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GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Irrigated Agriculture Improvement Project (KPIAIP)

Sector:  Agriculture

Credit No. 6456-PK

Project ID No. P163474

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has received financing in the amount of US$ 171.00 million equivalent from INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, (“Association”) towards the cost of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Irrigated Agriculture Improvement Project (KPIAIP) and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works,  consulting and non-consulting services to be procured under this project.

The project has five components, as described in the following paragraphs.

Component A: Improvement of Community Irrigation Systems (US$140.7 million, IDA US$109.7 million). This component will improve the on-farm water supply in irrigated areas. There are two systems the project supports: watercourses in canal command areas and those in non-canal areas, also known as ‘civil canal’. The component will support four types of watercourse improvements for: (a) watercourses in canal-irrigated areas; (b) large-scale (around 3 cusecs) watercourses in non-canal irrigated areas; (c) small-scale watercourses (around 0.75 cusecs) in non-canal irrigated areas; and (d) piped water schemes in non-canal areas run from tube wells or springs, tanks or pumping from rivers and channels. In addition to working closely with WUAs, a project information campaign targeted at women will be conducted to encourage their participation in WUA operations and decision making. Farmers will be responsible for the provision of skilled and unskilled labour for the construction of community watercourses, while the Government will pay for materials. The component will serve as a climate adaptation measure for improved water conservation. A total of 14,000 watercourses will be improved to achieve up to 50 percent lining under this component. This implies an approximate increase in the percentage of improved watercourses out of all KP watercourses from 30 percent to 49 percent.

Component B: Introduction of Modern Irrigation Technologies (US$44.0 million, IDA US$26.8 million). This Component will provide support to farmers for the adoption of modern irrigation technologies to increase on-farm water application efficiency.

Component C: Capacity Building and Establishing Knowledge Base for Future Inclusive Growth (US$10.5 million, all IDA).

This Component has two subcomponents aimed at building capacity to optimize the investments in Components A and B and to lay the groundwork for profitable market linkages for the agricultural sector.

Component D: Project Management and Monitoring (US$24 million, all IDA). This component will ensure that all project activities are implemented effectively and in a timely manner. The complexity of institutional merging and streamlining former FATA into the KP system explains the relatively high cost of the Component. For example, three Regional Directors will be appointed to ensure smooth and effective project implementation in a region that includes both traditional KP areas and newly merged FATA areas.

Component E: Contingent Emergency Response (US$0). This component supports preparedness and rapid response to disaster, emergency, and/or catastrophic events, as needed. The provisional zero-cost for this component will allow for the rapid reallocation of credit proceeds from other components under streamlined procurement and disbursement procedures.

Procurement of contracts financed by the Project will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (July 2016) Revised November 2017 and August 2018 (Procurement Regulations), and is open to all eligible firms and individuals  as defined in the Procurement Regulations. After project negotiations, the World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection.

Specific procurement notices for contracts subject to open international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business online, on the Agriculture Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and project web sites and if relevant in newspapers of national circulation in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan  

Interested eligible firms and individuals who would wish to be considered for the provision of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services for the abovementioned project, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the address below:

Project Director

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Irrigated Agriculture Improvement Project (KPIAIP)

Directorate General On Farm Water Management

19-Jamrud Road, ATI Campus, Opposite Islamia College, Peshawar

(Ph: 091-9224307 & 9224308, Email: dgofwm@gmail.com)