The
Ethiopian herald Thursday October 23, 2025
REQUEST
FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTING
SERVICES FIRMS SELECTION)
COUNTRY: Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
NAME OF PROJECT:
Ethiopia Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Project
Credit No.: IDA
64450
Assignment Title:
Consultancy service for independent Procurement Audit of the Ethiopia Water
Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Project (One WaSH National Program
(OWNP-CWA)) for the
period of January 2023-to-January 2025.
Reference No.:
ET-MOWE-465019-CS-QCBS
The Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) has received financing from the World
Bank toward the cost of implementation of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Project
and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting service. The
consulting service intended duration is for Two (2) months.
1) Objectives of
the assignment
The objective of
the procurement audit is to enable the Consultant to express a professional
opinion(s) on the procurement positions, processes and procedures related to World
Bank's procurement procedures and procedures of the project for the procurement
transactions carried out in the last two years for the period of (2023/2024 &
2024/2025) (January 2015-to- January 2017 Ethiopia Fiscal Years).
To achieve this
objective, the Consultant carries out, at least the following main tasks,
a) Review the
planning, procurement, contracting, implementation processes and record keeping
for a sample of contracts under the Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Project(One
WaSH National Program (OWN P-CWA)) to confirm their consistency with the
Project Appraisal Document (PAD), Program Operation Manual (POM), Financing
Agreement (FA), World bank's Procurement and consultant Guidelines and
Procurement Plan approved by the World Bank.
b) Seek a
professional opinion on compliance by the procurement processes with the general
principle of economy, efficiency, equal opportunities, transparency and verify
technical compliance, physical completion and price competitiveness of each contract
in the selected representative sample of contracts;
c) Review the
capacity of implementing agencies (Federal, Regions and Woredas) in handling
procurement efficiently, comment on the quality of planning, procurement, contracting,
procurement internal control, record keeping and identify reasons for delays,
if any and overall, how procurement management facilitates project implementation;
d) Identify any
indicators of questionable standards of ethics in the procurement management
and oversight environment that make the processes vulnerable to fraud and
corruption or collusive and obstructive practices, and report any suspicious
cases; and to recommend actions needed to improve project procurement
performance in light of deficiencies.
2) Scope of the
Procurement Audit
-The Independent
Procurement Audit (IPA) will cover the procurement transactions carried out in
two years from (2023/2024 & 2024/2025) (January 2015-to- January 2017 Ethiopia
Fiscal Years) under the Consolidated WASH project.
-The procurement
audit for the federal level will cover the four Agencies that handle OWNP
implementation: Ministry of Water & Energy, Ministry of Education, Ministry
of Health and Ministry of Finance. The procurement audit for Regional level
will cover the Water, Education, Health and Finance Bureaus of Amhara, Oromia,
SNNP, Tigray, Gambella,,Afar, Harari, BenishangulGumuz, and Somali Regions and
Dire Dawa Administration. The independent procurement audit at woreda levels
shall cover 115 Woredas on sample basis.
-The sample woredas
will be selected by the consulting firm in consultation with each relevant
region in order to ensure a broad representation of woredas in the sample. The
Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE) now invites eligible consulting firms ("Consultants")
to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested Consultants should
provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications
and relevant experiences to perform the Services.
The short listing
criteria are: (i) Core business and years in business; (ii) Relevant Experience
in the field of assignment; and (iii) Technical and managerial capability of the
firm.
N.B Individual
experts' bio data/CV is not required to be submitted with the Expression of
Interest. Only a summary of educational qualifications and the experience of
available personnel are required.
The attention of
interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and
3.17 of the World Bank's "Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers"
Six Edition Feb. 2025 ("Procuremerit Regulations"), setting forth the
World Bank's policy on conflict of interest. Consultants may associate with
other firms to enhance their qualifications, but should indicate clearly
whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/ or a
sub-consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint
venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if
selected.
A Consultant will
be selected in accordance with the Quality And Cost-Based Selection (QCBS)
method set out in the procurement Regulations.
The English version
of ToR and Shortlisting Evaluation criteria can be obtained free of charge by
downloading it from the Ministry's website at https://www.mowe.gov.et/en/ resource_types/procurement-files-.
Further information
can be obtained at the address below during office hours from Monday to Friday,
9:00 AM to 1 1:30 AM in the morning and from 2:00PM to 5:00PM in the afternoon.
Expressions of
interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below in person, or
by e-mail (PDF Format) by Nov. 7, 2025 on or before 5:00 PM Local Time 3) The
address (es) referred to above is:
Ministry of Water
and Energy OWNP-CWA-II PMU
Attn: Mr. Tesfaye
Lule, PMU Coordinator/ Dawit Ayalew Street address: Haile Gebresilasie Street
First Floor, and
Room number 112
Telephone:
+251912506122/0966225499
Email:
tesfayelulie.ownp@gmail.com/daveayalew2009@gmail.corn
City: Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
Ministry
of Water and Energy