Consultancy Services to conduct Feasibility Study and provide Master Plan for the Buchanan Economic Zone and Special Agro Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) in Liberia

The Scope of the Services to be performed

The Firm with the requisite skills and experience will be responsible for the following activities:

1. Carry out a comprehensive feasibility study and provide a master plan for the entire SEZs on a multi-sector basis;
2. Assess in detail the agricultural value chains and recommend interventions that will help improve production efficiency;
3. Undertake a value chain analysis, assess the production gaps, challenges and marketable surplus (if any) in the target commodities;
4. Identify and design Rural Transformation centers (RTCs) located strategically in Bong, Grand Bassa and Nimba Counties. These RTCs should also consider taking advantage of the existing AFDB SAPEC project activities and the proposed Word Bank project activities STAR-P;
5. Carry out zoning of identified components and develop a master plan and outline business case for the entire SAPZ park within the SEZ in Buchanan;
6. Carry out an Infrastructure gap analysis and location analysis with broad specifications and designs for both external and internal infrastructures;
7. Carry out the Project costing and viability analysis for the SAPZ Park and respective RTCs;
8. Develop the Project implementation strategy, project implementation structure, and legal aspects;
9. Develop the Project Implementation schedule and micro level action plan;
10. Develop a Risk mapping and mitigation strategies for the SAPZ Project;
11. Provide an analysis of the beneficiaries and contribution to job creation and other benefits in Liberia;
12. Provide explicitly the cost and price assumptions (dataset) to inform further evaluation at project appraisal and implementation phase.

Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience:

The desired expertise required from the firm will include an infrastructure specialist, an agricultural economist with value chain assessment expertise all with a minimum of Master’s degree in relevant subject area and at least 10 years of post-qualification experience and survey/mapping expert with a minimum of first Degree and at least 8 years hands-on experience in surveying and mapping.

Duty Station: Monrovia
Start Date: TBA
End Date: TBA
Duration of Assignment: Three Months

The Project Management Unit (PMU) of the Ministry of Finance & Development Planning (MFDP) now invites eligible consulting firms to indicate interest in providing these services by submitting their Expressions of Interest demonstrating experience in performing similar assignments with references and showing responsiveness to the qualifications requirements outlined in this REOI.

The consulting firm will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost Based Selection Method in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Policy Framework for Bank Group Funded Operations” October 2015 which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org.

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours, i.e. from 0900 to 1700 hours (GMT) on working days. Expressions of interest must be delivered in a

written form or by email to the address below by 5th September 2019 @ 1700 hours (GMT) and mention “EOI to Provide Feasibility Study and Master Plan for the Buchanan Special Economic Zone and Special Agro Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) in Liberia”.

The Project Manager
Project Management Unit (PMU)
Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP)
P.O Box 109013 – Intersection of Broad and Mechlin Streets
1000 Monrovia, 10 Liberia
Phone: +231770 161 561
E-Mail: ltaylor@mfdp.gov.lr, and copied to jmentroe@mfdp.gov.lr