The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) was awarded a
World Bank funded Project titled – Feasibility
Studies and Preliminary Engineering Designs for Urban and Community Roads in
Mogadishu, Urban Roads in Garowe, Solid Waste and Liquid Waste Management in
Hargeisa.
This Project is part of the Urban Investment Planning Project (UIPP) and
includes three components for UNOPS to provide project management and
engineering services.
The three components that require UNOPS inputs are as follows:-
Component A – Feasibility Study and Preliminary Engineering designs for Community
Roads in 17 districts of Mogadishu.
Component B – Feasibility Study and Preliminary engineering designs for Urban Roads
in Mogadishu (approximately 17km) and Garowe (approximately 26 km) and Solid
Waste and Liquid Waste SW/LW Management in Hargeisa.
Component C – Management, Oversight and Quality Assurance
Under these components, the initial feasibility study report conducted
social assessments to interact with the local communities through the UNOPS Project
Team composition - Consultant Community Organizer's and the
Municipality/District Community Leaders. The partner Consultants (APEX and IPE
Global) developed a tool that determined road section priorities for possible
investments, and interacted with the municipal officials, district leaders and
the communities for the identification and project agreements.
A team of 3 UNOPS National
Technical Liaison Counterparts was hired, based in South Central, Somaliland
and Puntland respectively. As well as the Consultant’s Community Experts, other
key stakeholders such as the World Bank, and other related projects such as
‘Transition Initiatives for Stabilization Plus (TIS+)’ and the Municipal
Governments were regularly involved and close working relationships were developed
for the Project.
Supplemental Scope of
Work
- Bid Document Preparation
UNOPS is to prepare a
standard set of bidding documents required for the Mogadishu community /
secondary and urban roads, leading immediately thereafter to the procurement
for the construction of the roads works.
The bidding documents are to be based on World Bank Standard Bidding
Documents.
The bid documentation
is to include all of the works that have had preliminary engineering designs
prepared under the original Agreement between UNOPS and World Bank, and
supplement these PEDs with the additional engineering inputs required to
transform the PEDs into final designs drawings, associated bills of quantities,
engineers’ estimated costs, and the full package of bidding documents including
the technical specifications.
2. The scoping work in Baidoa and Kismayo
will encompass three primary elements:
(i) Assess the adequacy of the current water
supply resources and determine the level of additional customers which can be
accommodated under the existing water resources, as well as any identify
additional water resources which might be developed to accommodate for
increased levels of inflow of displaced persons
(ii)Develop plans and basic designs for the
construction of camps to accommodate significant numbers of incoming returnees
to Somalia.
(iii) Assess and identify priorities for
roads investment