Publication date: 05 September 2024
Country: African Union.
Name of Project: Africa Centres for Disease Control Support Program to Combat Current and Future Public Health Threats Project (P178633)
Contract Title: Supply and Delivery of Electric Vehicles for Africa CDC
Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: IDA-E1110
RFB Reference No.: ET-AUC-441382-GO-RFB
- The Africa Union has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Africa Centres for Disease Control Support Program to Combat Current and Future Public Health Threats Project (P178633) and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract[1]for Supply and Delivery of Vehicles for Africa CDC.
2. The African Centres for Disease Control and Prevision (Africa CDC) now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for supply and delivery of electric vehicles in five lots, details provided in the bidding document, at Africa CDC, in Addis Ababa within 90 calendar days after contract signing date. Margin of preference is not applicable for this contract.
3. Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers July 2016 Revised September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.
4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from African CDC and inspect the bidding document during office hours from 8.00AM to 5.00PM from Monday to Friday at the address given below.
5. The bidding document in English may be requested by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below. The solicitation document will be sent by email upon request.
6. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 4 October 2024, 2:00pm Addis Ababa time. Electronic Bidding will be permitted and instruction for submission of bid documents in clearly indicated in the Bid Data Sheet, ITB 22.1. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened online and the link for opening will be shared to Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend. The link for online bidding shall be shared to all who obtained the solicitation document from Africa CDC, by email and one day before the opening.
7. All Bids must be accompanied by a “Bid-Securing Declaration,”
8. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document.
9. The address(es) referred to above is (are):
Africa Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention,
Supply Chain Division
Administration Directorate
Lafto Square, Haile Garment,
Africa CDC Office, A2 Tower, 7th floor, Room No. 708 E-mail: Tender@africacdc.org and Zemenua@africacdc.org (Please submit your request for clarification to both email as per the instruction provided in the Bid Data Sheet)
[1] Substitute “contracts” where Bids are called concurrently for multiple contracts. Add a new para. 3 and renumber paras 3 – 8 as follows: “Bidders may Bid for one or several contracts, as further defined in the Bidding document. Bidders wishing to offer discounts in case they are awarded more than one contract will be allowed to do so, provided those discounts are included in the Letter of Bid.”