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Specific Procurement Notice-Request for Proposals

without Prequalification

Request for Proposals Information Systems

Design, Supply and Installation [Two-Envelope Procurement Process)

Purchaser Ministry of Labor and Skills (MoLS)

Project: Education and Skills for Employment Project (EASE)

Contract title: Support TVET reform policy through building the capacity of Regional Center of Competencies through the provision of ICT Infrastructures to ensure Training and Assessment Quality

Country: Ethiopia

Credit No.: IDA-74200-001

RFP No: ET-MOLS-501377-GO-RFP

Issued on: 20/10/2025

1. The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Education for Skills and Employment (EASE) and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for procurement for Support TVET reform policy through building the capacity of Regional Center of Competencies through the provision of ICT Infrastructures to ensure Training and Assessment Quality

2. The Ministry of Labor and Skills now invites sealed Proposals from eligible Proposers for Support TVET reform policy through building the capacity of Regional Center of Competencies through the provision of ICT Infrastructures to ensure Training and Assessment Quality, which is intended to be delivered within six months. No margin of domestic preference shall apply. Proposers are required to meet the following criteria:

Item/No.	Qualification Criteria	Minimum Requirement
1	Average Annual Turn over for the last three years	USD 6 Million or equivalent
2	Access to, or availability of, financial resources such as liquid assets	USD 2.0 Million or equivalent
3	General Experience	Experience under Information System contracts in the role of prime supplier, management contractor, JV member, or subcontractor for at least the last 5 (Five) years prior to the applications submission deadline.
		Participation as a prime supplier, management contractor, JV member, sub- contractor, in at least two (2) contracts in the last 3 years each with a value of at least USD 4.5 million or one (1)
4	Specific Project Experience	contract within the last three (3) years, with a value of at least USD 9.0 million or equivalent, that have been successfully and substantially completed and that are similar to the proposed) Information System involving: the supply & delivery of ICT infrastructure and hardware, installation, commissioning, and support. The successfully completed similar contracts shall be documented by a copy of an Operational acceptance certificate (or equivalent documentation satisfactory to the Purchaser)

The Purchaser’s evaluation of responsive Proposals will take into account the following technical factors, in addition to cost factors. The weight to be assigned for the technical factors is 60% and cost is 40%

No.	Criteria	Score%
1	Proposed Project Implementation & Staffing	30
2	Proposed Technical Solution, Hardware, Software & 70 Service & Training	70

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” Procurement in Investment Project Financing, Goods, Works, Non-consulting and Consulting Services’, Fifth Edition, September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Proposers as defined in the Procurement Regulations.”.

4.Interested eligible Proposers may obtain further information from Ministry of Labor and Skills (MoLS) Education and Skills for Employment (EASE), Haftom Gebregziabher / Ayenalem Alembo, haftomease@gmail.com  / alemdoda@gmail.com  and inspect the request for proposals document during office hours from 8:30-12:30 hours Ethiopian Time and 13:30-17:00 hours Ethiopian Time from Monday to Friday at the address given below.

5. The request for proposals document in English language may be purchased by interested eligible Proposers upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of USD 100 or ETB 14,000 or equivalent in a freely convertible currency. The method of payment will be in cash payment with CBE account 1000641723006 by the name Ministry of Labor and Skills-Education and Skills for Employability Project. The document will be sent by e-mail, or proposers can collect it in person from the Ministry of Labor and Skills, EASE project office.

6. Proposals must be delivered to the address below on or before December 1, 2025, at 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 the presence of the Proposers’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend, at the address below on December 1, 2025 at 14:30 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 Proposals opening.”.

7. All Proposals must be accompanied by a Proposal Security as appropriate of USD 60,000.00 (USD Sixty thousand only) or ETB 8,400,000.00 (ETB Eight million four hundred thousand) or equivalent in a freely convertible currency.

8. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the request for proposal document.

9. The address referred to above is:

Ministry of Labor and Skills (MoLS)

Education and Skills for Employment (EASE), National Project Coordination Unit

Attention: Haftom Gebregziabher/Ayenalem Alembo

Address: Around Lamberet Opposite to Ministry of Mines, Near to Federal Technical and

Vocational Education and Training Institute (Federal TVETI). Floor/ Room number: NPCU Project Office 1st Floor, Room 210, Project office City: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia

Telephone: +251-911-566555 or +251 996404018

Electronic mail address: haftomease@gmail.com or alemdoda@gmail.com

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia