REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Republic of Sudan

Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources

ENABLE Youth Sudan Program – Project II

Engineering Consultancy Services – FIRM)

  • The Government of Sudan (GoS) has received financing from the African Development Bank (AfDB) in a form of a grant toward the cost of the ENABLE Youth Sudan Program – Project II, and intends to apply part of the agreed amount of the grant to payments under the contract for the Design and Supervision of Upgrading and Equipping of the Youth Agribusiness Incubation Centers (YABICs).
  • ENABLE Youth Sudan Program is one of AfDB’s ENABLE Youth Initiatives under the Bank’s Feed Africa Strategy (2016 – 2025). The objective of the program is to create business opportunities and decent employment for young women and men along priority agricultural value chains in Sudan. Project I of the program is currently being implemented to train and empower 2,000 Agricultural Entrepreneurs (Agripreneurs) in YABICs in five states in the country. Each of these Agripreneurs is expected to employ five other support workers, generating 12,000 jobs in total over the first 5 years of the program. The program will also upgrade and equip the YABICs.
  • Project II of the Program is just approved and will cover additional six states namely Sinnar, Blue Nile, White Nile, South Kordofan, West Kordofan and Northern State. The engineering services will be required in these states.
    • The required services under this assignment include the following:
    • Preparation of YABICs Designs, Bills of Quantities, Drawings and Specifications;
    • Developing Bidding selection Criteria and Conducting Bids Evaluation; and
    • Supervision of civil and technical works for YABICs upgrading (In conformity with the existing building codes and regulation in Sudan); initial and final take over and issue of initial and final completion certificate.
  • The Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources now invites eligible consulting firms 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, 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 Procurement Policy for Bank Group Funded Operations, dated October 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website at https://www.afdb.org. The Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources is under no obligation to shortlist any consultant who expresses interest.
  • Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours from 07:30 hrs to 15:30 hrs, Sunday to Thursday, excluding public holidays.
  • Expressions of interest must be delivered the address below by 12:00 p.m. on 15 August 2021, and mention “Designs and Supervision for Youth Agribusiness Incubation Canters (YABICs)”.

Attn.: Omer M. El Amin

Procurement Specialist

ENABLE Youth Sudan Program

Ministry of Agriculture and Forests

East to Osman Digna St. Intersection with Shaikh Mustafa El Amin St.

Khartoum Sharq, Khartoum, Sudan

Tel: 00249912314275 & 00249123014275

E-mail: [email protected]

E-mail: [email protected]