E T Consultant

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd The World Bank is supporting the Government of Nepal through a portfolio of transport operations under implementation:

• SRCTIP (P170409) is implemented by the Department of Roads (DoR). It finances strategic road connectivity and trade-related improvements, delivered mainly through large civil works contracts and associated supervision contracts.
• ACCESS Nepal Phase 1 (P177902) is part of a regional program to improve transport and trade connectivity in Eastern South Asia. Its transport component includes the upgrading of a major section of the national highway network. These projects face common implementation challenges: procurement and contract award timelines, progress of large civil works, design and construction quality, contract management issues, land acquisition and utility relocation, and exposure to landslides, floods and other climate risks. The Bank therefore seeks an individual consultant to provide independent engineering support to its Task Teams and to the implementing agency. Objective The objective of the assignment is to provide professional and practical engineering support so that works under SRCTIP and ACCESS are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required standards of quality, safety, environmental and social performance, with sound contract management. Scope of Services Technical Review and Advisory
• Review feasibility studies, detailed designs, drawings, bills of quantities and technical specifications for roads, bridges, drainage, slope protection and road safety features, to confirm compliance with applicable national and international standards and climate-resilience principles.
• Review design changes, value-engineering proposals and cost estimates, contract management and advise on solutions for geotechnical, hydrological and landslide-prone sections; and any engineering issues, as needed
• Review technical aspects of bidding documents and bid evaluation reports, including qualification criteria and reasonableness of unit rates.
• Advise on road safety audits, climate vulnerability assessments and road asset management approaches.
• Review PPSD, bid documents, bid evaluation reports regarding Procurement of goods, works and consulting services Supervision Oversight
• Monitor the performance of supervision consultants and engineers on each contract, including staffing, mobilization, inspection quality, and timeliness of instructions and certification.
• Carry out site visits at least quarterly for each major SRCTIP and ACCESS contract to verify progress, workmanship, materials testing, quarry and borrow area management, and traffic and worker safety.
• Review contractors' work programmes, quality assurance plans, method statements and test records, and recommend corrective actions with deadlines where deviations are found.
• Verify that environmental and social requirements (including environmental and social management plans, resettlement action plans, labor management, prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and tree-felling and compensation measures) are applied in the works and reported in supervision reports.
• Verify, on a sample basis, the physical basis of measured quantities and interim payment certificates. Contract Management Support
• Monitor register of all active works and supervision contracts, covering value, key dates, securities, insurance, variations, claims, payments and status.
• Review and advise on variation orders, extension of time requests, price adjustment, claims and dispute resolution, consistent with the contract conditions and World Bank procurement requirements.
• Analyze contract performance (planned versus actual progress, cash flow, delay analysis) and issue early-warning notes for contracts at risk.
• Advise on contract amendments and requests for the Bank's no objection, confirming technical justification and value for money.
• Advise on contract completion, handover, defects liability management and final account review. Implementation Support and Monitoring
• Prepare inputs for Implementation Support Missions, Implementation Status and Results Reports, aide-memoires and reviews, including physical progress, issue analysis and agreed actions.
• Maintain an issue and action tracker for each project and follow up with DoR and other counterparts.
• Support disbursement planning by identifying procurement and contract bottlenecks and preparing cash-flow forecasts.
• Verify infrastructure-related results indicators (such as length of road constructed, rehabilitated or maintained, and bridges completed). Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing
• Provide on-the-job guidance and short training sessions for agency engineers on quality assurance, contract administration, safeguards compliance, road safety and climate-resilient design.
• Document lessons learned across the two projects and propose harmonized templates, checklists and reporting formats. Deliverables and Schedule Contract register and tracker: Monthly Progress note on key issues, contract status, and early-warning flags: By the 5th working day of each month Site visit reports with photos, findings, and recommended actions: Within 7 days of each visit Technical review memos on designs, variations, claims, and bid evaluations: Within 10 working days of request; 5 working days for urgent requests Inputs to supervision missions and project status reports: At least 1 week before each mission Portfolio engineering risk summary: Quarterly Final report with lessons learned and recommendations: At the end of the assignment