RFP invited for undertaking detailed Social Impact Assessment in 202 villages of Dankuni - Gomoh,Kolkata

Name of the Work: Work of undertaking detailed Social Impact Assessment (SIA) in approximately 202 villages (about 282.22 Km) of Dankuni - Gomoh Section of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor under the jurisdiction of CPM/Kolkata.

Introduction:

Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) extends from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni near Kolkata, West Bengal. Dankuni – Gomoh section is being considered for funding on PPP. This section being highly congested, development of DFC will significantly improve efficiency of both freight and passenger traffic and associated industrial and economic benefits. SIA & RAP are required as per the provisions of RFCT LARR Act-2013 or NRRP 2007 as applicable.

Minimum Eligibility Criteria

a) Must have been a registered and reputed professional agency/company with adequate experience in Social Assessment, Resettlement and land acquisition, GIS and computerization. The consultant team should have specialists leading the team with appropriate local support staff for socio-economic survey and community consultations.

b) It must have personals as specified in TOR of these documents excellent skills in writing and speaking English and must be conversant in Hindi and Bengali.

c) It must have experience of having implemented projects directly funded by reputed agencies and completed at least one work of similar nature.

d) It must have operating field office in the state of West Bengal and Jharkhand.

e) Bidders should submit requisite paper from agency which had deployed the consultant and certificate of satisfactory completion of work, failing to produce such paper will summarily call for disqualification of the bidder.

Bidders are required to give unconditional offers. Conditional offers, having financial implication, are liable to be rejected.

Submission of Proposals

(i) Proposals should be submitted in English language.

(ii) All the personnel of the Consultant shall have working knowledge of English and all the reports etc shall be written prepared in English.

Limitations to Joint Ventures or sub-consultant:

Joint venture consisting of maximum of two firms is permitted. However, lead partner of the JV must be the recipient of BID. In case of JV the experience of both the firms shall be counted. In case of association/sub consultant, the experience of associated firm/sub-consultant shall not be counted, whereas the key personnel of the associated firm would be considered for evaluation. If CVs & other details are furnished as per sections 5.

DFCCIL shall reimburse only service tax that is payable under applicable law subject to submission of proof of payment. It is the responsibility of Consultant to ascertain whether service tax is payable and its extent. Consultant has to assess all other Taxes and should inbuilt them in their financial proposal. These taxes (othe than service tax) should not be shown separately. The Consultants shall state Price in Indian Rupees (INR) only.

Procedure for submission of bid

This is an Open Tender. Each page of Bid must be signed and sealed by the bidder or its authorized representative in whose name power of attorney is issued. Bids should be submitted in one envelope super scribed as follows:

Tender No.:-

Name of work:-

Date & Time of opening of Tender:-

Name & Address of Consultants/Firm:-

The proposal submission address is:

Chief Project Manager

Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd.

18/N (Ground Floor), Block A, New Alipore,

Kolkata-700053, West Bengal

Proposals must be submitted not later than the date and time mentioned in IFB.

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