BiH Water and Sanitation Services Modernization Project

Project: P168943 - BiH Water and Sanitation Services Modernization Project Financing: World Bank GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE Bosnia and Herzegovina Water and Sanitation Services Modernization Project GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE Loan No.: 93020-BA Project ID No.: P168943 The Borrower, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has received financing in the amount of USD 60,900,000.00 from the World Bank and grant in the amount of USD 7,000,000.00 from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, toward the cost of the Water and Sanitation Services Modernization Project , and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services to be procured under this project. The project will include the following components: Component 1: Improving the institutional capacity for sector modernization. This component will finance activities to strengthen policies and regulatory frameworks and institutional capacity to advance sector reform and promote sustainable service delivery. This is particularly related to support on preparation and thereafter implementation of the Government’s Water Sector Modernization Concept that should include a clear action plan for the government to proceed with needed actions in order to strength institutional capacity for improved service delivery. Component 2: Supporting improved governance and capacity of the water services sector at the local level. This component targets the strengthening of the local Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) service delivery framework and its alignments with the institutional and regulatory framework that will be set at entity level to maximize the impact of the reform process. Component 3: Improving access to safely managed WSS services and the efficiency of WSS service providers. Financing under this component would include two categories: (a) performance and efficiency improvements including, but not limited to, the implementation of nonrevenue water reduction, energy efficiency programs, and improvements in metering and commercial systems (which should accrue to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions); and (b) construct, upgrade, modernize and improve WSS services and infrastructure, including water treatment and distribution facilities and wastewater collection and treatment facilities as well as technical assistance needed to improve performance of selected WUs. All these activities will increase the reliability and quality of water supply, thereby making the targeted communities more resilient to climate-change-exacerbated drought or flood risks. Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (July 2016, revised November 2017, and August 2018). (Procurement Regulations) and is open to all eligible firms and individuals as defined in the Procurement Regulations . After project negotiations, the World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection. Specific procurement notices for contracts subject to open international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business online, on the World Bank’s external website and the PIU’s (the Purchasing Agency of the Ministries) free-access website. Interested eligible firms and individuals who would wish to be considered for the provision of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services for the above-mentioned project, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the addresses below: The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republika Srpska / Agriculture Projects Coordination Unit (APCU) Ms. Darija Kozar Trg Republike Srpske 1 Building A, 8th floor, office no. 31a 78000 Banja Luka, Republika Srpska Bosnia and Herzegovina Phone: ++387 51 338367 E-mail: d.kozar@mps.vladars.rs and Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry / Project Implementation Unit (PIU) Attn.: Ms. Sukavata Bejdic Hamdije Čemerlića 2 str, floor xx, office no. xx 71000 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Phone: ++387 33 726 635 E-mail: sukavata.bejdic@fmpvs.gov.ba