NDIDS System Integrator

Specific Procurement Notice – Request for Proposals without Prequalification Request for Proposal

Information Systems (Design, Supply and Installation) (Without Prequalification)

Purchaser: Government of Samoa, acting through the Samoa Bureau of Statistics (SBS)

Project: Samoa Finance Sector Resilience and Development Project, World Bank Project P181456

Contract title: Supply and Installation of the National Digital Identification System (NDIDS)

Country: Samoa

Loan No. /Credit No. / Grant No.: Credit No. IDA-E3780

RFP No: WS-SBS-570867-NC-RFP

Issued on: 28 October 2026

1. The Government of Samoa has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Samoa Finance Sector Resilience and Development Project , and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Supply and Installation of the National Digital Identification System . 2. The Samoa Bureau of Statistics now invites sealed Proposals from eligible Proposers for the supply and installation of the National Digital Identification System, covering the enrolment of the population, biometric deduplication and identity management, identity verification services for relying parties, the national identity card production chain, a civil registration platform, the supporting infrastructure and trust services, together with the associated services, training and skills transfer; the installation period runs from the Effective Date to the last milestone of the Implementation Schedule: about 16 months to Operational Acceptance of Version 2 (week 70), and up to 24 months (week 104) if the civil registration option is exercised, as stated in the Implementation Schedule of the request for proposals document; the sites are in Apia and on Savai'i, Samoa . 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” September 2025 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Proposers as defined in the Procurement Regulations. 4. Proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation process set out in the request for proposals document. The following weightings shall apply for Rated Criteria (including technical and non-price factors): seventy percent (70 %) and for Proposal price: thirty percent (30 %). 5. Interested eligible Proposers may obtain further information from Samoa Bureau of Statistics, [contact details removed] Tua , National Identification Division Head, nid@sbs.gov.ws and inspect the request for proposals document during office hours 0900 to 1700 hours Samoan Time. 6. The request for proposals document in English may be downloaded from the Government of Samoa e-Tendering Portal: https://portal.tenderlink.com/mof_samoa/login . Proposers must register on the e-Tendering portal (free of charge), to access the documents . 7. Proposals should only be submitted on or before 21 December 2026 at 11:00 hours, Samoa time through the Government Electronic Tendering Portal. Late Proposals will be rejected. The TECHNICAL PROPOSAL submissions will be publicly opened in the presence of the Proposers’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend, at the address below on 21 December 2026 at 11:10 hours, Samoa time. All FINANCIAL PROPOSAL submissions shall remain unopened and will be held in safe custody of the Purchaser until the second public Proposals opening.

8. All Proposals must be accompanied by a Proposal-Securing Declaration

9. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful Proposer’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the request for proposal document. 10. A Pre-Proposal meeting will take place on Tuesday 10 November 2026 at 10:00 AM Samoa Time by videoconference . The connection details are sent to every Proposer that requests to the Purchaser 10 days before the above scheduled date via nid@sbs.gov.ws .

11. The address (es) referred to above is (are)

For the submission of Proposals and the public opening: Ministry of Finance

Attn: [contact details removed]

Level 4, Central Bank of Samoa Building, 02 Apia City Boulevard, APIA, SAMOA

Signed,

Leota Aliielua Salani GOVERNMENT STATISTICIAN SAMOA BUREAU OF STATISTICS