Enhancing Shared Prosperity through Equitable Services

Source: World Bank — Enhancing Shared Prosperity through Equitable Services

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Country: Ethiopia

Name of Program: Enhancing Shared Prosperity through Equitable Services (ESPES)-   Additional Financing

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Grant No/Credit No.:  IDA Grant D229-ET & Credit No. 6131-ET

Project ID No.:  P151432

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing in the amount of USD 100 Million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Program-for-Results Enhancing Shared Prosperity through Equitable Services (ESPES)-Additional Financing, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, non –consulting services and consulting services to be procured under this Program  

The Program will include the following Components and Sub Components:-

Component 1: System Strengthening and Sector Strengthening (US$ 26.7 million):                          

                       Sub-Component 1.1. System Strengthening

                       Sub-Component 1.2. Sector Support

Component 2: Citizens’ Engagement (US$ 28.6 million):

                        Sub-Component 2.1. Financial Transparency & Accountability (FTA)

                        Sub-Component 2.2: Grievance Redress Mechanisms (GRM)

                        Sub-Component 2.3. Social Accountability Project

      Component 3: Capacity Building and M&E (US$44.7 million):

                         Sub-Component 3.1: Strengthening the Capacity of CSA

                         Sub-Component 3.2: Budget to be allocated

                         Sub-Component 3.3: Capacity building, Program Monitoring & Supervision

                          Sub-Component 3.4: Program Management, Continuous Audit and Verification

The program includes the following goods, and non-consultancy service and consultancy service under each component are depicted underneath

1. Consultancy Service

• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for the Study on the move towards International Public Sectors Accounting Standard (IPSAS)
• Conduct assessment and Identify gap (including procurement audit gap and training) by a consulting Firm and prepare guideline to address the gap,
• Recruiting Individual Consultant to support the revision of Legal Framework including SBDs
• Recruit a consulting firm that undertake Pilot Survey on Education Service Delivery (Phase 2),
• Recruitment of consulting firm  that provide a Consultancy service of Updating WaSH /MIS
• Undertaking Impact assessment of Financial Transparency and Accountability/FTA/ Initiative.
• Conduct feasibility Assessment based on the implementation of Amhara Region's "HelloGov", Mobile E-Complaints Handling System to scale up the System to other Regions
• Selection and Employment of Consultant for the Study on Grievances Redressing Mechanisms (GRM) effectiveness
• selection and employment of a consulting firm that conduct and to enhance the functions of Agency for Civil Societies Organizations (CSO),
• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for Household Consumption and Expenditure & WMS - Consultancy Services on Technical issues of sample design, questionnaire development, testing and estimation procedures for the HCE and HIC
• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for Trade In Service Survey - Consultancy Services on Technical issues of questionnaire development, testing, sample design, methodological soundness and estimation procedures for Trade in service
• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for Construction Price Index - Consultancy Services on Technical issues of estimation and analytical procedures for the compilation of Consumer Price Index
• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for Agricultural Census Methodology Improvement - Consultancy Services on Technical issues of enumeration planning, tool development, enumeration manual and control forms, sample design and estimation procedures for the improvement of Agricultural Census Methodology
• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for Data Access, Dissemination and Use (Data Dissemination, Implementation and Policy Review) - Consultancy Services on Technical issues of easy, versatile, fast and user friendly dissemination, access and use of data
• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for User Satisfaction Survey - Consultancy Services on sample design, tool development, Data Collection, field operation, quality control and estimation procedures
• Selection & employment of consultancy service providing firm for Preparation of statistical calendar - Consultancy service on what should be the content of the statistical calendar, its revision and feedback procedure both from the producers and users side

1. Goods and Non-consultancy services include

• Procure MIS Equipment for KPI Implementation at 9 regions for 3 basic sector bureaus in each region (Total 27 Sites) for  Federal Public Procurement & Prosperity Administration (FPPPA)
• . Procurement of  Offices and IT  materials  to  three regions(Gamebela, Afar and Somali  Ethics And Anti-corruption Commissions
• Procurement of Office Equipment & Computers for Ministry of Agriculture information system (AGMIS)
• Procurement of Computers and Servers for the Ethiopian Roads Authority /ERA/ MIS system
• Recruiting printing service providing Firm to print Templates to be disseminated on Budget expenditure, basic service delivery standard  information
• procurement of Mass media for the dissemination of innovative activities of Budget, expenditure, basic service delivery standard information at the Regional level
• Procurement of printing services for the templates to be disseminated in all woredas/districts (under the audit and procurement information disclosure
• procurement of TV& Radio /broadcasting services by producing programs  for  Disseminating different messages and Promotion about Good Governance & Grievance Redress Mechanism
• supply, delivery and installation of Ethiopian institute of Ombudsman /EIO/ Network System
• Procurement of 33  Vehicles for EIO, OFAG and MOF offices
• -Procurement of IT and office Equipment for. MoF, BoFEC and For Woreda finance bureaus) 

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) (Procurement Regulations), and is open to all eligible firms and individuals  as defined in the Procurement Regulations. After project negotiations, 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 subject to open international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business online, on the World Bank’s external website and the Ethiopian Heard newspaper. No Prequalification/Initial Selection of suppliers and contractors will be required under this program.

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

FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA, MINISTRY OF FINANCE (MOF)

CHANNEL ONE PROGRAMS COORDINATING DIRECTORATE

ADDRESS: AREDA SUB CITY, WOREDA 11/12, MOF

MAIN BUILDING, 6TH FLOOR, ROOM NO.621, SIDIST KILO

 IN FRONT OF LION CAGE PARK, P.O. BOX 1905, 1037,

EMAIL: copcuproc@gmail.com/aberag11@gmail.com,

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA