Bid Announcement 1

Environment Cooperation-Asia (ECO-Asia) China Water and Sanitation Program aims to promote the adoption of good governance practices in urban water services delivery through technical assistance, research activities, and best practice sharing with regional practitioners. ECO-Asia China Water and Sanitation Program would like to invite bids for a research activity on policy options for better regulations of private sector participation in delivering urban water supply and wastewater treatment services.

The research should summarize local and regional (Asia) best practices of governments regulating private sector participation in water services delivery, conduct case studies in several provinces or cities in China on different types of agreements between government and private sector, identify and analyze problems of current practices, and provide policy recommendations drawing on international and China’s experience.  

The value of the bid is $60,000, and the research will need to be completed by July 2009. Successful bidder should be qualified research institute in China with experience in policy research on public-private-partnerships. Interested parties should contact the project office for detailed information and request for proposals (RFP) within two weeks from the publishing date of this announcement.

Contact Person: Rose Lang, Tel: 010-65183868 ex 46; email: rlang@eco-asia.org.

Bid Announcement 2

Environment Cooperation-Asia (ECO-Asia) China Water and Sanitation Program aims to promote the adoption of good governance practices in urban water services delivery through technical assistance, research activities, and best practice sharing with regional practitioners. ECO-Asia China Water and Sanitation Program would like to invite bids for conducting a comprehensive sanitation cost-benefit study in partnership with stakeholders in Yunnan Province to support decision-making in sanitation planning.

The study is expected to use the technique of cost-benefit analysis to explicitly evaluate the major sets of costs and benefits associated with alternative policy and technical sanitation options. The study will conduct more micro-level economic analyses of potential household sanitation options, with comparison of solutions from the individual household level to the wider community level. This study will.

The value of the bid is $50,000, and the research will need to be completed by August 2009. Interested parties should contact the project office for detailed information and request for proposals (RFP) within one week from the publishing date of this announcement.

Contact Person: Rose Lang, Tel: 010-65183868 ex 46; email: rlang@eco-asia.org.