Z -- USAID/Armenia Heat Assisted Education Program

The objective of the proposed eighteen-month program is to provide reliable heating systems and lavatories to improve the conditions in the Armenian schools. Assistance will be provided to targeted schools countrywide. The list of the targeted schools will be provided in the RFP.The program has the following two major interrelated components targeted at improving the social and health services for the students of the targeted schools: 1. Rehabilitation/Construction of the school heating systems. The contractor is expected to design and construct heating system for each school based on the local technical conditions (availability of natural gas supply, old boiler house, etc.). In case the natural gas supply will not be available to the school the contractor should design and install a heating system equipped with liquid fuel or other fossil fuel fired burners. 2. Rehabilitation/Renovation of school lavatories. Inside lavatories will have to be renovated in those schools that have built-in sewage system. However, there are a number of schools that do not have a built-in sewerage system. In those cases the contractor will have to install toilet facilities outside of the school building and connect them to the closest sewage system.