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Consultancy service to carry out household and community survey in the Ribb and Megech irrigation command and in adjacent areas

Contract Award

General Information
Country:   Ethiopia
City/Locality:   Addis Ababa
Notice/Contract Number:   Consultancy service to carry out household and community survey in the Ribb and Megech irrigation command and in adjacent areas
Publication Date:   Jul 12, 2010
Funding Agency:   World Bank
Buyer:   ET-Irrigation & Drainage SIL (FY07)
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   Hayalsew Yilma W
National Project Coordinator
Ministry of Water Resources
Ministry of Water Resources P.O.Box 5744, Haile G/Silase St (Room No. 402) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Telephone: 251-11-6638506
Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa 5744
Ethiopia
Telephone:   251-11-6638506
Fax:   +251-116-636909
Email:   Click here

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Disclosure Report for Contract Awarded by QCBS

Ethiopian Nile Irrigation and Drainage Project
(World Bank financed)
Consultancy service to carry out household and community survey in the Ribb and Megech irrigation command and in adjacent areas

Name of project: Ethiopian Nile Irrigation and Drainage Project, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Project ID: PO92353
Client: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ministry of Water Resources

The Expression of Interest for this consultancy was advertised on dg market and UNDB online web sites on September 21, 2009 and on the daily Ethiopian Herald September 26, 2009 issue.

a) The following consulting firms were short listed and were requested to submit proposals:-
1. ORGUT consulting (Sweden)
Svartmangatan 9,111 29 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone +46-8-406–7620
Fax +46-8-21-02–69
E-mail hq@orgut.se
www. orgut.se
Agent in Ethiopia,
ORGUT in Ethiopia
Africa avenue,Jambo Galaxy building
P.O.Box 33127
Phone: +251 1 663 37 85
Fax: +251 1 663 055 1
Addis Ababa

2. WABEKBON Development Consults PLC (Ethiopia)
Bole Tele Road, Deker inn building, 2nd floor
Tel. 0116-63 95 75 mobile 0911-21 12 58
Fax 011-663-95 75
E-mail: wibdconsult@ethionet.et
Addis Ababa

3. Wardell Armstrong Engineering & Environmental Solution (United Kingdom)
Sir Henry Dolton House Forge Lane, Etruria, Stoke-On-Trent
Staffordshire St1 5bd
United Kingdom
Phone +44 (0)845 111 7777
Fax +44 (0)0845 111 8888
E-Mail kdsouza@wardell-armstrong.com
www.wardell-armstrong-com

4. Kimetrica Internaternational limited (USA)
Home office: 2020 pennsylvania Ave, NW # 715
Washington, DC 20006
Phone +1 202 470 6974
Fax +1 202 280 1272
www.kimetrica.org

5. Generation Integrated Rural Development Consultant (Ethiopia)
Comet Building(5th floor)
H/Gebreselassie Road
P.O.Box 322 Code 1250
Tel. +251(0) 116 63 15 90/91
E-mail girudco@ethionet.et

b) Proposals were received from the following 2 short-listed consultants:-

1. ORGUT Consulting AB (Sweden) in association with Haddis Consult (Ethiopia)
2. WABEKBON Development Consultants PLC (Ethiopia)

c) The technical points assigned to each consultant were as follows:-
1. ORGUT Consulting AB (Sweden) 80.19%
2. WABEKBON Development Consultants PLC (Ethiopia) 72.08%

d) The firms who scored 70% and above selected and their financial proposals were opened. The evaluated prices of these consultants were as follows:

1. ORGUT Consulting AB (Sweden) ETB 8,794,500
2. WABEKBON Development Consultants PLC (Ethiopia) ETB3,988,000

e) The final point ranking (combined scores) of the consultants was as follows:
1. ORGUT Consulting AB (Sweden) 73.22%
2. WABEKBON Development Consultants PLC (Ethiopia) 77.66%

The winning consultant was, therefore, WABEKBON Development Consultants PLC (Ethiopia). After negotiation they were awarded the contract at a contract price of ETB 4,665,960.00 with 15% VAT and 2% Withholding Taxes. The duration of the contract will be 6 months commencing 28 days after the date of signing of the contract.

f) Scope of consultancy
The primary responsibility of this consultancy is to carry out a household and complementary community survey in the Ribb and Megech project areas. The firm will work in close collaboration with local counterparts and the project team in the development and supervision of all phases of data collection for the household survey. Specifically, the firm will be responsible for the following aspects of the household survey:

Questionnaire Development
• Piloting, translating and finalizing household and community questionnaires
• Obtaining approval of questionnaires from Ministry of Water Resources and the World Bank
• Printing of questionnaires
Sample design
• In collaboration with the Government-Bank team, select a sample of households for the household survey.
• The sampling will be based on the Central Statistical Authority’s (CSA) data on enumeration areas (EAs) in and adjacent to the project areas. A probability sample of these EAs will be selected (with half within the project area and half outside).
• A listing operation in each of the selected EAs will be carried out simply to record every household and the number of people in each household. The listing operation will be a separate operation from the interviewing operation.
• From this listing of all households in the selected EAs, a probability sample of households will be selected.
• Prepare materials for field staff with maps, names of household heads and any other identifying characteristics of the selected households.
• Develop clear protocols for replacement of households and to collect basic information on refusing households or those than cannot be found.
• Calculation of sampling weights following data collection taking into account the original sample design and any non-response.
Staffing
• Recruitment of interviewers, data entry technicians, supervisors and drivers. All interviewers and supervisors will need to be fluent in Amharic.
Equipment and Logistics
• Securing of office and computer equipment for survey management and data entry.
• Arranging for transportation and equipment related to household listing and household survey interviews.
• Ensuring proper maintenance and functionality of all vehicles and equipment.
• Secure anthropometric equipment suitable for height and weight measures of children under 60 months of age.
Training
• Preparation of training materials and detailed interviewer, supervisor and data entry manuals in close collaboration with the project office.
• Carry out in-depth training of all field staff, including practice interviewers and other similar exercises. It is expected that, given the complexity of the questionnaire, the training will take a minimum of three full weeks.
Data Collection
• Conduct household and community interviews in the selected households and communities.
• Collect anthropometric data on all children under 60 months of age.
• Take GPS readings on all dwellings and plots for location and area.
Data Entry
• Development of electronic data entry system with quality checks for out of range, missing data, and inconsistent data (intra- and inter-record). The project office will provide guidance on the critical consistency checks to include. The data entry application should produce reports listing errors for each household that can be used by the supervisors and interviewers to determine a schedule of re-visits to households to correct mistakes.
• Re-visit households to obtain correct data in the case of missing or inconsistent data being found at data entry.
• Development of blind double-entry data entry system.
• Supervision and verification of data entry process.
• Blind double entry of all questionnaires (household and community)
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