusion of other themes: legal framework; regulatory norms and instruments; regulatory pattern; governance and transparency; social control methods; regulatory planning; methodologies; institutionalization of routine activities; regulatory accounting; technical framework qualification; economic-financial evaluation of service provision; parameters setting; rate and subsidies evaluation; service quality evaluation; information system; certifying SNIS (National Information System on Sanitation) information and incentivizing the sharing of well succeeded experiences.
The effectiveness deadline for the consultancy support is eighteen (18) months from the Service Order issuance.
The National Secretariat of Environmental Sanitation from the Ministry of Cities, through the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture – IICA, calls for companies or consortia able to express interest in executing the service. The consortia have to specifyits leading company. Providing information that demonstrates appropriate qualification and relevant experience is a must, such as: the company’s portfolio, a detailed list of similar concluded contracts; the contractor manager’s name and e-mail from each similar contract carried out. To compile the short list, it will be taken into account similar provided services and experience in similar works.
The expression of interest does not mean any commitment to sign a contract. The selection will be made as determined by the Quality and Cost-Based Selection Method established by the World Bank Directions: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, published in May 2004 and revised in October 2006 and May 2010.
Applications should be submitted by post or in person to the address listed below, in a sealed envelope containing a Portfolio, until May 25, 2015.
Identification: Expression of Interest in Rendering Technical Assistance, Elaborating Studies and Providing Technical Capacitation in Regulation and Inspection of Basic Sanitation Services.
Addressee: Contracts and Acquisition Department
IICA Representative in Brazil
Address: SHIS QI 5, chácara 16 – Lago Sul
CEP: 71600-500 Brasília - DF
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