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General Procurement Notice for Procurement of Goods, Works and the Acquisition of Consulting Services for the Scaling-Up Investment and Technology Transfer to Facilitate Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Stockholm and Minamata Conventions in African LDCs (AFLDC-2) Zambia Multinational: Scaling-Up Investment and Technology Transfer to Facilitate Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Stockholm and Minamata Conventions in African LDCs (AFLDC-2) The AFLDC-2 project has four components: Component 1: Strengthening the enabling environment and national enforcement capacities for the management and phase-out of POPs, mercury and its compounds; Component 2: Communicating the environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes; Component 3: Actions to reduce and, wherever possible, eliminate the manufacture, trade, use, emission and release of POPs, mercury and its compounds; Component 4: Monitoring and evaluation, learning and adaptive feedback. 4. The procurement activities under the project, as detailed in the National Procurement Plan (NPP) 20262029 for Zambia, comprise: consultancy services (consulting firms recruited by international competitive selection for the enabling-environment, communication and environmental and social impact assessment flagship packages; national experts and individual consultants selected under CQS and ICS; an external audit firm selected under least-cost selection where applicable); goods and non-consulting services (office equipment, workshop venue and facilitation services, media services, procured mainly through Shopping); and works (national open competitive bidding for storage and investment-related interventions, where applicable). 5. In addition to the nationally executed packages, the project includes regional activities financed from the regional envelope of USD 783,474 for Zambia under the NPP, which are procured and administered directly by the AfDB on behalf of the participating countries. These comprise, as applicable per the NPP: regional workshops held back-to-back with the meetings of the Regional Project Steering Committee; a regional industry conference; a regional plastics circular-economy forum, fair and conference; project representation at meetings of Regional Cooperation Bodies; international POPs and mercury convention experts supporting the legislative gap analyses, enforcement guidance and training; pooled regional expert inputs to the capacity-building of public officials, communication, curriculum adaptation and awareness-raising; regional collection and destruction service providers for POPs pesticides and PCBs, and regional export and treatment services for mercury-added products and mercury waste; international expert inputs to the assessment, design and technical follow-up of the investment interventions; regional monitoring and evaluation activities (project knowledge hub and website, mid-term review, terminal evaluation and gender oversight); and the AfDB execution share of project management costs. Specific procurement notices for these regionally administered activities will be issued by the Bank. 6. The procurement of goods, works and the acquisition of consulting services financed by the Bank for the project will be carried out in accordance with the Procurement Framework for Bank Group Funded Operations, dated October 2015, available on the Banks website at http://www.afdb.org, and in line with the provisions stated in the Grant Agreement. Prior review applies to the flagship international competitive selections, major works and the external audit; other packages follow post review, as reflected in the NPP. Tender Link : https://www.afdb.org/en/projects-and-operations/procurement
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