Tender Description
Project P179284 — Lao PDR Climate Resilient Road Connectivity Improvement Project · Method: Individual Consultant Selection · Consulting services · REQUEST FOR EXPRESS OF INTEREST INTERNATIONAL ROAD SAFETY AUDIT CONSULTANT TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROAD SAFETY AUDITS, REFERENCE NO. CRRCIP-IC-017 The Government of Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (GoL) has received financing support from the World Bank’s (WB) International Development Association (IDA) to implement the Lao PDR Climate Resilient Road Connectivity Improvement Project (CRRCIP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services. The proposed of Climate Resilient Road Connectivity Improvement Project (CRRCIP) seeks to build about 300 km of District Roads and Rural Roads in the poor districts of Khammouan, Savannakhet, and Saravan provinces. The MPWT in consultation with the DPWT of these three provinces had identified a long list of proposed roads. About 100 km of roads in each of the provinces will be selected from the roads in this longlist through a prioritization exercise based on aspects which include: (i) passing through a poor district – based on poverty headcount, (ii) criticality of the link for climate resiliency of the network, (iii) connectivity to agricultural areas, (iv) population served by the road, (v) traffic level, (vi) not passing through environmentally sensitive areas, and (vii) no resettlement of more than 200 people (or 40 households) and/or more than 40 households severely affected with 10 percent of productive assets owned by individual household lost in all three target provinces. The proposed project provides connectivity to National Roads and access to the east-west economic corridor between Vietnam and Thailand thus increasing market linkages and contributing towards greater economic gains to the local communities. The CRRCIP now intends to engage a part-time, suitably qualified and experienced individual consultant, for the position of International Road Safety Audit. The Consultant shall work with the Department of Transaport, Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) and undertake tasks under Component 2 of the Project, as described in the Terms of Reference (ToR). The full ToR for the assignment can be found at the following website: https://ppmd.mof.gov.la/opportunities/com,
- Country
- Laos
- Published
- 26 May 2026
- Closing date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Procedure
- Individual Consultant Selection