Mr. Mana Noppun; Bangkok City Hall 1173 Dinsor Rd; Bangkok 10200 TH; Tel. (66-2) 222-7170;Fax: 222-2982

B -- FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE KLONG TOEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN THAILAND POC Evangela Kunene, USTDA, 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22209-2131, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009 The Grantee invites submission of Prequalification Statements from interested U.S. firms which are qualified on the basis of experience and capability to develop a feasibility study for a wastewater treatment plant in Klong Toey, Thailand. Based upon the Prequalification Statements, the Grantee will develop a short list of qualified firms which will be invited in writing to submit a formal Technical Proposal to carry out the study. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is responsible for the collection and treatment of wastewater in the province of Bangkok. This agency has completed, or has under construction, five major schemes in the planning stages, but they are very ambitious and need reviewing before implementation. The first priority projects in the plan include the two districts of Thonburi and Klong Toey. BMA will first implement the Klong Toey scheme. The current status of the Klong Toey project is that the feasibility study and preliminary designs need to be updated and prequalification (PQ) documents need to be prepared for turnkey construction. BMA, with World Bank support, is interested in having a U.S. firm carry out the project development to the PQ for the turnkey construction stage. The tasks that would be performed by the U.S. firm for Klong Toey include the following: (1) Project Kickoff; (2) Establish Design Criteria; (3) Identification of Wastewater Treatment Alternatives; (4) Cost Estimates, Economics and Financial Analyses of Alternatives; (5) Preliminary Design of Least Cost Wastewater Treatment Alternative; (6) Preliminary Design Report; and (7) TDA Business Briefing. The U.S. firm selected will be paid in U.S. dollars from a $500,000 grant to the Grantees from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA). A detailed Request for Proposals (RFP), which includes the requirements for submission of the Prequalification Statements and the Technical Proposal, the Terms of Reference, and a background definitional mission/desk study report are available from TDA, at 1621 N. Kent Street, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22209-2131. Requests for the RFP should be faxed to the IRC, TDA at 703-875-4009. In the fax, please include your firm's name, contact person, address, and telephone number. Some firms have found that RFP materials sent by U.S. mail do not reach them in time for preparation of an adequate response. Firms that want TDA to use an overnight delivery service should include the name of the delivery service and your firm's account number in the request for the RFP. Firms that want to send a courier to TDA to retrieve the RFP should allow one hour after faxing the request to TDA before scheduling a pick-up. Please note that no telephone requests for the RFP will be honored. Please check your internal fax verification receipt. Because of the large number of RFP requests, TDA cannot respond to requests for fax verification. Requests for RFPs received before 4:00 PM will be mailed the same day. Requests received after 4:00 PM will be mailed the following day. Please check with your courierand/or mail room before calling TDA. Only U.S. firms and individuals may bid on this TDA financed activity. Interested firms, their subcontractors and employees of all participants must qualify under TDA's nationality requirements as of the due date for submission of qualifications and proposals and, if selected to carry out the TDA-financed activity, must continue to meet such requirements throughout the duration of the TDA-financed activity. All goods and services to be provided by the selected firm shall have their nationality, source and origin in the U.S. or host country. The U.S. firm may use subcontractors from host country for up to 20 percent of the TDA grant amount. Details of TDA's nationality requirements and mandatory contract clauses are also included in the RFP. Interested U.S. firms should submit their Prequalification Statements as outlined in the RFP in English directly to the Grantee by 4:00 P.M., July 29, 1999 at the above address. Evaluation criteria for the Prequalification Statements and the Technical Proposals are included in the RFP. Price will NOT be a factor in contractor selection, and therefore, cost proposals should NOT be submitted. The Grantee reserves the right to reject any and/or all Prequalification Statements or Technical Proposals. The Grantee also reserves the right to contract with the selected firm for subsequent work related to the project. The Grantee is not bound to pay for any costs associated with the preparation and submission of Proposals. Posted 06/24/99 (I-SN346718). (0175)

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