Engineering Services for Rural Roads Rehabilitation (ES3R)

Liberias Farm to Market Rural Roads (F2MRR) activity is allied to the objectives of the Feed the Future (FTF) initiative, which is a U.S. government initiative, which aims to address the root causes of global hunger by sustainably increasing agricultural productivity.

F2MRR will provide infrastructure investment in the rehabilitation of rural farmto-market roads to support the following: USAID /Liberia FTF program Food and Enterprise Development (FED), Capacity development for routine maintenance systems within the Government of Liberia (GOL), Capacity development of Ministry of Public Works (MPW) rural roads engineers and local A & E firms; and Development of alternative low volume road pavement pilot projects, standards and design specifications.

Within F2MRR, ES3R will be an implementing mechanism which will undertake the following objectives: Objective 1: Provide construction oversight for three (3) local contracts for the rehabilitation of a total of 83.5 kilometers farm-to-market roads in Bong, Lofa, and Nimba counties from 2013 to 2015.

Produce engineering designs and construction documents for the 450 kilometers farm-to-market roads in Bong, Lofa, Nimba, and Grand Bassa counties to be rehabilitated in 2015 to 2018.

Objective 3: Training and pre-qualification of five (5) local architect-engineer firms capable of providing oversight for road rehabilitation activities by2015.