The Ministry of Agriculture now re invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Procurement of Cereal Grain Processing Machines

Amendment of Request for Bids 

(Two-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Ethiopia

Name of Project: Ethiopia Food System Resilience Program

Contract Title: Supply and Installation of Liquid Nitrogen Plant with spare for 5 centres

Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: IDA Credit-71560-ET

RFB Reference No.: ET-MOA-394161-GO-RFB

1. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the for Ethiopia Food System Resilience Program, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Procurement of Supply and Installation of Liquid Nitrogen Plant with spare at 5 centers. For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank's Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing, except for those payments, which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit.
2. The Ministry of Agriculture now re invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Procurement of Cereal Grain Processing Machines as current republished through the World Bank on July 25, 2025: -

The post-qualification criteria include Specific Experience:

• The Bidder shall demonstrate that it has successfully completed at least two contracts within the last five years prior to bid submission deadline, each with a value of at least USD 1,000,000.00 or single contract with a value of at least US$ 2 Million that have been successfully and substantially completed and that are similar in nature and complexity to the Goods and Related Services under the Contract

The detailed and complete qualification requirements are provided in the Bidding Document

3. 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" Procurement in Investment Project Financing, Goods, Works, Non-Consulting, and Consulting Services', Six Edition February 2025, and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.
4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Ministry of Agriculture, Procurement Directorate, and inspect the bidding document during office hours from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm from Mondays to Thursdays, and on Fridays from 8:30 am to 11:30 am and 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm local time. 8:30 AM to 5:30PM at the address given below.
5. The bidding document in English may be purchased by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a non-refundable fee of ETB 1,000 (One Thousand Birr Only) or equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency. The method of payment will be in cash/ cashier's check, Payment to account No.1000009144009 with a presentation of deposit slip in person and inspect the bidding document during office hours from 8:30AM to 5:30 PM at the address given below: Bidders' who wish to have the bid document delivered to their address by a courier service pay an additional amount of ETB 5,000.00 or equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency for courier service charge or send a prepaid courier service coupon to the purchaser address below. However, the purchaser shall not be responsible for a loss or delay in the delivery of the mail and shall not entertain requests for extension on account of such delay
6. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before September 23,2025 at 10:00 A.M. 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 September 23, 2025 immediately after the bid submission time deadline as given in the above. All envelopes marked "Second Envelope: Financial Part" shall remain unopened and will be held in safe custody of the Purchaser until the second public opening.
7. All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of ETB 1,000,000.00 (One Million. Birr Only) or equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency.
8. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder's beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document.
9. The address referred to above is:

Address: Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Procurement Executive Office,

Attention: Ato Dereje Gedilu, FSRP-Senior Procurement

Specialist Tel. +251 91 166 8625

Street address: CMC Road, behind Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration of Ethiopia

Floor/ Room number: Block A, 2nd Floor, Room number 2-1

Web Address: http://www.moa.gov.et (http://www.moa.gov.et/)

City: Addis Ababa, Ethiopian

Ministry of Agriculture