Supply of ICT Equipment — HEET Project at UDOM Main Campus

Name of Project: Supply of ICT Equipment and Supply Installation and Commissioning of Smart Class at COESE and CNMS (HEET)

Contract Title: Supply of ICT Equipment at UDOM Main Campus for HEET Project.

Loan No./Credit No./Grant No.: P166415

Project Reference No.: P166415

STEP Reference No.: 516743

RFB Reference No.: TR63/WB-HEET/P166415/516743/2025/2026/G/RFQ/07.

• This Invitation for bid follows the General Procurement Notice (GPN) for this Project which appeared in United Nations Development Business (UNDB) Issue No. P166415 dated2025/2026and the National e-Procurement System of Tanzania (NeST) dated13/08/2025.

• The UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA has received LOAN financing from the World Bank towards

the cost of the Supply of ICT Equipment and Supply Installation and Commissioning of Smart

Class at COESE and CNMS , and it intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under

the contracts for Supply of ICT Equipment at UDOM Main Campus for HEET Project.. 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. “For this contract, the Borrower shall

process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World

Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing.”

• Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Tendering using Request for Bids

(RfB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” fourth

edition, November 2020 as well as the Public Procurement Act, CAP 410, and is open to all

Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

• Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA, Stanley Nonjela P. O. Box 259 and inspect the bidding document through NeST.

• A complete set of bidding document(s) in English may be accessed through NeST freely. Bidders are required to register through NeST and pay the bid participation fees indicated in the NeST (https://nest.go.tz/nest-tenderer/wallet/tender-charges) to be able to participate in this Bidding process.

• NeST payment user guide is made available in the NeST dashboard.

• Bids must be submitted electronically through NeST on or before 2:00 PM hours local time on

20/01/2026. Bid(s) will be opened promptly thereafter through NeST. Bid opening details will be

available through NeST.

8.All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security in the form of Tender Security - Bank Guarantee

in the currency of The Tanzanian Shilling or freely convertible currencies in case of foreign

Tenderers worth 40,000,000.00.

• Bids not received or opened through NeST shall not be accepted for evaluation irrespective of the

circumstances.

Vice Chancellor

P. O. Box 259