Public Call for Tender no 91186146 Procurement of Seeds Cleaner PN# 21.1823.0-001.00 ACE
1. Brief information on the project
The project Strengthening Agriculture, local Communities and small and medium Enterprises (ACE) aims to strengthen economic stabilization and improve social cohesion through targeted measures to promote cooperation and exchange in three areas of action:
Agriculture: Support of farmers to form agricultural associations and to produce in accordance with market needs, including training and sharing of good agricultural practices.
Support of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME): Targeted promotion of income prospects with financial and capacity-building measures to promote entrepreneurial action and closing important gaps in the value chains
Local communities & social cohesion: Joint planning & implementation of low-threshold community initiatives both within civil society and together with local governments to strengthen positive intergroup experiences as well as increasing confidence in local capacity to act
The project is categorized as part of the transitional development assistance. The project will promote individual skills so that the parties responsible in agricultural businesses, food processing enterprises and other SMEs downstream of agriculture, as well as local authorities and civil society, will be able to understand changes and adapt their actions.
2. Context
This request aims to support farmers to form agricultural associations and to produce in accordance with market needs. AoA1 is implementing a project that is supporting 130 smallholder farmers through the support of 15 farmer groups through the implementation of the Agribusiness Cluster Approach (ABC). The ABC approach aims at strengthening the business relationships among agribusiness market actors and smallholder farmers for their own benefit.
To ensure the complementarity of the implemented measures targeting the legume value chain actors in Bekaa, the farmers will be equipped with "Seed Cleaner" that will allow them to improve the quality of their product, which will increase their competitiveness and their capacity to meet the market needs successfully.
Therefore, this request for tender is to identify local suppliers that provide, deliver, and install the items according to the specifications listed in the tender documents.
How to apply
Tender documents may be obtained in writing by email only no later than Thursday, February 20, 2025, at 23:59 (Beirut Local Time). Interested companies has to send an email to LB_quotation@giz.de with the subject line:
"Confidential – Request for Tender Documents – 91186146 Procurement of Seeds Cleaner"
The tender Documents consists of the following:
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Terms of Reference (TOR)
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Financial Offer Template for price quotation
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Company Eligibility Grid
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Technical Assessment Grid
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GIZ Code of Conduct (to be signed and stamped)
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GIZ General Terms for Procurement of Goods (to be signed and stamped)
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Self-declaration EU-Russia Sanctions for Purchase Orders (to be signed and stamped)
Clarifications:
For any inquiries regarding this tender, please send a written request to LB_quotation@giz.de by Thursday, February 20, 2025, during normal office hours.
Your email subject should be: "Confidential – Clarification Tender no. 91186146 Procurement of Seeds Cleaner."
Offer Submission Deadline:
The deadline for submitting offers is Tuesday, February 25, 2025, by 23:59 (Beirut Local Time).
Submission Guidelines:
Offers must be submitted in PDF format via two separate emails to LB_quotation@giz.de, as follows:
Technical Offer – Subject line:
"Confidential – [Company Name] / Technical Offer / 91186146 Procurement of Seeds Cleaner"
Financial Offer – Subject line:
"Confidential – [Company Name] / Financial Offer / 91186146 Procurement of Seeds Cleaner"
Key Requirements:
- Offers must be in English, signed, dated, and stamped.
- Refurbished items are not accepted.
- All manuals must be provided in English.
- GIZ reserves the right to request a sample check after the offer submission.
- A penalty of 1/2 % of the total purchase order sum will be deducted on each delayed week calculated from the due date of delivery.
- If you do not receive written notification within four weeks after the submission deadline, consider your offer unsuccessful.
- No reimbursement will be provided for submitted offers.
- Sending your offers to any other email address or non-compliance with any of the mentioned conditions will result in rejecting your participation in this tender.
- All Products / items with Origin Russia or Belarus are not accepted by GIZ Office and Projects due to sanction list against Russia and Belarus.
N.B. The maximum mailbox receive size is capped at 25 MB. Documents exceeding the mentioned MB should be transferred via : Start (giz.de) (Provide the password)
