SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Palestine - Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Project
- Notice Date
- 8/4/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- United States Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, USTDA, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, C/O US TDA 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, Arlington, Virginia, 22209-3901
- ZIP Code
- 22209-3901
- Solicitation Number
- 2010-21014B
- Archive Date
- 9/25/2010
- Point of Contact
- Nina Patel, Phone: (703) 875-4357
- E-Mail Address
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npatel@ustda.gov
(npatel@ustda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- POC Nina Patel, USTDA 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600 Arlington, VA 22209-3901 Tel: (703) 875-4357 Fax: (703) 875-4009 ***Please do not contact contracts office*** Proposal Submission Place: Amir Dajani Massar Associates 7 Al-Kawther Street Al-Bireh, Palestine Tel: 00970 2 2409595 Email: Adajani@Rawabi.Ps The Grantee invites submission of qualifications and proposal data (collectively referred to as the "Proposal") from interested U.S. firms that are qualified on the basis of experience and capability to develop a feasibility study for the Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Project. The vision of the Rawabi development is to create an affordable and environmentally sustainable residential community in the West Bank that will simultaneously act as a hub for a knowledge-based economy. The Rawabi community is being developed on a 250-acre site in the West Bank, six miles north of Ramallah. The community is envisaged to eventually grow to accommodate 40,000 residents, plus a commercial center, schools, a clinic and a hotel. The projected initial occupancy date is 2011. The Rawabi development is designed to promote sustainable economic growth and affordable housing in the West Bank while advancing the use of environmentally beneficial technologies for wastewater reuse in this water scarce region. Affordable housing is in very short supply in the West Bank. The lack of housing is a significant barrier to improved living standards and upward mobility, and this development will help to address the lack of housing. The Rawabi development is also expected to constitute the largest job-creation initiative in the history of the Palestinian Territories, both in terms of short- to medium-term employment during the construction phase, and in terms of permanent job opportunities resulting from the community's commercial and business activities. Given that Rawabi is intended to serve as a magnet for high-technology businesses, many of these opportunities are expected to be of particular benefit to the West Bank's well-educated but underemployed young workforce. The purpose of the present Feasibility Study (FS) is to assess wastewater treatment technologies for a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) that will provide wastewater reclamation and reuse both within the Rawabi community and the surrounding communities of Bani Zeid and Ein Synia, and for irrigation of agricultural land and industrial sites outside of the Rawabi area. The FS will investigate the suitability of current wastewater treatment technology such as Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) and Sequential Bioreactor (SBR) for wastewater treatment for reuse in accordance with current water quality standards for treated wastewater irrigation. The evaluation will assess the advantages and disadvantages of using these technologies to implement wastewater reclamation systems for agriculture wastewater reuse in the study area. The proposed Project is part of a necessary non-potable water supply service expansion to ameliorate water supply shortage conditions that prevail in the West Bank. The proposed Project is consistent with PWA current water resources conservation policies and with Rawabi's overall strategic plan aimed at reducing dependency on overexploited water resources in the study area. The U.S. firm selected will be paid in U.S. dollars from a $316,180 grant to the Grantee from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). A detailed Request for Proposals (RFP), which includes requirements for the Proposal, the Terms of Reference, and a background definitional mission/desk study report are available from USTDA, at 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, Arlington, VA 22209-3901. To request the RFP in PDF format, please go to: https://www.ustda.gov/businessopps/rfpform.asp Requests for a mailed hardcopy version of the RFP may also be faxed to the IRC, USTDA 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 USTDA 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 USTDA to retrieve the RFP should allow one hour after faxing the request to USTDA 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, USTDA 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 courier and/or mail room before calling USTDA. Only U.S. firms and individuals may bid on this USTDA financed activity. Interested firms, their subcontractors and employees of all participants must qualify under USTDA's nationality requirements as of the due date for submission of qualifications and proposals and, if selected to carry out the USTDA-financed activity, must continue to meet such requirements throughout the duration of the USTDA-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 the West Bank. The U.S. firm may use subcontractors from the West Bank for up to 20 percent of the USTDA grant amount. Details of USTDA's nationality requirements and mandatory contract clauses are also included in the RFP. Interested U.S. firms should submit their Proposal in English directly to the Grantee by 4:00 PM Local Time, September 10, 2010 at the above address. Evaluation criteria for the Proposal 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 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.
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