ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AfDB)

The Academy for Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT)

Tanmia wa Tatweer -Egypt’s Entrepreneurship Development Project Grant No: ML0032 – P No.: G-EG-KZO-ZZZ-004

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES- FIRM SELECTION)

Assignment Title : INCUBATOR FOR AGRIBUSINESS IN UPPER EGYPT

REF: EG-TWT-CS-FBS-006

 

The Academy for Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) has received financing from the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Countries in Transition (TFT) through the African Development Bank toward the cost of the “Egypt’s Entrepreneurship Development Project”, and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for “Incubator for Agribusiness in Upper Egypt”.

The purpose of this assignment is to recruit a consultancy service provider that is capable of designing and implementing a six months Incubation Services program, to help identify, develop and support robust and knowledgeable potential entrepreneurs who can build, operate, and sustain start-ups from the ideation phase up to early growth phase in the sector of Agribusiness. The consultancy service provider is expected to provide support in the form of technical, administrative, managerial, business, marketing and legal coaching and mentoring program that will lead to registered firms that are productive, operate a business, create jobs and are part of a vibrant local entrepreneurial economy in the specific field “Agribusiness” located in Upper Egypt.

The Academy for Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT), Tanmia wa Tatweert -Egypt’s Entrepreneurship Development Project, now invites eligible firm consultants (NGOs, private sector firms, incubators and similar entities) to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, cv’s, etc.). Consultants may constitute joint-ventures to enhance their chances of qualification.

Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Rules and Procedures for the use of Consultants” dated October 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org using a Fixed Budget Selection (FBS) method. Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office working hours from 10:00 am to 15:00 pm. Egypt standard time. Interested consultant firms can access the full text of ToR through http://www.asrt.sci.eg or requested through email below

Expressions of interest must be delivered in hard or soft copy to the address below on or before November 19, 2020 at 15:00 PM marked “INCUBATOR FOR AGRIBUSINESS IN UPPER EGYPT”.

Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Address : 3rd floor, 101 El kasr Alaini St., Cairo, Egypt

Attn:Mrs. Shaimaa Helal, TWT Director, E-mail : [email protected]; [email protected]

Copy to Mr. Ahmed Hashem, Procurement Officer, E-mail : [email protected]; [email protected]

Telephone number : 002 02 27921305 – 002 02 27921286 Fax number : 002 02 27921270