Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project Procurement Notice

This Specific Procurement Notice for Request for Bids (RFB) follows the General Procurement Notice (GPN) No. OP00126428 for this project that appeared in UN Development Business on 22nd April 2021.

Punjab Rural Municipal Services Company (PRMSC) (hereinafter referred to as “Company”) is a government-owned not-for-profit company, incorporated with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, under Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2017.

The Government of Islamic Republic of Pakistan has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the Punjab Rural Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Project (PRSWSSP) for improving service delivery standards of the rural water & sanitation system and has extended the said financing to Company. The project has a robust impact evaluation (IE) plan.

The core objective of the IE will be to credibly assess the impact of the project on child stunting, along with other metrics of child and adult health. The design of the IE uses two features of project rollout: (i) All villages in a selected Tehsil will participate in the project over its lifetime.

By randomizing village rollout across years, the villages that roll out last will serve as controls for the villages that roll out first. In some locations, clusters of villages may be randomized instead of individual villages.

(ii) Villages in neighboring tehsils that border project tehsils can also serve as controls for a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) evaluation, which would closely mimic a randomized design, since the odds of district and tehsil selection are known precisely.

Given the nature of the MIS and the IE, the Project requires large-scale data collection at the household and village levels, conforming to the highest standards of data processing, transparency, and protection.

The company intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under Call-off Contracts that may be awarded under the Framework Agreements (FAs) for Data Collection for Project Impact Evaluation , initially in the certain geographical based clusters, concluded through this RFB Primary Procurement process: The Company is undertaking the Primary Procurement with a view to concluding Framework Agreements.

The Company is the sole Employer under the Framework Agreement[s].

The Company now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for a Tehsil based Data Collection for Project Impact Evaluation from eligible Bidders to implement data collection activities in the 2000 Revenue Villages spread across 16 tehsils of Punjab whose details are given on Terms of Reference Section of the Procurement Document, covering roughly 1 million households.

The primary objective is to establish the data foundation for the Project’s Impact Evaluation (IE), but the data collected will also support the monitoring of results by PRMSC and provide some key statistics for the project MIS, specifically to support its service delivery performance.

The Framework Agreements to be concluded will be “Single-User.” The Single-User entitled to purchase under the Framework Agreements is the Punjab Rural Municipal Services Company. The Framework Agreements to be concluded will be “Multi-Service Provider”. The selection of a FA Service Provider to be awarded a Call-off Contract will be done through a Secondary Procurement process as defined in the Framework Agreement.

However, the conclusion of a Framework Agreement shall not impose any obligation on the Company to purchase Non-Consulting under a Call-off Contract. The conclusion of the Framework Agreement does not guarantee that a FA Service Provider will be awarded a Call-off Contract.

Bidding will be conducted through International Competitive Procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” [ July 2016 (Revised November 2017 & August 2018) (“Procurement Regulations”) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

An Information Session will be held as per following details to provide a detailed walkthrough of Project, ToR and procurement process: Date: 30 th December 2025 Time: 1200 hours.

(Pakistan Standard Time) Virtual Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81432480382?pwd=6vEvdBjUm5pGENobZoxzKLAemyS4Ea.1 Meeting ID: 814 3248 0382 Passcode: He85aP The Framework Agreements shall be concluded for a Term of Three (03) Years from the commencement date stated in the Framework Agreement. The initial term may be extended by a maximum of two additional years.

The Primary Procurement shall establish a Closed Framework Agreement(s). Bids will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation process set out in the bidding documents. The following weights shall apply for Rated Criteria: 40% for technical and non-price factors, and 60% for Bid cost.

Eligible bidders may obtain further information from the office of the Punjab Rural Municipal Services Company and inspect the bidding document during office hours 0900 to 1700 hours at the address given below. The eligible Bidders may download the Bidding Document at no cost from the website: www.prmsc.punjab.gov.pk/tenders.

Bidders opting to download the Bidding Documents from any of the aforesaid website, shall inform the Punjab Rural Municipal Services Company, in writing at the address given below failing which Company shall not be responsible if they do not receive clarifications and amendments, if any from the Company. Bids must be delivered to the address below by 12th January 2026 at 1500 hours (Pakistan Standard Time).

Electronic Bidding “will not” be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. The outer Bid envelopes marked “ORIGINAL BID”, and the inner envelopes marked “TECHNICAL PART” will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend, at the address below on the due date of submission at 1530 hours (Pakistan Standard Time).

All envelopes marked “SECOND ENVELOPE: FINANCIAL PART” shall remain unopened and will be held in safe custody of the Company until the second public opening.

Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s/bidders’ beneficial ownership, as part of the publication of the conclusion of framework agreement notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form included in the bidding document The address referred to above is: Chief executive officer PRMSC, 5th floor KD Plaza MM Alam Road, Lahore, Pakistan.

(Off): +92(42) 99333613 proc.prmsc@punjab.gov.pk Agency: Local Government and Community Development Department, Government of Punjab Procurement method: Request for Bids Notice type: Invitation for Bids Status: Published Value: 4000000.0 USD