Consultancy Services for Detailed Engineering Design, Supervision and Environmental and Social Instruments for Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure for Vilanculos, Pambarra and Mapinhane

REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE

MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS, HOUSING AND WATER RESOURCES

WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION INVESTMENT AND ASSETS FUND – FIPAAS

URBAN WATER SECURITY PROGRAM – P509890

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Nº. FIPAAS/UWSP/CON-02/26

CONSULTING SERVICES FOR DETAILED ENGINEERING DESIGN, SUPERVISION AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INSTRUMENTS FOR WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR VILANKULO, PAMBARRA AND MAPINHANE

1.     The Government of Mozambique, through the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources (MOPHRH), has received financing from the World Bank under the Urban Water Security Program (P509890), to be implemented in the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area and the Southern Region, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract FIPAG/UWSP/CON-02/26 – Consulting Services for Detailed Engineering Design, Supervision and Environmental And Social Instruments for Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure for Vilankulo, Pambarra and Mapinhane.

2 .     The services include: (i) review of the 2021 studies and detailed engineering design of the water supply infrastructure, the Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant and public sanitation blocks in Vilankulo, Mapinhane and Pambarra; (ii) preparation of the environmental and social instruments and tender documents; and (iii) construction supervision. The expected duration is 10 months for the detailed design (Lump-Sum) and 28 months for construction supervision, including a 12-month Defects Liability Period.

3.       The Water Supply and Sanitation Investment and Assets Fund (FIPAAS) invites eligible firms (“Consultants”) to express their interest in providing the services. Interested Consultants must provide valid information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, etc.).

4.      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”, 7th Edition, September 2025, setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

5.     The firms are also drawn to paragraph 3.32, of the Section III, related to prohibited practices (fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, and obstruction) and the Consultants found to have engaged in such practices will be declared ineligible for World Bankfinanced contracts.

6.     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 subconsultancy. 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.

7.      The Consultant shall be a Civil Engineering consulting firm with: (i) - A minimum of 15 (fifteen) years of general experience in the water and sanitation sector; (ii) - At least 10 (ten) years of specific experience in Sub-Saharan Africa; (iii) - have successfully executed at least three (3) projects of hydraulic infrastructure, with similar nature, which may include, but are not limited to: (a) Water supply systems; (b) Sanitation infrastructure; (c) Hydraulic infrastructure for water resources management; (d) Irrigation and (e) productive water use schemes, (iv) - demonstrate experience in assignments implemented under FIDIC Conditions of Contract and/or projects financed by international financing institutions or other internationally financed development programmes, (v) - demonstrate experience with the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF), (vi) - World Bank procurement requirements, or equivalent environmental, social and procurement frameworks applied by other international financing institutions, (vii) – have at least six (6) water supply system projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, each including: (a) Surface water abstraction and intake works; (b) Conventional water treatment plants; (c) Reinforced concrete reservoirs with a minimum storage capacity of ≥ 5,000 m³;  (d) Distribution networks with pipe diameters of ≥ 500 mm and (viii) – have at least three (3) detailed engineering designs of sanitation infrastructure, including faecal sludge treatment plants (FSTPs) and associated facilities.

8.      Detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) for this assignment may be obtained through the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e02RqSChZh-U15BOHDF21QtQQlQmo0r_/view?usp=drivesdk

9.     The Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method as set out in the Procurement Regulations.

10.      Additional information may be obtained at the address below during normal working hours (07:30 to 15:30).

11.      Expressions of Interest must be delivered in written form in English to the address below (in person or by e-mail) by 14:30 hours on November 11, 2026.

Fundo de Investimento e Património do Abastecimento de Água e Saneamento - (FIPAAS)

Av. Filipe Samuel Magaia, no. 1297

Maputo, Mozambique

E-mail: ugea.ugea@fipaas.gov.mz

Maputo, 27th October 2026