Office equipment for woredas, regions and Federal project implementing units

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods Project

Request for Bids

Goods

(One-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Name of Project: Resilient Landscape and Livelihood Project

Contract Title: Office Equipment

Loan Credit No. / Grant No.: P163383

RFB Reference No.: RLLPNG01/2019

1. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the Resilient Landscape and Livelihood Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds towards the payments under the contract for office equipment: For this contract, the Borrower will 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.

1. Ministry of Agriculture now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for office equipment (Laptop and desktop computers, printers, photocopy machines, external hard disks, scanners, tablet computers and UPS, as indicated below:

1. 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” dated July 2016, revised November 2017 (Procurement Regulations), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.
2.  Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from Ministry of Agriculture, Ato Kinfe Bekabile, email: kinfumz@yahoo.com, Senior Procurement  Specialist, and inspect the bidding documents during office hours 9:00 AM to 12:00 P.M and 2:00PM to 5:00 PM at the address given bellow.
3. A complete set of bidding documents in English may be purchased by interested eligible bidders up on the submission of the written application to the address below and upon payment of nonrefundable fee of Birr 100.00 or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency. The method of payment should be cash.
4. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before February 14, 2019 at 2:00P.M. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the bidder's designated representatives and anyone who choose to attend at the address below on February 14, 2019 at 2:15 PM.
5. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security as indicated above No. 2 or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency in the form of CPO or unconditional bank guarantee. Insurance guarantee is not acceptable. .
6. 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. 
7. The address referred to above is:  Ministry of Agriculture, Procurement Case Team

Ministry of Agriculture

Building B, Floor 1, Room No 1-2

CMC Road behind Geological Survey

P.O. Box 62347, Tell: +251011646-13-00/011646-1242/0911-193610

Addis Ababa Ethiopia