The Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office now invite sealed bids from eligible bidders for the construction of Lopho Up-Grading SSI Project.

INVITATION FOR BID (IFB)

Construction works of Lopho Up-Grading Irrigation Project Procurement

Reference Number: ET-OROMIA-GULISO-FSRP- 517949-CW-RFQ/26

The Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office intends to apply parts of allocated budget of Food System Resilience Program financed by the World Bank (IDA) toward the cost of the Construction of Lopho Up-Grading SSI Project in Oromia National Regional State, West Wollega Zone, Guliso Woreda.

The Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office now invite sealed bids from eligible bidders for the construction of Lopho Up-Grading SSI Project. The names, locations, and amounts of bid security for this construction project is/are indicated in the table below.

1.       The Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office now invites eligible contractors Category WWC to submit sealed bids for providing the necessary labor, material, and equipment for the construction and completion of the above project/Projects. Invited Bidders should fulfill the following requirements & other appropriate documentary evidence demonstrating the bidder's compliance requested in SBD:

•         VAT registration certificate and TIN certificate.

•         Valid trade license or business organization registration certificate.

•         Valid tax clearance certificate for 2018 E.C.

•         Renewed Construction License for 2018 E.C.

2.       Bidding will be conducted through a National Competitive Bidding (NCB) procedure as specified in the World Bank's Procurement Regulations and the bidding procedure to be followed is a Single- Stage Two-envelope procedure.

3.       A complete set of bidding documents in English Language may be purchased by interested Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a non-refundable fee of Ethiopian Birr 1500 (One Thousand Five Hundred ETB) starting from the date announced on a newspaper at working hours. The method of payment will be depositing the Money in Account No.1000098281545 and take a receipt from Woreda Finance/revenue Office and take the SBD from Ayira Guliso Finance and Economic Office.

4.       Bidders are required to submit bid documents in one Stage and Two envelopes procedure containing the technical and financial proposals separately enclosed as follow

i.                     The original and two Photo copies of the Technical document shall be placed in a separate sealed envelope wax sealed marked as 'TECHNICAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL, TECHNICAL DOCUMENT COPY 1, and TECHNICAL DOCUMENT COPY 2,' and then placed the three separated documents in a one large outer envelope wax sealed marked as TECHNICAL DOCUMENT. All envelope must be stamped, wax sealed and signed bya bidder and all other information shall be clearly marked.

ii.                   The original and two Photo copies of the Financial offers shall be placed in a separate seal enveloped and wax sealed marked as 'FINANCIAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL, FINANCIAL DOCUMENT COPY 1, and FINANCIAL DOCUMENT COPY 2,' and then placed the three documents in a one large outer envelope wax sealed marked as FINANCIAL DOCUMENT. Finally, the TECHNICAL DOCUMENT AND FINANCIAL DOCUMENT should be in one mother envelope. All envelope must be stamped, wax sealed and signed by a bidder and all other information shall be clearly marked.

iii.                 Bid security in separate envelope then must insert in the original technical document and to be opened only in presence of tender committee.

iv.                 The committee assigned by the client will evaluate the qualification of the bidders based on the basis of their responsiveness to the bid document, by applying the evaluation criteria, sub criteria and assigned to the criteria in the bid data sheet or BDS. A bidder will be rejected at this stage if it doesn't respond to the tender document or fails to achieve the minimum technical criteria indicated in the tender document.

v.                   Only financial offers of those bidders who fulfill the must meet evaluation requirements/criteria will be opened. The client shall address the financial opening date and time to the bidders.

vi.                 Any attempt of submission forged (fake) document and/or indication of financial offer on the technical document shall result in rejection of the bid. The client shall not bear any responsibility for misplacement of 'TECHNICAL DOCUMENT' in 'THE FINANCIAL OFFER DOCUMENT' envelope or vice versa, which result in the rejection of the bidder.

5.       Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 25 February, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security indicated in the above table. Late bids will be rejected. Technical offers, and Bid security of the bidders will be opened by Woreda Technical Committee in the presence of bidders' representatives who choose to attend at the address below on the same date, 25 February 2026, at 10:30 A.M.

6.       A bid security in the form of a Cash Payment Order (CPO) or an Unconditional Bank Guarantee must be submitted as stated above, in the name of The Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office.

7.       Any contractor who has termination history with the bureau, zonal offices and other regional sectors and with bad performance or warning letter (proved) in their past contractual period, the client has full right to reject those contractors during technical evaluation.

8.       Absence of any above requirements result automatically rejection from bid.

9.       The Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids and to annul the bidding process at any time, without thereby incurring any liability to bidders.

The Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office

Tel. +251 92 041 0392 / +251 93 083 6618

Guliso Woreda, Guliso Town

West Wollega, Guliso Woreda Agriculture and Land Office