BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

SCALING-UP INVESTMENT IN LOW-CARBON PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROJECT

BiH10/00103203

Assignment Title: Preparation of detailed design and project oversight

Reference No.: UNDP/GCF-BiH10/00103203-RFP-CQ-CS-22-13-RS

The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology Republic of Srpska has received a

grant from the Green Climate Fund through United Nations Development Program.

The project objective is to scale-up investment in low-carbon public buildings via design and implementation of the National Framework for Low-Carbon investment in public buildings, comprising an integrated package of policy, regulatory, technological, informational, financial and managerial solutions designed to address country-specific risks and barriers to invest.

The project will provide technical assistance (TA) to public and private sector stakeholders at municipal, cantonal, entity and national level in BiH to help address non-financial barriers, and  will facilitate implementation of the National Investment Framework for Low-Carbon Public Buildings, including the required investment support to improve risk-return profiles and to bring prospective low-carbon building projects to financial close.

The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology of Republic of Srpska now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the services which will include preparation of detailed design, project oversight and workshop with journalist. Provided consultant’s satisfactory performance signed contract may be extended in terms of time and value. 

Interested Consultants shall provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.

The qualification criteria are: demonstrated relevant experience in delivery of at least one (1) assignment in last 3 years of similar nature and complexity. The reference list should contain information about the clients, assignment descriptions of relevant projects, value of the contracts and period of execution supported, and as available, signed memorandums of satisfactory performance by the beneficiary at the time of the assignment.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants [under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants] by World Bank Borrowers 2011 (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. In addition, please refer to the following specific information on conflict of interest related to this assignment: Bank policy requires that consultants provide professional, objective, and impartial advice and at all times hold the client’s interests paramount, without any consideration for future work, and that in providing advice they avoid conflicts with other assignments and their own corporate interests. Consultants shall not be hired for any assignment that would be in conflict with their prior or current obligations to other clients, or that may place them in a position of being unable to carry out the assignment in the best interest of the Borrower. Consultants may associate with other firms in the form of a joint venture to enhance their qualifications.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the CQ method set out in the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers: procurement in investment project financing goods, works, non-consulting and consulting services (dated July 2016, revised November 2017) Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 09:00 to 15:00 hours. Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, by post/courier or email) by January 19, 2023 until 14:00 hours.

For more information of the Terms of Reference is posted on website www.beep.rs.ba

The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology Republic of Srpska

Kralja Alfonsa XIII broj 18 (prvi sprat), Project Implementation Unit, 78000 Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

E-mail: beep1@mgr.vladars.net 

Ref. 15.05-360-16-1359/22 

December 29, 2022

You can download detailed TERMS OF REFERENCE for UNDP/GCF-BiH10/00103203-RFP-CQ-CS-22-13-RS – Preparation of detailed design and project oversight here.