Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVCDP)

Specific Procurement Notice

Re – Request for Bids

Design, Supply and Installation of Cold Storage

Facilities

(Without Prequalification)

Employer: Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Project: Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVCDP)

Contract title: Supply and Installation of Cold Storage Facilities.

Country: The Republic of Sudan

Loan No. /Grant No.: 5900155013802

RFB No: AVCDP/SDN/AfDB/ICB/W/01/2021

Issued on: 17/06/2021

 

  1. The Republic of Sudan has received financing from the African Development Bank hereinafter called the Bank toward the cost of the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVCDP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for the Design, Supply and Installation of Cold Storage Facilities. “For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines and procedures for Investment Project Financing.
  1. The Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVCDP) now invites sealed bids from eligible Bidders for Supply and Installation of Cold Storage Facilities for Potato Seed at Ministry of Agriculture Farm, Northern of Umm Baddah locality, 22 km on Omdurman-Dongola road.
  1. Bidding will be conducted through Open Competitive Bidding International (OCBI) procedures using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Policy for Bank Group Funded Operations, dated October 2015”, and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Policy.
  1. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Project Implementation Unit (PIU), Building No. (171), Secretariat of North Kordofan Government, Directorate Area, Elobied City, North Kordofan State, Sudan and inspect the Bidding Document during office hours Sunday to Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sudan local time at the address given below.
  1. The Bidding document in English language may be purchased by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of SDG 20,000 (Twenty Thousand Sudanese Pound) or its equivalent in a freely convertible currency. The method of payment will be in cash only. The document will be sent by courier or by hand-delivery.
  1. Bids must be delivered to the address below, on or before Wednesday, 18 August 2021 at 12:00 p.m. Sudan local time.
  1. Electronic Bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected.
  1. Bids will be publicly opened on Wednesday, 18 August 2021 at 12:30 in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below:
  1. All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security in the amount of 60,000 USD (Sixty Thousand United States Dollar).

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

Ministry of Agriculture and Forests

Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVCDP)

Project Focal Point

The Botanical Garden – Eastern Gate

Southern the Sudanese Agricultural Bank HQ

Al-Muqran Area

Khartoum

The Republic of Sudan

Tel: +249 123 413 575 – + 249 9121 23120

Ibrahim Abdel Karim Adam

Acting project Coordinator

Tel: +249 123 503916

E-mail: [email protected]