Procurement of 60 x solar powered tricycles for intergrated outreach program.

Specific Procurement Notice

Request for Bids -Goods

(One-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Zimbabwe

Name of Project: Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Project Essential Health Services Additional Financing

Contract Title: Solar Powered Tricycles x 60.

Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: Grant No: TF0C2998

RFB Reference No.: EHS-ZW-CORDAID-429580-GO-RFB

• The Government of Zimbabwe has received financing from the World Bank towards supporting essential health services following the COVID-19 pandemic under the Zimbabwe COVID-19 Emergency Response Project Essential Health Services Additional Financing. Part of the funds will be directed towards Procurement of Solar Powered Tricycles x 60. “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, except for those payments, which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit.”

• Cordaid Zimbabwe would like to invite sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the supply of 60 x Solar Powered Tricycles.

• Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” Procurement under the project will be carried out in accordance with the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers for Goods, Works, Non-Consulting and Consulting Services, fourth edition, September 2023. Procurement will also use the Bank’s standard procurement documents. The project will be subject to the World Bank’s Anticorruption Guidelines, dated October 15, 2006, revised in January 2011, and as of July 1, 2016 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

• Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from the following link https://shorturl.at/hmEtb or email, Cordaid Zimbabwe, Procurement and Logistics Officer on [email protected]. The inspection of the bidding documents will happen during office hours i.e 0900 to 1700 hours at the address given below.

• Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 19 March 2024. Bidders shall be required to submit a single electronic Bid. Please note that only password protected bids are accepted however the passwords should be send on the day and time of bid opening. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below on a date to be communicated to those that would have submitted their bids in due course.

• All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid-Securing Declaration.

• “Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document.”

• The address(es) referred to above is (are):

Cordaid Zimbabwe

Procurement and Logistics Officer

15 Connaught Rd, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe

00263 772 161 806/7,

[email protected]

www.healthprojectzim.org.zw