Study for Accelerating Innovation and Catalyzing Capacity for Resilience in Africa - AICCRA-FSRP Phase 4

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Country: Republic of Kenya

Project Name: Accelerating Innovation and Catalyzing Capacity for Resilience in Africa (AICCRA-FSRP IV)

Sector: Agriculture and Food

Grant No.: E6520-3A

Project ID No.: P515128

• The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) has received financing in the amount of US$ Forty Three Million (43) million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Innovation and Catalyzing Capacity for Resilience in Africa (AICCRA-FSRP IV) project, 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. This project will be jointly financed by the Policy and Human Resources Development Fund (PHRD) – Global South Pillar and the Food Systems 2030 Multi-Donor Trust Fund.

• The Project will include the following components:

2.1 Component 1: Strengthening Agricultural Information Systems and Institutional Capacity, which will support the development of agricultural data systems, climate information services, soil information systems, institutional strengthening of regional and national agricultural organizations and capacity building to improve the generation, management and use of agricultural knowledge and information;

2.2 Component 2: Scaling the Use of Agricultural Innovation, which will support the identification, validation, dissemination and scaling of climate-resilient agricultural innovations, including through challenge funds, innovation grants, partnerships with public and private sector actors and initiatives that promote adoption of technologies and practices by farmers and agribusinesses across Africa; and

2.3 Component 3: Project Management, which will support project coordination, fiduciary management, communication, monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting activities necessary for effective implementation of the Project.

• The goods, non-consulting services and consulting services expected to be procured through open international competitive procurement include:

3.1 Consulting services for data integration, consolidation, and migration to enable establishment and upgrading of digital farmer registries

3.2 Consulting services for development of policies, operational tools and institutional frameworks for Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) and for capacity building of TTO staff to support effective operationalization of IP-compliant technology transfer systems

3.3 Consulting services for design and delivery of multi-country capacity-building programs for extension staff and stakeholders to strengthen IP-compliant technology dissemination and innovation scaling

3.4 Preparation of technical requirements and supervision of implementation of the AICCRA Continental e-Catalogue Platform

3.5 Consulting services for technical advisory support in the design and guided implementation of innovation package scaling action plans.

3.6 Consulting services to develop and deliver training of trainers programs and participatory extension systems for farmers.

3.7 Consulting services for the design of contractual frameworks, partnership agreements and implementation guidelines to facilitate engagement with rural distributors, aggregators and agripreneurs for delivery of technology and information to farmers.

3.8 Consulting services to develop and deliver training programs and provide technical support to farmer networks, community groups, and farmer-facing organizations

3.9 Consulting services to support the awarding and management of matching grants under the Private Sector Challenge Fund.

3.10 Country Coordinator (Zambia)

• 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, First Published July 2016 and Revised Sixth Edition February 2025 (Procurement Regulations) 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 international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, on the World Bank’s external website and icipe’s free-access website https://www.icipe.org , as well as in the newspapers of national circulation in Kenya.

• 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:

Director General

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)

Duduville campus, Kasarani, Nairobi

P.O. Box 30772, 00100 GPO

NAIROBI, KENYA

Tel: +254-20-8632000 , Fax: +254-20-8632001/2

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.icipe.org