Invitation to Bid at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning

Posted by Future on Fri 24th Sep, 2021 - nigeriantenders.com

The Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning invites interested and qualified contractors and consultants to bid for the following projects:

The Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning invite applications for:

Title: General Procurement Notice for the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) Social Protection

Preamble

The Federal Government of Nigeria has received financing in the amount of US$ 750,000,000.00 equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES), 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.

Scope of Work

The project will include the following components:

Results Area 1 (Ra1): Increased Social Transfer, Basic Services and Livelihood Support to Poor and Vulnerable Households. This Result Area is disaggregated around the following activities:

Social Transfer to aged, physically challenged, chronically ill and urban poor
Labour intensive public work activities
Livelihood grants to economically active household members
Community and group investment/basic infrastructure services.

Results Area 2 (RA 2): Increased food security and safe functioning of food supply chain. This will include agriculture related activities across the entire Agriculture value chain such as:

Provision of agricultural inputs and services
Labour intensive agricultural infrastructures
Agricultural assets for production and mitigation of food loss and waste
Upgrading wet markets to function safely.

Results Area 3 (RA 3): Facilitating Recovery and Enhancing Capabilities of MSEs. Activities proposed under this Results Area include:

Provision of well targeted conditional grants to co-finance loans that eligible MSEs received during the COVID-19.
Extending conditional grants to MSEs cover up 50% portion of monthly operation cost of MSEs.
Support adoption of digital payments integration and IT connection cost of MSEs.

Foundation Result Area: Strengthened Institutional Support for State Coordination and Delivery. While implementation of Results Areas 1-3 will happen at the state level, Foundation Result Area will be implemented at the federal level and will include:

Verification of result through an independent verification agent.
Financial management service and technical support.
Monitoring and evaluation.
Peer learning experience sharing.

Collection of Documents

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:

Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES),

The National Coordinator,

Federal CARES Support Unit (FCSU),

No.14 Moussa Traore Crescent,

Off Thomas Sankara Street,

Asokoro - (FCT) Abuja.

Tel: +234 7014534703.

E-mail: fcsu@ngcares.gov.ng , info@ngcares.gov.ng

Please Note

Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank's Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (July 2016) (Procurement Regulations) and is open to all eligible firms and individuals as defined in the Procurement Regulations. 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 The Nation News Paper, Daily Trust News Paper and the Federal Tenders Journal.