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Invitation for Bid
Name of Country: Ethiopia
Name of Project: Productive Safety Net Program IV (PSNP 4)
Procurement of 30,000 MT of Wheat Grain (ET-MANR-225343-GO-RFB)
Credit #: IDA55400
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) has received financing from the International Development Association (IDA) and other donor partners toward the cost of the Productive Safety Net Program 4 (PSNP 4) and intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments under the contract for the procurement of 30,000 MT of wheat grain.
The Public Procurement and Property Disposal Service (PPPDS) on behalf of the Food Security Coordination Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture now invites eligible bidders for the supply of 30,000 MT wheat grain.
Bidding will be conducted through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) procedures specified in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits January 2011, Revised July 2014 and is open to all bidders from Eligible Source Countries as defined in the Guidelines. Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM local time during official working days.
Qualification requirements include:
1. Financial capacity
- The bidder must demonstrate that its average annual turnover over for the last 3 years (2017-20) is not less than $ 13.5 Million.
- The bidder must demonstrate access to, or availability of, financial resources such as liquid assets and lines of credit (with a letter of commitment from a reputed Bank acceptable to the purchaser) as evidence, other than any contractual advance payments to meet the cash flow requirement of not less than US$3,000,000.
- The bidder will also have to submit audited balance sheets and income statements or, if not required by the law of the bidder's country, other financial statements acceptable to the purchaser, for the last three years (2017-20) to demonstrate that Bidder's net worth calculated as the difference between total assets and total liabilities is positive in each of the three years.
2. Similar Experience
The Bidder shall furnish documentary evidence to demonstrate that it meets specific experience under supply of wheat grain contracts, at least 3 contracts within the last 5 years each with a quantity of at least 24,000 MT of wheat grains per contract, that have been successfully and substantially completed.
Additional details are provided in the Bidding Documents.
A complete set of Bidding Documents in English may be obtained by interested bidders on the submission of a written Application to the address below.
Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before 20 April 2021 at 10:00 AM local time. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders’ representatives who choose to attend in person at the address below on 20 April 2021 at 10:30 AM local time.
The addressed referred to above is:
The Public Procurement and Property Disposal Service
King George Avenue, 2nd compound,
Ministry of Finance, Block no. 5, 2nd floor, room no. 201/ 2010
Attention: Procurement Directorate
Tel: No: +251111223722/40
Addis Ababa,
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