Yemen Restoring Education and Learning Emergency Project

Request for Bids

Textbooks and Reading Materials

Purchaser: Save the Children International

Project: Restoring Education and Learning (REAL) Project

Contract title: Printing of Education & Learning Materials (School textbook and teacher guidelines)

Country: Republic of Yemen

Loan No. /Credit No. / Grant No.: TF0B6907

RFB No: REAL-SCI-CO-2024-001

Issued on: 01-July-2024

1.        The Save the Children International has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Restoring Education and Learning in Yemen and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for Printing of Education & Learning Materials (School textbook and teacher guidelines. Bidding process will be governed by the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations.”

2.        The Save the Children International now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Printing of Education & Learning Materials for the first textbook and teaching materials for grades (1-3) as per the tables below.

3.        Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” dated July 2016, revised September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

4.        Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from [Save the Children International – Jordan,   Ghassan Khzouz, Email: Tenders.Menaee@savethechildren.org] and inspect the bidding document during office hours [Sundays-Thursday 0900 to 1700 hours] at the address given below in paragraph 9

5.        The bidding document in English may be purchased by interested Bidders upon the submission of a written application (including the trading/business certificate) to the address below and no payment to acquire the bidding document is required. The document will be sent by email upon request and validation of the business/trading license of similar category.

6.        Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 05 August 2024, 11:00 am (Jordan Local 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 [Amman, SCI Office, 05 August 2024, 11:00 am] for those who want to participate online, they shall request officially to register to receive the meeting link 24 hours before the bid opening, to the same email address in paragraph 9

7.        All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of 50,0000 USD.

8.        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.

9.        The address(es) referred to above is (are):

Save the Children International

Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe Regional Office

Iben Al Fared Street – Al Abdali, Amman - Jordan

Att. Ghassan Khzouz

Mobile: +962 777991992

Email: Tenders.Menaee@savethechildren.org

10. INTRODUCN TO SAVE THE CHILDREN

SCI is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Our Vision – a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

Our Mission – to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We do this through a range of initiatives and programs, to:

• Provide lifesaving supplies & emotional support for children caught up in disasters (e.g. floods, famine & wars).
• Campaign for long term change to improve children’s lives.
• Improve children’s access to the food and healthcare they need to survive.
• Secure a good quality education for the children who need it most.
• Protect the world’s most vulnerable children, including those separated from their families because of war, natural disasters, extreme poverty or exploitation.
• Work with families to help them out of the poverty cycle so they can feed and support their children.

For more information on the work we undertake and recent achievements, visit our website.

11.VETTING

Successful bidders must be successfully vetted. This involves checking bidders and key personnel against Global Watch Lists, Enhanced Due Diligence Lists and Politically Exposed Persons Lists.

The vetting of bidders will be completed after the award decision and prior to any contract being signed, or orders placed. If any information provided by the Bidder throughout the tender process is proved to be incorrect during the vetting process (or at any other point), SCI may withdraw

1. TIMESCALES

The above dates are for indicative purposes only and are subject to change.