Romania Safer, Inclusive and Sustainable Schools (Румыния - Тендер #46455127)

• Project ID

P175308

• Project Title

Romania Safer, Inclusive and Sustainable Schools

• Country

Romania

• Notice No

OP00249136

• Notice Type

Request for Expression of Interest

• Notice Status

Published

• Borrower Bid Reference

RO-ME-SUNRPMU-382883-CS-QCBS

• Procurement Method

Quality And Cost-Based Selection

• Language of Notice

English

• Submission Deadline Date/Time

Oct 27, 2023 14:00

• Published Date

Sep 25, 2023

• CONTACT INFORMATION
• Organization/Department

ME-SUNMPMU

• Name

Oana Cozma

• Address

12, Spiru Haret Street, 2nd floor, sector 1, Bucharest

• City

• Province/State

Romania

• Postal Code

• Country

Romania

• Phone

+ +40 21 310 22 07

• Email

office@umpmrsu.ro

• Website

https://umpmrsu.ro/sissp/achizitii/

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACTION PLAN FOR 10-YEAR PERIOD FOR INTEGRATED INVESTMENTS IN RESILIENT AND MODERN SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE)

COUNTRY: Romania

NAME OF PROJECT: Safer, Inclusive and Sustainable Schools Project

Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.9236-RO

Assignment Title: Consulting Services for Technical Assistance to support the development of an action plan for 10-year period for integrated investments in resilient and modern school infrastructure.

The Government of Romania has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Safer, Inclusive and Sustainable Schools Project (SISS Project) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services for Technical Assistance to support the development of an action plan for 10-year period for integrated investments in resilient and modern school infrastructure.

The SISS Project objectives are to improve the resilience, energy efficiency and learning environment of selected Project schools, and to increase institutional capacity for integrated investments in schools in Romania.

The consulting services (“the Services”) include development of an action plan for a 10-year period for integrated investments in resilient and modern school infrastructure, covering all types of schools in pre-university education, starting from kindergarten to high schools.

The action plan will capture needed investments for integrated retrofitting/rehabilitation, and reconstruction of schools, and other activities such as training/outreach to municipalities on the use of models/guidelines developed under the Project, facilitation the establishment of a network of schools, etc. The preparation of the action plan will require data collection on the seismic safety and energy efficiency of school buildings across Romania and the investment planning to reduce the energy intensity through efficiency measures and renewable energy options. Resilience of schools to climate disasters will be a key consideration in the action plan, as well as the potential for schools to be designated disaster shelters.

The Consultant will provide the services and the documents and reports described in Terms of Reference, available at https://umpmrsu.ro/sissp/achizitii/

The services are estimated to be performed in 42 months, but no longer than December 2024.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment are attached to this request for expressions of interest.

The Ministry of Education, through the School and University Network Modernization Project Management Unit (SUNMPMU) now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are:

• Strong and solid experience in investment planning.
• The firm should have completed at least two similar assignments at the national, regional, or local level.
• Proven capacity to manage large research projects at national or international level (at least 2 projects).
• Proven capacity to mobilize large teams of experts in different fields to ensure the necessary resources for all the activities.
• Administrative and professional capacity to coordinate activity and supervise/ monitor many different types of professionals.
• Availability of Core Personnel to execute the project.

Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.

Interested consulting firms must provide and certify the following information, indicating the extent to which they are qualified to provide these services:

• copy of the tax registration certificate, tax code, and copy of the registration certificate at the Trade Register Office;
• ascertaining certificate issued by the Trade Register Office/operation authorization/other equivalents proving the form of registration and the fact that the consultant has the main or secondary field of activity registered in the ONRC certificate (authorized CAEN codes) that corresponds to this procedure;
• portfolio of similar projects, including references, ascertaining document regarding the fulfillment of contractual obligations, acceptance report, other relevant documents in support of the requirement;
• audited financial statements or, if not required by the law of the Bidder’s country, other financial statements acceptable to the Purchaser, for the last 3 years (i.e. 2020, 2021, 2022) prior to bid submission deadline, demonstrating the current soundness of the Bidder’s financial position;
• list of key specialized personnel

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” November 2020 edition (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub-consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality And Cost-Based method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours Monday – Thursday from 8:30 to 16:30 hours and Friday from 08:30 – 14:00 hours.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) by 27th of October 2023, 14:00 local time.

Ministry of Education - School and University Network Modernization Project Management Unit

Attn: Mirela – Otilia DÎRSTARU, Project Director, Oana Cozma – procurement specialist

Spiru Haret 12, 2nd floor, Postal code: 010176, Bucharest, sector 1, Romania

Tel: +40 21 310 22 07, Fax: +40 21 310 22 08

E-mail: office@umpmrsu.ro

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