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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 PLRIP Phase 1 (P171836), implemented by the Department of Local Infrastructure (DoLI) in partnership with provincial and local governments. The program supports improvements to provincial and local roads and bridges, maintenance, road safety, and institutional capacity for road asset management. This project 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, exposure to landslides, floods and other climate risks, and varying technical capacity at provincial and local levels. The Bank therefore seeks an individual consultant to provide independent engineering support to its Task Team and to the implementing agencies. Objective: The objective of the assignment is to provide professional and practical engineering support so that works under PLRIP 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, particularly for PLRIP.
• 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 PLRIP contract, and at least twice a year for a risk-based sample of PLRIP packages, 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. 3.4 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 PLRIP and follow up with DoLI/CPCU, provincial units 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 under PLRIP and propose harmonized templates, checklists and reporting formats. Deliverables and Schedule: The consultant will maintain and update the contract register and tracker on a monthly basis and provide a monthly progress note highlighting key issues, contract status, and early-warning flags by the 5th working day of each month. Site visit reports, including photographs, key findings, and recommended actions, will be submitted within 7 days of each visit. Technical review memos covering designs, variations, claims, and bid evaluations will be provided within 10 working days of the request, or within 5 working days for urgent requests. Inputs for supervision missions and project status reports will be submitted at least one week before each mission. A summary of PLRIP engineering risks will be provided quarterly, and a final report capturing lessons learned and recommendations will be submitted at the end of the assignment.