The consulting firm shall be legally established and eligible to provide consulting services in accordance with the Public Procurement Act (PPA) 2006 and Public Procurement Rules (PPR) 2025.

The consulting firm shall not be under suspension or debarment by the Government of Bangladesh.

The consulting firm shall have relevant experience and technical capacity to perform the assignment as specified in the Terms of Reference (TOR).

The consulting firm shall have the eligibility declaration of the e-REOI document.

1. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE

The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (GOB) will provide fund from the Operating Budget towards the cost of Consultancy Services for Inspection, Data collection, Condition Evaluation and Data Entry of Bridges & Culverts of Dhaka Zone and Mymensingh Zone into Bridge Management System (BMS) of Roads and Highways Department. This service will pave the way to build a comprehensive database of bridges/culverts under RHD. The objective of this specific service is to establish a database of bridges/culverts for these two zones.

2. SCOPE OF SERVICES

Bridge Inspection is the engineering assessment of the physical condition of a Bridge to determine necessary remedial measures such as maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, replacement etc. The distresses of Bridges/Culverts will be investigated as per Bridge Inspection and Evaluation Manual available at RHD Website or Office of the Undersigned. Some major scopes are

• Conduct Bridge/Culvert Inspection including Collection of Basic Data of Structures, Condition Inventory with the application of Video and still photography following the existing manuals and using certain Inspection tools and vehicles may be required .
• Verify collected data and prepare a complete Bridge Inventory in both hard and soft copy.
• Input of verified Data into BMS Server.
• Investigate vulnerable bridges from the priority list in detail as per requirement of the client, conduct destructive and non-destructive tests if necessary.
• Prepare design of repair/retrofitting, estimation of the repair/retrofitting work for selected bridges from the priority list.

However the scopes are not limited to above description rather than it will be covered by Term of Reference (ToR) of  the service.

The assignment requires recognized National consulting firm(s) either as individual firm or in Joint Venture/Association for short listing of Firm(s) for the consultancy services. Firms with strong technical capability, sound methodology, and proven experience in similar assignments will be considered. Firms with complementary expertise may associate to strengthen their qualifications. Interested firms may associate with other firms (Locals) to enhance their qualifications but should mention whether the association in the form of "Joint Venture" or "Sub-Consultancy". In the case of association all member of such "association" should have real and well-defined input of assignment.

The firm(s) should demonstrate:

•           General experience in providing consulting services

•           Specific experience: experience of completing similar nature of work/service of Bridge Inspection and Evaluation/Bridge Investigation/ Bridge Retrofitting Design/Bridge Retrofitting/Bridge Construction and Retrofitting Supervision.

•           Financial soundness;

•           Staffing and logistics; and

•           Availability of key experts. Key experts' qualifications

•           Availability of resources to be used in the services (tools, device, equipment, software etc.)

Interested consultants are requested to submit the following documents in support of their EOI:

• Certificate of Incorporation/Registration and other relevant legal documents of the firm.
• Joint Venture (JV) Agreement in the prescribed format (Schedule 12 of PPR 2025), or a Letter of Intent with the proposed JV Agreement (if applicable).
  • In addition to the above, the JV shall have to indicate all documents mentioned in "Experience, Resources and Delivery capacity required" collectively.
  • The lead partner shall not authorize any other partner to sign the contract and any other related documents.
  • In case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected. It is preferable to limit the maximum number of firms within 03 (three) in an association including the lead firm
• Firm profile/brochure, including organizational structure and staffing (limited to 3 pages).
• Audited financial statements for the last three (3) years, including turnover from consulting and other activities, profit and loss statement, assets and liabilities, together with the name, address, and website of the audit firm.
• General and Overall Experience of the firm(s) (limited to 5 pages)
• Evidence of Experience in Similar nature of service/work over the last 10 years (limited to 20 pages including a short summary); including description of services , ; Name of the client/organization, firm's role as lead partner/other partner/sub-consultant/Sole participant; contract value, personnel months, duration; billed amount, satisfactory completion certificates or client references etc.
• List of available key professionals relevant to the assignment.
• Valid Trade License, TIN, VAT Registration Certificate, and latest Income Tax Return/Tax Clearanc