Construction of Awadi Geberoch diversion irrigation Scheme in Argoba woreda

Specific Procurement Notice Request For Bids Small Works (One-Envelope Bidding Process) Country Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Project: Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project – Phase Two (LLRP-II)

Contract Title: Construction of Awadi Geberoch Diversion Irrigation Scheme in Argoba Woreda

RFB Reference No .: ET-AFR-RPCU-589816-CW-RFB

Credit No .: IDA-7519-ET

The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project – Phase Two (LLRP-II), and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for the Construction of Awadi Geberoch Diversion Irrigation Scheme in Argoba Woreda. The Afar National Regional State, Office of the President, Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project – Phase Two (LLRP-II), Regional Project Coordination Unit, now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the Construction of Awadi Geberoch Diversion Irrigation Scheme in Argoba Woreda. The works comprise [insert brief scope, e.g. diversion headwork, main and secondary canals, canal structures and command area of 90 ha. The construction period is 10 months. Qualification requirements are specified in Section III, Evaluation and Qualification Criteria, of the bidding document. Bidding will be conducted through national competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers”, Seventh Edition, 2025 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II), Afar Regional Project Coordination Unit, via e-mail at: afarllp@gmail.com, with copy to: aidahishassen@gmail.com, and inspect the

bidding document during office hours, 7: 00 a.m. – 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (East Africa Time) on working days, at the address given below.

A complete set of bidding documents in English may be obtained free of charge by interested eligible Bidders upon submission of a written application to the address below. The document will be issued in hard copy at the address below or sent by e-mail upon request upon payment free. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 20 November 2026, 9:30 A.M . (East Africa Time). Electronic Bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below on 20 November 2026, 9:30 A.M. at 10:00 A.M. (East Africa Time). All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of ETB 900,000.00 Nine Hundred Thousand Birr) in the form of an unconditional bank guarantee or a CPO issued by a recognized bank, as specified in the bidding document, made out in the name of the Afar Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project, Regional Project Coordination Unit (LLRP-II). 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 bidding document.

The address referred to above is:

Afar National Regional State, Office of the President, Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II), Afar Regional Project Coordination Unit (RPCU)

Attn: [contact details removed]

Tel: [contact details removed],

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E-mail: afarllp@gmail.com;

aidahishassen@gmail.com Semera, Afar, Ethiopia