Urban Productive Safety Net and Jobs Project

Source: World Bank — Urban Productive Safety Net and Jobs Project

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

COUNTRY: Ethiopia

NAME OF PROJECT: Urban Productive Safety Net and Job Project [UPSNJP]

SECTOR: Social Protection

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Grant No. D732-ET

Project ID No. 169943

The Government of Ethiopia has received financing in the amount of US$ 400 Million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Urban Productive Safety Net and Job Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, related services and consulting services to be procured under this project. This project will be jointly financed by the Government of Ethiopia.[1]

The project will include the following 5 components: component 1- Expand the Urban Productive Safety Net to improve the urban environment, component 2- Foster Urban Youth Employment, component 3- Strengthen Social Assistance and Services for the Urban Poor and Destitute, component 4 - Institutional Strengthening, Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation and component 5- Contingent Emergency Response.

The procurement for the project to be procured under open international market approach will include the following:

Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s procurement regulations for IPF borrowers July 2016 Revised November 2017 and August 2018” (Procurement Regulations), and is open to all eligible bidders  as defined in the Regulation. The World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection.

Specific procurement notices for contracts to be bid under the World Bank’s Open International market approach will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business and in widely circulated local newspapers.

Interested eligible firms and individuals who would wish to be considered for the provision of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services for the above-mentioned project, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the address below:

Name of the implementing agencies: Federal Urban Job Creation and Food Security Agency (“JOBFSA”)

Attention to: Gebre Meskel Chala

Position: Director General, Federal Urban Job Creation and Food Security Agency

Street Address: Mozambique Street

Postal Code: 43161

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tele: +251 115 575028

Fax: +251 115 575008

Email: gmchalla@gmail.com

Web site address:  www.ujcfs.et