GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Country: ZIMBABWE

Name of Project: Zimbabwe COVID-19 Emergency Response Project and Essential Health Services Additional Financing.

Loan No./Credit No./TF No./Grant No.  TF0C2998

Project ID No. P176141

Cordaid Zimbabwe has received financing in the amount of US$15 million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Zimbabwe COVID-19[1] Emergency Response Project and Essential Health Services, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services to be procured under this project. This project will be financed by the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents.

The project will include the following sub-components:

Sub- Component 1. Integrated Outreach Service Delivery Model (US$3.146 million)

Sub-Component 2. Support Community Health Services Including Disease Surveillance   (US$280,000.00)

Sub-Component 3. Commodity Security (US$6.2million).

Sub-Component 4. Waiting Mothers’ Shelters: Support Utilization of Maternity Waiting Homes (US$480,000.00)

Sub-Component 5. Innovation in Health Systems Strengthening: Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Including Implementation of Early Warning System on Health System Disruptions (US$180,000.00).

The project will support the following major procurement:

  1. Fully equipped outreach vans,
  2. 18-seater rough terrain minibuses,
  3. Solar powered tricycle,
  4. Hospital equipment, renovations of theatres and oxygen piping
  5. Motorcycles,
  6. Refurbishment of maternity waiting homes.

Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for Investment Project Financing (IPF) Borrowers November 2020,  and is open to all eligible firms and individuals  as defined in the Procurement Regulations.[2] After project negotiations, the World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection.

Specific procurement notices for contracts subject to open international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business online, on the World Bank’s external website and www.healthprojectzim.org.zw

and in Zimbabwean National newspaper

Prequalification/Initial Selection of suppliers and contractors will be required for the following contracts: Not applicable .1

Interested eligible firms and individuals who would wish to be considered for the provision of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services for the above-mentioned project, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the address below:

Cordaid Zimbabwe
Takudzwa Rusare, Procurement Officer
15 Connaught Rd, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
+ 263 (0) 772 161 806/7, procurementzim@cordaid.org

www.healthprojectzim.org.zw

[1] COVID-19: Coronavirus Disease 2019

[2]      Occasionally contracts may be financed out of tied trust funds that would further restrict eligibility to a particular group of member countries. When this is the case, it should be mentioned in this paragraph.