Request for expressions of interest
Consultancy Services for Environmental & Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) Monitoring
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Country: TURKEY
Name of Project: Gas Storage Expansion Project
Project ID No: P162727
Assignment Name: Consultancy Services for Environmental & Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) Monitoring
Reference No: CS-1-4
This request for expressions of interest follows the general procurement notice for this project that appeared in Development Business (online) on April 03, 2017.
Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ) has applied for financing from the World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank toward the cost of “Gas Storage Expansion Project (GSEP)” and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.
An ESIA Report and a Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) were prepared to reflect national and World Bank (WB) requirements. Final ESIA Report and RPF can be found on http://www.botas.gov.tr/docs/duyurular/2018/duyuru_26032018_1/Gas_Storage_Expansion_Project_Final_ESIA_Report_Rev.0_EN.zipandhttp://www.botas.gov.tr/docs/duyurular/2018/duyuru_26032018_1/Resettlement_Policy_Framework_Rev.H_EN.pdf, respectively. The RPF forms a basis for the preparation of the component specific RAPs. Final and approved RAPs. will be shared with the Consultant once the ‘Consultancy Services for ESIA and RAP Monitoring’ contract is awarded
The consulting services (“the Services”) include but are not limited to compliance of ESIA and RAP monitoring of the construction related and operational (in the first 6 months) activities associated with GSEP including:
1. Surface Facilities: Surface facilities include pig stations, all necessary injection and withdrawal units, i.e. the compressor facility, with turbo compressor units and reciprocating compressor units, the gas treatment facility, with pressure reduction units, water separators, heating and tri-ethylene glycol (TEG) units, all auxiliaries, filters, fuel gas skid and vent stack, fiscal metering units, a control room, a utility building, worker’s camps and access roads.
2. Subsurface Facilities: Under the expansion project, it is planned to drill and leach 40 wells with solution mining within the licensed area of 5.4 bcm. This component includes review of basic designs, preparation of detail engineering designs, drilling of wells with adequate subsurface installation, leaching of salt caverns for gas storage purpose (each cavern with a free geometrical volume approximately 630.000 – 870.000 m³), first gas filling for each cavern, snubbing for each cavern, commissioning of each cavern and operation of caverns.
3. Fresh Water Supply and Brine Discharge Pipelines: This component will involve construction of a 117 km fresh water supply line (52-60’’in diameter) from Hirfanli Reservoir to project site and a 31 km brine discharge line (64” in pipe diameter) from the new solution mining plant to the TuzGolu. This component also involves several pumping stations and storage reservoirs and energy transmission lines for pump stations and storage tanks.
4. Field Gas Pipeline System, Fresh Water Field Pipelines and Brine Field Pipelines: This component will involve design and construction of all field pipelines that transport natural gas from the gas facilities to and from the cavern sites, as well as field pipelines for fresh water and brine from the central pumping station to the cavern sites.
5. Electricity Supply: Project includes electricity transmission lines for the fresh water pumping stations, surface and sub-surface facilities.
6. Natural Gas Pipeline: Gas pipeline interconnection (header) between Kayseri–Konya–Seydişehir section (approximately 23 km north of the Project Site) of the existing Eastern Anatolia Natural Gas Main Transmission Line (40” in pipe diameter) to the Expansion Project Site.
The Consultant shall perform its activities in accordance with the WB Operational Policies, including environmental and social safeguard policies as well as Turkish Environmental and Social Legislations. Each stage of the construction activities will be checked and monitored in accordance with the frequencies specified in the final (i) ESIA and supporting documents, including but not limited to ESMP, Stakeholder Engagement Plan, Occupational Health and Safety Plan, sub-management plans (ii) RAPs and supporting documents including but not limited to RAP Monitoring Plan(s) ensuring all environmental and social standards are being fully satisfied and all services are in full conformity with the environmental and social safeguard documents developed by BOTAŞ.
All activities shall be fully documented and recorded, including measurements and records pertaining to the work in accordance with Turkish regulations and WB guidelines.
The capacity expansion works planned for the project is set to begin in mid-2018 and expected to be completed within 6 (six) years, and the works are expected to be commissioned in several phases beginning from 2021 to end of 2023. In this regard, the Services are expected to be commenced by mid-2018. The Consultant will mobilize following the receipt of the contract award notification and no later than the agreed date for “Commencement of Services”. The supervision activities will span the construction period until the successful commissioning and initial 6 months of operation of the GSEP.
The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment are attached to this Request for Expression of Interest and can be found at the following website: www.botas.gov.tr.
BOTAŞ now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.
The shortlisting criteria are as follows:
1. Minimum 10 years of general experience in similar types of consultancy services,
2. Specific experience in environmental and social impact assessment and resettlement/land acquisition studies for energy sector projects (i.e. oil and gas pipelines, energy transmission lines, installations for storage of petroleum products, underground storage of combustible gases, surface storage of fuels, crude oil refineries, power stations) in the last 10 years,
3. Specific experience in environmental, social and occupational health and safety monitoring services in the last 10 years,
4. Specific experience in environmental and social impact assessment, occupational health and safety, cultural heritage management, and RAP/Land Acquisition studies in compliance with International Finance Institutions’ procedures (WB Group, EBRD and any other equivalent finance institutions) in the last 10 years,
5. Minimum 5 years of experience in the environmental sustainability including climate change, environmental management, environmental risk assessment, hazard identification, resource efficiency, etc.
6. Minimum 5 years of experience in resettlement and land acquisition, livelihood restoration, sustainable development, stakeholder engagement.
7. Current staffing and administrative capacity relevant to the task; environmental and social experts with backgrounds in fields stated in articles above.
8. Current soundness of the financial capacity.
Regional experience and experience in Turkish legal framework relevant to environmental and social safeguards and availability of ISO 9001; ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certificates will be taken into consideration.
Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the WB’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, revised in November 2017 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the WB’s policy on conflict of interest.
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 sub-consultancy. 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.
Interested consultants should clearly indicate the structure of their “association” and the duties of the partners and sub-consultants in their application. Unclear expression of interests in terms of “in association with” and/or “in affiliation with” and etc. may not be considered for short listing. Keeping one expression of interest per firm as principle, a consultant firm may decide whether it wishes to participate as a sub-consultant or as a single consultant or as a partner in a joint venture. Please note that a firm shall submit only one EOI in the same selection process either individually as a single consultant or as a partner in a joint venture. No firm can be a sub-consultant while submitting an EOI individually or as a partner of a joint venture in the same selection process. A firm, if acting in the capacity of sub-consultant in any consultant or JV, may participate in more than one consultant, but only in the capacity of a sub-consultant.
A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the “Quality and Cost-based Selection (QCBS)” method set out in the World Bank Procurement Regulations.
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 09:00 to 17:00 (GMT+2) on workdays.
Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by fax, or by e-mail) by June 28, 2018, 16:00 hrs. (GMT+2).
The Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ)
Attn: Mr. M. Gazi DÜLGER
Head of Underground Gas Storage Department
Bilkent Plaza A-1 Blok, 06800
Çankaya, Ankara / TURKEY
Tel:+90 312 297 20 18
Fax:+90 312 297 32 68
e-mail: ugs@botas.gov.tr