Procurement Summary
Country: Liberia
Summary: Establish Cocoa Seedlings Nurseries
Deadline: 01 Oct 2018
Posting Date: 02 Oct 2018
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 27178904
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Competition: ICB
Financier: Other Funding Agencies
Purchaser Ownership: -
Tender Value: Refer Document
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03111000 - Seeds
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Tender Details
Expression of Interest are invited for Establish Cocoa Seedlings Nurseries in Bong, Lofa and Nimba Counties in Liberia.
Solidaridad West Africa is implementing cocoa programmes in Liberia in an effort to promote sustainable productivity, profitability and competitiveness driven primarily by farmers’ associations and private sector supply actors in the cocoa sector of Liberia through the provision of bouquet of support services through established one-stop shops called Centers for Cocoa Development (CCDs). The CCDs will be privately run and are expected to be commercially self-financing beyond the completion of the programme in 2021. The centres will provide farmers with agronomic training and skills, production and market information, agro-inputs (planting material, fertilizer, agro-chemicals) and technical support services for improved and sustainable cocoa production. The CCDs would additionally provide other community-related production services needed to enhance farmers’ livelihoods.
As part of its cocoa programme, Solidaridad is applying part of its funds to establish high quality cocoa seedling nurseries in three counties Bong, Lofa and Nimba in Liberia. The nurseries are expected to be set up in agreed locations within the selected counties. Seedlings are expected to be ready for distribution by May, 2019.
Solidaridad is inviting proposals from suitably qualified private service providers to submit proposals to establish high quality disease-resistant cocoa seedlings nurseries that would be supplied to farmers at a cost.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
? Private companies and/or farmers’ organizations registered to do business in Liberia and has necessary documentation to develop cocoa seedling nurseries.
? A company or farmers organization must be willing to submit a technical and financial proposal based on a standard template to be provided by Solidaridad in request via email: [email protected]
APPLICATION PROCESSES AND REVIEWS
1. Submit an expression of interest (EOI) on the organization’s letter head signed by the appropriate senior person and send to the email below.
2. Solidaridad will send a confirmation email upon receipt of the EOI along with the standard proposal templates (technical and financial)
3. A Solidaridad team will review the proposal and accordingly notify applicant of the decision of the review panel.
4. Qualified applicants would be duly informed and invited for negotiations subsequent to the award of contract.
5. Solidaridad shall sign agreement with the successful applicant prior to commencement of the contract.
CORRESPONDENCE
All communications with respect to this call shall be sent to: [email protected], attention: Seedlings Nurseries Establishment In Liberia.
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