Please read the detailed instructions below. ከስር የተቀመጠውን እያንዳንዱን መረጃ በጥንቃቄ ያንብቡ።

Request For Bids Goods

For Welding Machine and Equipment

Country: Ethiopia

Project: East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP)

Contract title: Procurement of Welding Machine and Equipment

Credit No./Grant No.: 6335-ET and D395-ET

RFB Reference No: ET-ET KOMBOLCHA-508533- GO-RFB

1. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the procurement of Welding Machine and Equipment at Kombolcha Polytechnic College.

2. The Kombolcha Polytechnic College, East Africa Skill Transformation and Regional Integration Project /EASTRIP/ now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Welding Machine and Equipment from those having experience under goods procurement. The supply of the goods is expected to be completed within 90 calendar days.

3. Bidding will be conducted through National Competitive Procurement using a Request for Bid (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers: Procurement in Investment Project Financing, Goods, Works, Non-Consulting and Consulting Services dated July 2016, Revised November 2017, August 2018 and Nov. 2020. (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from the Kombolcha Polytechnic College (KPC), East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP) office and inspect the bidding document during office hours from 8:30AM-12:30 PM and 2:00- 5:00 PM local time from Monday to Friday at the address given below.

5. 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 ETB 500/ETB five hundred / or an equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency. The method of payment will be in CPO or through Kombolcha Polytechnic College bank account given below.

6. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 10:30 A.M local time on 14 October 2025. Electronic Bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected.

7. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ or their designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below on 14 October 2025 at 10:30 A.M Local time.

8. All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security ETB 800,000 (ETB Eight Hundred Thousand) or the equivalent amount in a freely convertible currency. If the Bank guarantee is issued from banks in other countries other than Ethiopia the guarantee should be counter guaranteed by Ethiopian Commercial Banks.

9. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose formation 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.

10. The address (es) referred to above is:

Kombolcha Polytechnic College (KPC)

East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project

(EASTRIP), Project Coordination Unit

Attention: Mr. Yelekal Gete

Address: Kombolcha Polytechnic College

Floor/Room number: KPTC-EASTRIP Project Implementation Unit

City: Kombolcha

Country: Ethiopia

Electronic mail address: kpceth@gmail.com 

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Acct No:1000022308142

Kombolcha Polytechnic College (KPC) East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP)