Supply, Installation, Commissioning, and Configuration of ERP, Network, and Hardware’s Resources for Ethiopia Roads Administration
Source: World Bank — Road Sector Support Project
Invitation for Bids (IFB)
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Name of Project: procurement of Design, Supply, Installation, Commissioning, and Configuration of ERP, Network, and Hardware’s Resources for Ethiopian Roads Administration. A turnkey solution is expected.
Credit Number: IDA-53710-ET
IFB No: ET-ERA-321104-GO-RFB
Project: Road Sector Support Project (RSSP) (P131118)
1. The Government of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received a Credit from the International Development Association toward the Road Sector Support Project (RSSP), and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this Credit to payments under the agreement(s) resulting from this IFB No: ET-ERA-321104-GO-RFB.
2. The Ethiopian Roads Administration serves as the implementing agency for the project and now invites sealed bids from eligible Bidders for design, supplying, installation, commissioning, and configuration of highly scalable set of integrated applications to improve corporate services data collection, storage, management, and interpretation mechanism for Ethiopian Roads Administration (ERA). ERA strongly believes that proper and clearly formulated integrated information system, Data management system, IT policy, IT strategy, IT standards and IT governance should be placed to achieve the organizational mission and goals. Among the implemented software items are Road Construction Project Information Management System, Road Information Management System, Financial System, Bridge Management System, Traffic Count System, Archive System, Geographic Information System (GIS), Pavement Management System, Human Resource and Payroll Systems. However, all information systems including messaging and collaboration software’s need to be integrated, updated and modernized to fit the current and future needs of ERA information system.
3. Bidding will be conducted using the International Competitive Bidding (ICB) procedures specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits, edition of January 2011, revised July 2014, and is open to all Bidders eligible as defined in these Guidelines5, that meet the following minimum qualification criteria
Item/No | Qualification Criteria | Mandatory Requirement |
1 | Average Annual Turnover (for last five years) | USD 5 Million |
2 | General Experience | Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in the design, supply and implementation of integrated information systems, Data Management, IT policy, IT strategy, IT standards and IT governance for clients and projects similar in nature, size, and scope to this tender. |
3 | Specific Project Experience
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4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Ethiopian Roads Administration and inspect the bidding documents at the address given below from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. local time from Monday to Thursday, and from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. local time on Friday.
5. A complete set of bidding documents in English language may be purchased by interested bidders on the submission of a written application to the address below and a nonrefundable fee of ETB 1,000 or USD 40. The method of payment shall be direct deposit to ERA’s account in the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia - Sengatera Branch, Account No. 01715-33144600–Swift Code - CBETETAA.
Address: Ethiopian Roads Administration, Engineering Procurement Directorate, 1st floor, Building Block B, Room No. 105, P.O. Box: 1770, Ras Abebe Aregay Street, Ethiopian Roads Administration Head Office. Addis Ababa. Ethiopia. Telephone: 251 -11 551 50 02 or 8561
6. Bids must be delivered on May 11, 2023 at 2:30 P.M to the address below. Late bids will be rejected.
All bids must be accompanied by a bid security of USD 90,000.00 or ETB 4.8 Million for the project. Late bids will be rejected. One Original and five Copies of the bids have to be submitted Bids will be opened immediately after the submission deadline in the presence of Bidders’ representatives who choose to attend at the address below at 2:30 PM.
7. The attention of prospective Bidders is drawn to (i) the fact that they will be required to certify in their bids that all software is either covered by a valid license or was produced by the Bidder itself and (ii) that violations are considered fraud, which can result in ineligibility to be awarded World Bank-financed contracts.
Ethiopian Roads Administration
Director General
Building Block B 2nd Floor, Conference Room
Ras Abebe Aregay Street
P. O. Box 1770
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel. +251-115-185-742 Ext 5742 or 5743
Fax. +251-11-5514866
Eng. Mohammed Abdurahman
eraprodir@gmail.com, epdteam3@gmail.com
