Consulting Services to Promote Feedlots Development — Food Systems Resilience Project (Kenya)

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST (CONSULTING SERVICES – FIRMS SELECTION) Country: Kenya Name of project: Food Systems Resilience Project Project No: P177816 Credit No.: 7328-KE, 7327-KE Assignment Title: Consulting services to promote development of feedlots Reference No. KE-MOALF-533446-CS-QCBS 1. The Government of Kenya has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Food Systems Resilience Project (FSRP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

• The consulting services (“the Services”) include consultancy services to promote development of feedlots for a period of nine (9) months. 3. The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be found at the following website: www.kilimo.go.ke 4.

The State Department for Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development now invites eligible consulting firms (“Consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services. The shortlisting criteria are: a) Core business and years in business: The firm shall be registered/incorporated as a consulting firm with core business in livestock production systems development and market assessment or related fields for a period of at least five (5) years. b) Relevant Experience: The firm shall demonstrate as having successfully executed and completed at least two assignments on livestock systems development and market assessment of similar nature, scale, complexity and in a similar operating environment in the last five (5) years.

Details of similar assignments, Name and address of the client, scope, value, and period should be provided and submitted. Expression of Interest should include enumeration of these similar past assignments. c) Technical and Managerial Capacity: The firm shall demonstrate as having the requisite technical capacity including relevant equipment, tools, software and managerial capacity to undertake the assignment in the submitted company profile(s). Key Experts will not be evaluated at the shortlisting stage.

• The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 revised Fifth Edition September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. 6.

Consultants may associate with other firms to enhance their qualifications, but should indicate clearly whether the association is in the form of a joint venture and/or a sub-consultancy. In the case of a joint venture, all the partners in the joint venture shall be jointly and severally liable for the entire contract, if selected. 7.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS) method set out in the Procurement Regulations. 8. Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 0900 to 1700 hours East African Time (EAT) from Monday to Friday excluding lunch hour (1300 to 1400 hours EAT) and public holidays.

• Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by e-mail) by 18th February, 2026 at 1100 hours EAT and be deposited in the tender box clearly marked State Department for Agriculture located at Kilimo house main reception - Ground floor, Cathedral Road Nairobi or be sent to info@fsrp.go.ke and clearly marked “Consulting services to promote development of feedlots’’. The Principal Secretary State Department for Agriculture Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development Website: www.kilimo.go.ke E-mail: info@fsrp.go.ke Tel. +254-020-2715466 Head Supply Chain Management For Principal Secretary