Sudan Basic Education Support Project

Sudan

Basic Education Support Project

Education

Loan No./Credit No./TF No.B4198/Grant No.

Project ID No. 167169

The Ministry of Education has received financing for equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Basic Education Support 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 GPE.

The project will include the following components:

Component 1 – School Improvement Program (US$33.0M)

This component will support school improvements towards increasing access and enhancing quality of teaching and learning in selected number of disadvantaged schools. Under this component, the project will support the definition and implementation of the school construction program to respond to the shortage of classroom in identified schools where there are classes in open air and support the transfer of school grants to improve knowledge conditions and support the most vulnerable students, who are more likely to drop out.

Component 2: Systems Strengthening ($6m):

This component will support capacity building in the Federal Ministry of General Education and state Ministries of Education for production and use of data for strategic and operational planning. Also, the project will support development of a teacher deployment program and support its implementation in selected states with school-level pupil-teacher ratios significantly above the country average.

National Learning Assessment (NLA). This sub-component will support the consolidation of the capacity to implement the NLA every three years, and the usage of data for policy formulation and implementation in Sudan. The latest round of NLA was completed in January 2018. Two cohorts were tested in reading and math – Grade 3 and Grade 6 pupils. Schools where Grade 3 pupils were tested in 2014/15 were added to the sample, to explore the change in student learning outcomes. While the results show overall low levels of learning, they serve as an important source of data for policy dialogue. The data provides for details, which facilitate the understanding of the learning among states and within states. The program will promote further use of the NLA data among national researchers through a competitive research fund. The next round of NLA is scheduled for 2020. Results of the assessment will inform the design of the next education sector plan for 2022-2026.

Component 3: Program coordination, monitoring and evaluation ($3m)

This component will support the Federal MoE in overall program coordination, monitoring and evaluation. The Program Coordination unit will cover functions such as planning, procurement, financial management, environmental and social safeguards and monitoring and evaluation. Technical experts will be mobilized as necessary.

This component will also cover the verification of the achievement of the Disbursement-Linked indicators proposed for the Variable Part.

Goods and Works:

For small goods, the Project will go to national market through the method of request for quotation (RFQ).

Regarding printing and supply of textbooks, the threshold-adopted above the national market capacity, hence the project will go international market through request for bids (RFB).

Consultant Services:

The new project will recruit national and international individual consultants to support the FMoE. In addition, of recruitment of national consulting firms for publishing and design the targeted textbooks and for disbursement of school grant funds through Intermediary Support Providers.

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 (July 2016) (Procurement Regulations), and is open to all eligible firms and individuals as defined in the Procurement Regulations.[1] 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, in UN Development Business online, on the World Bank’s external website

Prequalification/Initial Selection of suppliers and contractors will be required for the following contracts [ Text Books Printing and International Consultants].1

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: