NOTICE OF EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A FIRM TO SUPERVISE THE COASTAL PROTECTION WORKS IN MITSAMIOULI
Context
In this context, the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urban Development in charge of Land Affairs and Land Transport (MATUAFTT), through the Regional Climate Resilience Project (PRRC), plans to recruit a firm to carry out a project management mission related to the supervision, control, and monitoring of coastal protection and development works, focusing on engineering and environmental and social safeguarding aspects in the city of MITSAMIOULI.
The Consultant will act as the Client's representative with respect to the construction company and will be responsible for ensuring that the works are carried out according to the APD technical documents, within the agreed timelines and budget, and fully in line with the World Bank's applicable Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) for the project.
More specifically, the mission aims to: ensure the technical quality control of all completed works, with particular attention to the specifications specific to geo-tubes and geosynthetics, which are the technological core of this project; validate all materials supplied by the company before their implementation; monitor and control the work execution schedule and alert the UGP of any risk of delay as soon as it is identified; supervise the implementation of the company's Environmental and Social Management Plan for the Project (PGES-C) and ensure compliance with the World Bank's ESS; manage the administrative and financial aspects of the work contract; and set up a system to monitor the site's morphology during the works and for six months following provisional acceptance, in accordance with the recommendations of the hydro-sedimentary modeling report APD.
The mission will also help strengthen national capacity in soft coastal engineering by including Comorian engineers in the monitoring team, who will receive effective skills transfer on the implementation and monitoring techniques of geotubes.