FOR SUPPLY, IMPLEMENTATION AND SUPPORT OF A TURNKEY SOLUTION FOR THE CREDIT INFORMATION CENTER FOR THE NATIONAL BANK OF ETHIOPIA

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia - Financial Sector Capacity Building Project

For Supply, Implementation and Support of a turnkey solution for the Credit Information Center for the National Bank of Ethiopia

IFB No 5/TSB-CIC/H239-ET

1. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopiahas received a GRANT from the International Development Association toward the cost of Financial Sector Capacity Building Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this Grantto payments under the agreement resulting from this IFB5/TSB-CIC/H239-ET:

Supply, implementation and support of a turn key solution for the Credit Information Centerfor the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE).

2. The national Bank of Ethiopia serves as the implementing agency for the project andnow invites sealed bids from eligible Bidders for supply and Implementation of A turn key Credit Information System Solution, including the key information technologies, equipment, integration,training and technical support.

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 and is open to all Bidders from eligible source countries as defined in the Guidelines⁵ that meet the following minimum qualification criteria

a) Bids must be for the entire Credit Information System

b) The components of the Credit Information System solution that will be proposed must be fully developed. For ready made packages, the NBE may require the full functionality including necessary integration to be demonstrated as part of the proposal evaluation process;

c) The Credit Information System or similar information management systems should preferably be already installed and operational as an integrated functional unit in at least one country, preferably in a similar environment to Ethiopia

d) Bidders must be able to supply and support the necessary hardware torun the proposed solution;

e) The Bidder must have on its current staff at least one key person ineach of the following specialist areas involved in the project:

i)Application software design and development

ii)System integration

iii)Credit Information Center Development expert

iv)Information and communication Technologies (ICT)

v)Training of non technical end users

f) Each key person should meet the following minimum requirements:

i) Five years of relevant experience, with the last five years in the particular specialist area;

ii) The last three years of industry experience in a management/team leadership capacity.

g) The project manager nominated by the bidder should have at least ten years relevant industry experience, the last five of which should have included project management responsibility for staff over extended periods involving the development, implementation, operation and support of integrated banking and payment systems.

h) The bidder annual sales turnover should be more than $ 1million and audited financial report for recent two years must be presented

4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from National Bank of Ethiopia and inspect the bidding documents at the address at the address given below from 8:00 am to 12:00 and 2:00pm-5:00 pm (local time) Monday-Friday.

5. A complete set of bidding documents in English may be purchased by interested Bidders on the submission of a written application to the address as of August 31, 2009 and upon payment ofa nonrefundable fee of Birr 400.00 or in any freely convertible currency. The method of payment will be cash or cashier's check or direct deposits to National Bank of Ethiopia. The bidding documents will be sent by hand or airmail or courier. Electronic version in polf may be sent by email upon request, after payment of the fee.

6. Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before October 15,2009 at 2:00pm. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security of not less than 2 present of the contract price in birr or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of the Bidders' representatives who choose to attend at the address below at 3:pm October, 15, 2009.

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 and (ii) that violations are considered fraud, which is, among other remedies, punishable by potential blacklisting from participation in future World Bank-financed procurement.

ADDRESS:

Mr. Mathewos Shamo

Project Officer, National Bank of Ethiopia,

Financial Sector Capacity Building project

(NBE-FSCBP)

Inside National Bank of Ethiopia

(Old Building, First floor)

E-mail: nbewb@ethionet.et and/or

nbewbn@ethionet.et

Website: www.nbe. gov.et

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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