Consultancy Services for Construction Supervision, Social Intermediation, Community Mobilization, and Awareness Raising for Improved Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Low-Income Communities (LICs) in Chattogram City

Published by Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, Chittagong Water Supply & Sewerage Authority. Procuring Entity: Chattogram Water Supply Improvement Project (CWSIP). 2. The objective of the assignment is to support CWASA in implementing water-supply and non-network sanitation investments in selected low-income communities (LICs) in Chattogram City. The services combine construction supervision, social intermediation, community mobilization, awareness raising, stakeholder coordination, and the establishment of practical operations and maintenance (O&M) arrangements. The assignment is intended to ensure site readiness; secure the necessary community, landowner, and institutional agreements; supervise and document the works; establish community structures; agree O&M arrangements before handover; and provide CWASA with timely information for managing implementation, risks, service commencement, and post-commissioning support. Procurement Method: Consultants Qualifications Selection (CQS). Budget and Source of Funds: Development Budget Grant/Credit. Experience and Resources Required: Qualification requirements • 10 years of demonstrated organizational experience in participatory planning, awareness generation, behavior change communication, and community mobilization with poor communities in Bangladesh, preferably in WASH, public health, environmental health, or urban resilience; • Five years of demonstrated experience working with urban poor communities or LICs on water supply, sanitation, FSM, shared sanitation, or related service delivery arrangements in Bangladesh; • Demonstrated experience coordinating with city agencies, utilities, municipalities/ pourashavas, WASAs, district administrations, contractors, CBOs, NGOs, or landowners for implementation of community-level infrastructure or service-delivery assignments; and • Demonstrated capacity to manage multidisciplinary field teams for construction supervision support, community facilitation, reporting, and coordination across multiple sites. Information to be included in the EOI • a concise firm profile and evidence of legal registration and authorization to operate in Bangladesh; • details of relevant assignments, including the client, country and location, period, status, scope of services, the firm's role, and supporting evidence; • a description of the firm's organizational, financial-management, documentation, reporting, and quality-management systems; • evidence of its capacity to deploy and manage multidisciplinary teams across multiple field locations.. Location: Chattogram, Bangladesh. Contact: Md. Rejaul Ahsan Chowdhury, Project Director, CWSIP. Address: Chattogram WASA WASA Bhaban, Dampara, Chattogram, Bangladesh..