Ethiopia Economic Opportunities Program

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia Economic Opportunities Program

COUNTRY: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

NAME OF PROJECT:  Ethiopia Economic Opportunities Program

PRACTICE AREA: Trade & Competitiveness

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

PROGRAM ID:  P163829

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has applied for financing in the amount of US$ 270 Million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Ethiopia Economic Opportunities Program, 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 project. This project will be jointly financed by the Department for International Development, (DFID) Government of United Kingdom.

The program will be financed through a hybrid of the Investment Project Financing (IPF) and Program for Result (PforR) instruments. This General Procurement Notice (GPN) applies to the IPF component of the program.

The IPF component of the program will support the government in fulfilling the industrialization and refugee agendas under the Economic Opportunities Program and will mainly finance the procurement of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services that cover program implementation support to EIC (PCU staffing, policy study, country wide MIS architecture, training and project preparation), Operations Management capacity support to ARRA (office equipment, hard ware and software system for data collection, analysis and monitoring refugees and asylums data) developing performance tracking and management systems for EPP.

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 on Ethiopian Herald Newspaper.

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 program, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the address below:

Ethiopian Investment Commission

Attention:               Procurement Division

P. O. Box:               2313

Tel:                            + 251-115510033

Fax:                           +251-115514396

Email:                       ethioinvest@investethiopia.gov.et

Web Site:               www.investethiopia.gov.et