ABOUT GAIN

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people. In particular, we aim to make healthier food choices more desirable, more available, and more affordable. GAIN’s mission is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition.

ABOUT KEEPING FOOD MARKETS WORKING (KFMW) PROJECT

In response to the global pandemic, GAIN has developed the Keeping Food Markets Working (KFMW) program targeted to sustain core food systems, workers and markets during COVID-19 emergency. GAIN’s goal is to mitigate the collapse of food systems by supporting food markets and the value chain companies in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), especially in Africa and Asia, which face potentially catastrophic supply and demand disruption. GAIN will achieve this by establishing an emergency response program to assess and address the challenges facing the food system. This program has the overarching goal of mitigating the risk of economic collapse of food systems to sustain the availability and affordability of nutritious and safe foods, and contribute to lowering the burden of ill-health, particularly for the most vulnerable. As such, the Keeping Food Markets Working (KFMW) Ethiopia project has three priority areas for planned interventions plus cross-cutting research:

1. Assess and identify urgent risks and opportunities to improve the market through rapid consumer and vendor communication exchange,
2. Mitigate short-term health safety risks in prioritized local food markets in Addis Ababa, informed by vendor, consumer and stakeholder insights into risks and opportunities,
3. Leverage local food markets to become safer and resilient by introducing human centered market setup designs,
4. Build capacity of market governance authorities, subject matter experts and key stakeholders to develop locally adapted guidance and actions for safe, resilient markets over the medium to longer-term,

Through effective implementation of this program GAIN Ethiopia country office aims to achieve the following basic improvements in the two target local food markets in particular and similar open food markets in Addis Ababa.

1. Upgraded Marketing Environment Invoironet This will be realized through connecting the markets to continuous water supplies and improved drainage, improved operational environment and reduced the impact of the market on the adjacent community.
2. Improved Market Infrastructure: Physical infrastructure of the target markets improved in a manner that contribute to the promotion of food safety as well as occupational health for the well-being of market participants. Setting up essential facilities such as sufficient and appropriately placed toilets for both men and women with hand-washing facilities; appropriately designed water supply for cleaning surfaces, food preparation needs, potable water for drinking and drainage system to remove solid and liquid wastes on regular basis from vending units are part of interventions.
3. Safe and Healthy Operational Environment: regulatory and voluntary actions will be taken to rearrange market-place settings to allow easy functional administrations including food inspection and access to analytical services, separating entry of the people and food into the market from waste storage and removal routes, prevent cross-contamination of commodities, enable easy movement of suppliers, vendor, workers and consumers, and ensure sufficient ventilation by allowing flow of fresh air in order to protect health and safety of market actors.

Job Requirements

INSTRUCTION WHEN SUBMITTING PRICED BOQ ALONG RETURNABLE BID SCHEDULE

Prospect bidders/Contractors are strongly advised to follow the below instructions when filling out Bill of Quantities (BoQ):

1. You are not allowed to change any item descriptions on Specifications and BOQ. Failure to abide by it will result to automatic disqualification of your bid.
2. You are only required to fill in the cells under the column “Rate/Unit Price” corresponding to works description in the currency indicated on BoQs
3. Upon filling in the Rate and/or Unit Price, all other calculations will be done automatically, meaning you do not have to temple with any other cell within this spread sheet.
4. The summary sheet will also be fill in automatically; you do not have to temple with it.
5. At the bottom of the BoQ sheet, you are also required to sign in the space left for it to authenticate the submission.
6. Please note that this BoQ forms is part of the “Returnable Bid Schedules” and as such should be returned (BOTH THE PRINTED AND DULY SIGNED FORM; and the Excel Soft Copies for Arithmetic check) along with all other documents when submitting your tender.
7. Attached are all returnable schedules to be appropriately fill in and return along with your submission.

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS

• Bidders hereby strongly advised to thoroughly read and comply with requirements under "ITB SCOPE OF WORKS and Technical Specs" attached hereto when submitting bids.
• Bidders are advised to ensure signed and bears corporate seal “Returnable Bid Schedules” are uploaded/submitted via GAIN provided email address on or before submission deadline.
• bidders are strongly advised to provide very detail as well as professionally prepared preliminary work program; statement of proposed methods; health and sanitary, environment and quality management system; and other requested information specified under each schedule. if any of these compulsory technical proposal details is/are missed, your bid is subject to “not substantially compliant” hence be rejected in due course of bid evaluation.
• Bidders MUST ENSURE PROPOSED KEY PERSONNEL match GAIN educational, work experience and language requirements and attach their respective CV, Educational testimonials and work experience supporting documents.
• Bidders MUST ENSURE to upload Renewed Business Registration/License; Certificate of Incorporation; VAT/Tax Certificate; Certificate of Competence (CoC) for GC/BC Four (4) and above by Authorized Government Entity; Audited Financial Statements of the past two (2); duly signed Certificates of Satisfactory Completion from respective Clients, and any other Supporting Documents.
• Bidders are strongly advised to submit the Excel Sheets for “PRICED BoQ Returnable Price Schedule 4” along the pdf format.
• GAIN will negotiate with bidders, if the quoted amount is exceeding the Engineer Estimate (EE) as well as prevailing market materials, labor, and construction equipment lease prices which is prepared as per the prevailing market price.
• The evaluation criteria reflect the information being requested in the Returnable Bid Schedules. Some of the Returnable Bid Schedules are marked as “Pass / Fail”, whereas evaluation criteria for some of the schedules are marked as “To be checked by GAIN and clarified if necessary”. If a bid fails a “Pass / Fail” criteria they are ineligible and require no further evaluation. If the bidders are failed to provide the clarification within the stipulated time by GAIN, then these bids shall be failed in the solicitation process. Missing historical documents in the ‘Pass / Fail’ allocating schedules may also be requested from the bidders by GAIN at its own discretion through bid clarification process.
• Bidders are STRONGLY ADVISED to CORPORATE EMAIL ACCOUNT of their referees (clients to whom a bidder managed their construction projects which could be either completed or underway) instead of commercial email.

How to Apply

1. Bidders must thoroughly read the Bidding Documents from this link
2. Both technical and financial proposal separately should be delivered in person to GAIN office within 10 working days from the bid announcement date but not later than 25th May 2021, 5:00 PM.

For any additional clarification request please call to our office phone number: Tel. 0116610088

Address: GAIN-Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Bole Sub City, Woreda 13, in front of Ethiopian Youth Sport Academy - Moya Foods Co. Building, 2nd Floor Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Here is the link to google map to our office: