The Ethiopian Herald Sunday October 19, 2025
Request for Proposals
Goods (Two-Envelope Bidding Process)
(Without Prequalification)
Purchaser: Ministry of Innovation and Technology
Project: Eastern Africa Regional Digital Integration
Project (EARDIP)
Contract Title: Procurement of Supply, Installation,
Commissioning, Network design, Standard LAN and WAN with ICT equipment for RRS branch
offices and refugee camps
Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Credit
No. E-2560
RFP Reference No. ET-MINT-495202-GO-RFP Issued on: October
23,2025
1. The
Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing
from the World Bank toward the cost of the Eastern Africa Regional Digital Integration
Project (EARDIP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under
the contract for Procurement of Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Network design,
Standard LAN and WAN with ICT equipment for RRS branch offices and refugee camps.
2. The
Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Eastern Africa Regional Digital Integration
Project (EARDIP) now invites sealed Proposals from eligible Proposers for Procurement
of Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Network design, Standard LAN and WAN with
ICT equipment for RRS branch offices and refugee camps. No margin of domestic preference
shall apply, and proposers are required to meet the following qualification criteria:
|
Qualification
factor
|
Qualification
Criteria
|
|
Minimum
Average Annual Turnover
|
USD
8 million calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress
or completed, within the last three (3) years
|
|
Financial
Resources
|
The
Proposer must demonstrate access to, or availability of, financial resources such
as liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial
means, other than any contractual advance payments to meet the following cash-flow
requirement: USD 1.0 million or equivalent in a freely convertible currency
|
|
General
Experience
|
Experience
under Information System contracts in the role of prime supplier, management contractor
JV member or subcontractor for at least the last five years (5) years prior to
the applications submission deadline
|
|
Specific
Experience
|
Participation
as a prime supplier, management contractor, JV member, sub-contractor, at least
one contract with a value of USD 5.5 million within the last five (5) years.
|
3. The
procurement process will be conducted through international competitive procurement
using Request for Proposals (RFP) as specified in the World Bank's "Procurement
Regulations for IPF Borrowers" 6th Edition, February 2025 ("Procurement
Regulations"), and is open to all eligible Proposers as defined in the Procurement
Regulations.
4. Proposals
will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation process set out in the request
for proposals document. The following weightings shall apply to Rated Criteria (including
technical and non-price factors): 60% and for Bid cost: 40%.
5. Interested
eligible Proposers may obtain further information from Ministry of Innovation and
Technology (MINT), Eastern Africa Regional Digital Integration Project (EARDIP)
office, e-mail procurement@mintprojects.gov.et
and inspect the request for proposals document during office hours from 08:30 -
12:30 hours and 13:30 -17:00 hours Ethiopian time from Mondays to Thursdays; and
08:30 to 11:30 hours and 13:30 - 17:00 hours Ethiopian time on Fridays at the address
given below.
6. The
request for proposals document in English language may be freely accessed by interested
eligible Proposers upon submission of a written application using the email addresses
indicated below (e-mail should be sent for both addresses indicated below). Once
the email request has been sent to the designated e-mail addresses, the soft copy
of the RFP document will be sent to the requester. To facilitate further communication
and correspondence, the interested eligible Proposer should indicate the name of
the company, contact/focal person, telephone number, e-mail address and relevant
information on his/her request e-mail.
7. Proposals
must be delivered to the address below on
or before December 9th, 2025, 14:30 hours Ethiopian Time. Electronic procurement
will not be permitted. Late Proposals will be rejected. The outer Proposal envelopes
marked "ORIGINAL PROPOSAL", and the inner envelopes marked "TECHNICAL
PART" will be publicly opened in of the Proposers' designated representatives
and anyone presence who chooses to attend, at the address below on December 9th, 2025, at 15:00 hours Ethiopian
Time. All envelopes marked "FINANCIAL PART" shall remain unopened and
will be held in safe custody of the Purchaser until the second public opening.
8. All
Proposals must be accompanied by a Proposal Security of USD 70,000.00 (Seventy Thousand us dollar) or ETB 9,500,000.00 (ETB Nine Million
Five Hundred Thousand) or equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency.
9. Attention
is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information
on the successful proposer's beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award
Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding
document.
10. The
address referred to above is:
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia,
Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MINT)
Eastern Africa Regional Digital Integration Project (EARDIP)
Address: Arada Sub-city, Tracon Building 6th floor, in
front of Tikur
Anbesa Secondary School, Procurement Management Specialist,
Tel.+251913603899,
Email address 1: procurement@mintprojects.gov.et Email address 2: zayedemoint@gmail.com
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ministry of Innovation and Technology