Individual Consulting – African Union Commission

Original title: INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT TO SUPPORT SAP FICO ABAP ENHANCEMENTS

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October 22, 2026

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Published on October 6, 2026 at 12:00 AMModified on October 8, 2026 at 01:02 AM

Key information

Type: IT & Telecom
Location: Ethiopia
Deadline: October 22, 2026 at 12:00 AMClosed
Estimated Value: Not disclosed
Language of Notice: English

What is this tender about?

Individual Consulting – African Union Commission is an it & telecom procurement opportunity published by Africa Union Commission in Ethiopia on October 6, 2026. Submissions closed on October 22, 2026. 1 official document is attached below.

Make changes to the budget execution report as per business requirements. • Develop urgent PBFA reports as per business requirements. • Preparation of Test scripts for Unit and Integration Testing. • Lead Business users in Unit and Integration Testing. • Preparation of User Guides, Test Scripts (Unit/Integration), Configuration and Technical documentation. • Conduct and coordinate Super Users and business users training. • Conduct and Lead / Guide Cut-over activities before Go-live of Travel Management DSA calculation functionality. • Conduct Training / Knowledge transfer / Hand Over to the in-house SAP Technical Team. The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment are attached to this Request for Expression of Interest. The African Union Commission now invites eligible individuals (“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: Education Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Computer Science /Engineering or related discipline Certification and Experience Minimum Qualifications • SAPCertified ABAP Consultant with 5–7 years of professional experience in SAP ABAP development. • Participation in at least two fullcycle SAP implementation, upgrade, or enhancement projects. • Demonstrated experience supporting FICO, SCM, Travel Management modules through custom development and workflow development. Core Technical Skills (ABAP Development) • Advanced ABAP Programming• Classical and Object-Oriented ABAP
RICEF development (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms) • Enhancement Framework Expertise• BADIs, User Exits, Customer Exits, Enhancement Points • Data Dictionary & Core Development• Tables, structures, views, search helps, lock objects
Performance tuning and code optimization • Interface Development• IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, Web Services (SOAP/REST) • Form Technologies• SMARTFORMS
SAPscript (optional)
Adobe Forms (added advantage) Workflow Development Skills • Custom Workflow Design & Development• Creation of workflow templates for Finance, SCM, and Travel processes
Multilevel approval workflows
Deadline monitoring, agent determination, and rule configuration • Workflow Configuration• Event linkage, task creation, container elements, bindings
Integration with organizational management (OM) • Troubleshooting & Optimization• Workflow logs, error handling, performance tuning
Enhancing workflows using BADIs and custom methods Web Dynpro for ABAP Skills • Development of custom Web Dynpro components, views, and controllers
UI logic, context mapping, and FPM (Floorplan Manager) exposure
Integration with backend logic and workflow tasks. Additional Technical Competencies • Screen Programming• Module pool programming
Custom transactions and dialog programming • Object-Oriented Design• Class-based development, interfaces, inheritance 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 November 2020 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultant selection method set out in the Procurement Regulations. Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours i.e. 0900 to 1700 hours. Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by e-mail) by 22 October 2026 African Union Commission, Attn: Head of Supply Chain Management Division Building C, 3rd Floor, P.O Box 3243, Roosevelt Street Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251 (0) 11 551 7700 – Ext 4305 Fax: +251 (0) 11 551 0442; +251 11-551-0430 E-mails: tender@africanunion.org TERMS OF REFERENCE TERMS OF REFERENCE SAP FICO ABAP ENHANCEMENTS 1. Introduction.. 5 2. Project Background.. 5 3. AU CURRENT PAINS AND GAPS. 7 4. MERITS OF IMPLEMENTING REQUIRED FUNCTIONALITY.. 7 5. OBJECTIVE OF THE SERVICE. 7 6. SCOPE OF SERVICES AND TASKS. 7 7. DELIVERABLES FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. 8 8. QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS. 9 9. EVALUATION AND QUALIFICATION CRITERIA.. 10 10. TIMEFRAME AND SCHEDULE OF DELIVERABLES. 11 11. CLIENT INPUT AND REPORTING.. 12 12. Down Payments. 13 • Introduction The African Union (AU) was established as a unique Pan African continental body, charged with spearheading Africa’s rapid integration and sustainable development by promoting unity, solidarity, cohesion and cooperation among the peoples of Africa and African States as well as developing a New Partnership worldwide. Its Headquarters is located in Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. The African Union Commission (AUC) is the secretariat of the AU, which is the key organ playing a central role in the day-to-day management of the AU. Amongst other mandates, the AUC represents the Union and defends its interests; elaborates draft common positions of the Union; prepares strategic plans and studies for the consideration of the Executive Council; elaborates, promotes, coordinates and harmonizes the programmes and policies of the Union with those of the Regional Economic Commissions (RECs) and ensures the mainstreaming of gender in all programmes and activities of the Union. • Project Background In 2008, AUC embarked on automation project and selected the SAP software to bring efficiency, transparency and accountability in business processes and information management. The project went live at the AUC in 2009, and with addition of several modules over the years, the system has since been rolled out to over 45 ROs/LOs and 8 Organs. Currently, AUC runs SAP ERP ECC 6, Enhancement Package Level 7 (EHP7) system having implemented the following key modules; • Financial and Controlling (FI/CO) including Fund Management, Treasury Management, Bank Communication Management. • Human Resource (Payroll, Time Management, Personnel Administration, Organization Management, & Personnel Development)
Material Management (Purchasing and Inventory Management)
Travel Management
Employee and Manager Self Service
Electronic Document Workflow (SAP Document Access solution)
Integration with OpenText 10 for Document Archival
Integration to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting system
Integration with SAP Governance, Risk & Compliance system (GRC) for user management
Interface with other in-house applications e.g. Medical System, AMERT, The diagram below depicts the current SAP landscape alongside AUC’s vision by 2026/2027. Despite the numerous strides made with the implementation of the modules above, the current system has some gaps and challenges in terms of system utility, process integration, data issues, reporting and inflexibility to some needs of the organization. In cognizance of these gaps and in seeking to fully leverage the use of SAP within the Commission, there is therefore need to enhance/upgrade the ERP to a more robust system that will better meet the current and future needs. To date, the approach to automation at the AUC has focused on the implementation of point solutions that do not adequately address the present needs of AU Business Units, ROs and Policy Organs as a whole. The solutions provided have essentially automated the existing manual processes rather than follow best practices. Lack of funds to adopt new SAP technologies has led to heavy customization of processes such as travel, financial management and reporting thus restricting the value that SAP can provide. Further, inadequate capacity building has rendered the ERP unit as a fire-fighter on day-to-day business support rather than the unit focusing on innovation to provide new solutions. There is great potential to maximize utility of SAP through varied and targeted training of both business users and the ERP team members. • AU CURRENT PAINS AND GAPS The AU has deployed the SAP Travel Management Module without the DSA calculation component resulting in DSA being manually calculated by excel by the respective payment processing Division of the Directorate of Finance. The same also affects the imprest retirement process. SAP users are not able to generate financial statements from SAP system. SAP users want the budget execution report to be reviewed and enhanced. SAP users are creating manual reports in excel. Fund availability is being done manually by all De

What are the key dates?

Publication
October 6, 2026
Bid Submission Deadline
October 22, 2026
Evaluation & Award
Pending
Contract Signature
Pending

Procuring Entity

Name: Africa Union Commission
Country: Ethiopia
Contact person: Kaputo Chenga -Bwalya
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