Specific Procurement Notice
Request for Bids
Goods
(One-Envelope Bidding Process)
Country: Angola
Name of Project: Angola Covid-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Project
Contract Title: Installation and commissioning of PSA oxygen generation plants
Loan No: IBRD 92870
RFB Reference No.: RFB -COVID19-VAC/G-051
1. The Angolan Ministry of Health has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Angola COVID-19 Vaccine Purchase and Development Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds towards the Procurement of Installation and commissioning of PSA oxygen generation plants. For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing, except for those payments, which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit.”
2 The Angola COVID-19 Vaccine Purchase and Development Project now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the Procurement, Installation and commissioning of 2 PSA oxygen generation plants in Namibe (Hospital Materno Infantil do Namibe and Hospital Geral do Namibe - Ngola Kimbanda); to be delivered using Incoterms - Carriage and Insurance Paid (CIP 2020), Final Destination (Project Site) is Luanda – Angola.
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” September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.
4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain the bidding application using the link https://docs.google.com/document/d/10MhrTjOO70gLSvgzgWY_5FdVgXwCME2a/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=113948957203435193669&rtpof=true&sd=true, or further information from Angola COVID-19 Vaccine Purchase and Development Project, with the attention of Dr. Joaquim Saweka – Operational Portfolio Manager at procurement.vacinascovid@minsapfss-ao.org and inspect the bidding document during office hours 08H00 to 15H30 at the address given below.
5. The bidding document in English may be requested free of any charges, by interested Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the electronic address above. The document will be sent by e-mail.
6. Bids must be delivered to the address below on the 06th of January, 2025 no later than 12H00 (WAT). 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 06th of January, 2025 at 12H30 (WAT).
7. All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid-Securing Declaration.
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.
The address(es) referred to above is(are):
Portfolio of Health Projects of the Ministry of Health
Angola COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Project
ATT: Dr. Joaquim Saweka (Portfolio Operations Manager)
Central Coordination Unit (UCC) Rua Avenida 1º Congresso do MPLA, No 67 Edifício da Direcção Nacional de Saúde Pública (DNSP)
Tel: + 244 932 580 623
E-mail: procurement.vacinascovid@minsapfss-ao.org