Malawi Foundational Learning Program for Results — Ministry of Education, Science and Technology

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

COUNTRY: MALAWI

MALAWI FOUNDATIONAL LEARNING FOR RESULTS

SECTOR: EDUCATION

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Loan No./Credit No./TF No./Grant No.

Project ID No. P507745

The Malawi Government through the Ministry of Education Science and Technology has received financing in the amount of US$ 68.7 Million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Malawi Foundational Learning for Results, 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.

The project will include the following components:

Results Area 1: Transforming Learning Spaces for School Readiness and Foundational Learning

This Results Area focuses on improving access to safe, inclusive, and climate-resilient learning environments for early childhood and lower primary education. It supports the development, rehabilitation, and upgrading of preparatory class (p-class) and lower primary infrastructure, including classrooms, sanitation facilities, outdoor learning spaces, and teachers’ housing, with the objective of reducing overcrowding and improving school readiness and foundational learning conditions.

Results Area 2: Building an Effective Teacher Workforce for Inclusive Foundational Learning

This Results Area aims to strengthen the effectiveness and accountability of the teacher workforce delivering foundational learning. It supports interventions to improve teacher recruitment, deployment, training, supervision, and continuous professional development, as well as the quality and use of teaching and learning materials, to enhance literacy and numeracy outcomes in preparatory and lower primary grades.

Results Area 3: Strengthening Financing of Education

This Results Area seeks to improve the efficiency, equity, and predictability of education financing. It focuses on strengthening systems for budgeting, fund flow, teacher deployment, and learning assessment, and on enhancing the use of data and evidence to support equitable allocation of resources and improved service delivery at school level.

Investment Project Financing (IPF) Component: Strengthening Systems, Finance and Learning

This component provides technical assistance and implementation support to underpin achievement of the Program Results Areas. It focuses on strengthening institutional capacity for program coordination, procurement, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, safeguards management, data and information systems, and independent verification of results.

The following goods, works non-consultancy services and consultancy services will be procured through Open-national Competitive Procurement methods;

(a) Goods and Non-Consulting Services

• Supply and delivery of ICT equipment

• Supply and delivery of motor vehicles

• Supply and delivery of printing materials

• Reconfiguration of accounting software

(b) Consultancy Services

• Quality assurance of revised curricula and teaching and learning materials for p-class and lower primary grades

• Development of improved content and procedures for the reformed Continuous Professional Development (CPD) system

• Development of a teacher observation tool

• Review of pre-service teacher training provision for foundational learning, identifying gaps and challenges, and recommending interventions

• Development of teacher data and monitoring system updating of tools to support equitable allocation of teachers to schools

• Improvement of standardized testing and feedback systems

• Improvement of formative assessment systems

• Development of learning assessment data systems

• Gender audit

• Evaluation of key program activities

• Independent verification of Disbursement-Linked Indicators (DLIs)

• Program Manager

• Procurement Specialist

• Financial Management Specialist

• Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

• Works Supervising Engineer

• Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

• Social and Gender Specialist

• Communications Specialist

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 (September 2025) (Procurement Regulations), Guidelines on Preventing and Combating Fraud and Corruption in Projects Financed by IBRD Loans and IDA Credits and Grants, dated October 15, 2006, and revised in January 2011 and July 1, 2016; and other provisions stipulated in the Financing Agreements 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 national competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business and DgMarket online, on the World Bank’s external website and The Daily Times and Nation Newspapers of Malawi.

Prequalification/Initial Selection of suppliers and contractors will be required for the following contracts; None

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

Ministry of Education Science and Technology

Ellen Simango- Director of Basic Education

[Private Bag 328, Capital Hill, Lilongwe 3, Malawi p + 265 0999 511 495

[email protected]