Advance Contracting Notice
Date: 18 March 2013
Country/Borrower: People’s Republic of China
Title of Proposed Project: Gansu Jiuquan Integrated Urban Environment Improvement Project
Name and Address of Executing Agency:
Jiuquan Municipal Government (JMG) Room 1303, Integrated Government Building, Jiuquan Municipality, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China Fax No.: +86 937 261 4719 Tel No.: +86 937 265 8969 Email: [email protected] Contacts: Mr. Yang Ming, Project Director, PMO
Brief Description of the Project:
1. The project is designed to improve integrated environmental and social benefits and involve community participation in project design and implementation. It has the following special features: (i) in support of the government’s strategy for resources reuse, the project will provide institutional support for wastewater reuse and utilization of wastewater sludge in a manner appropriate to the local conditions; (ii) the design of the urban transport will take into account road safety, nonmotorized transport, and integration of public transport system considering the planned high speed railway. Traffic management, parking management, and road maintenance will also be supported for the central urban area. Road safety campaigns with schools, bus stations, drivers association, and communities will be supported to enhance public safety awareness. To enhance social benefits of the road network, JMG gave assurances to allot adequate low income housings in the expanded urban area; and (iii) windbreak plantation is well integrated with other project components to achieve the objectives of improving urban environment, and will adopt a multi-functional approach to reduce air pollution and land degradation, improve the city’s resilience to climate change impacts, and provide a landscaped area for public amenity. It will be monitored through a quantitative evaluation system to be developed by the project to ensure their benefits are sustainable. The project will also support regular water balance analyses and establish an education trail to inform the public on the city’s exposure to desertification and the benefits of the afforestation.
2. The project has four outputs:
(i) Wastewater collection and treatment. It will construct (a) a WWTP with a capacity of about 60,000 cubic meters (m3) per day, and (b) about 39 km of wastewater collection network.
(ii) Urban transport and utility facilities. It will (a) improve urban road network and related facilities in the expanded urban area, by constructing and upgrading about 15.9 km of urban roads, constructing and upgrading 2 bridges, and constructing associated utility facilities such as road lighting, pipes for water supply, wastewater, heating, and gas, and conduits for electricity and telecommunication lines; and (b) improve traffic management and safety systems, and upgrade about 0.8km of roads in the existing central urban area.
(iii) Windbreak plantation. It will plant about 60.5 hectares of windbreak tree screens along the northern and southern banks of Beida River.
(iv) Capacity development and institutional strengthening. It will provide consulting services for (a) capacity development of the executing and implementing agencies for smooth and timely implementation of the project in line with ADB procedures and guidelines; and (b) institutional strengthening of JMG and JEDIC for water conservation, wastewater reuse, sludge management, urban transport system, traffic management and safety, desertification risk management, and public awareness campaigns.
Brief Description of Goods and Related Services, Works or Consulting Services to be Procured and Retroactive Financing
ADB has approved advance contracting and retroactive financing for 4 works contracts for wastewater collection network, urban roads, bridges and associated utility facilities, and 4 consulting services contracts for capacity development and institutional strengthening. Retroactive financing will finance eligible expenditures up to $20 million (not exceeding 20% of the ADB loan) incurred for works and consulting services before loan effectiveness, but not earlier than 12 months before the loan agreement is signed. The advance procurement actions will be undertaken in accordance with ADB’s Procurement Guidelines and Guidelines on the Use of Consultants by Asian Development Bank and Its Borrowers.
Date of Advance Contracting and Retroactive Financing Approval: 20 February 2013