LIVESTOCK PRODUCTIVITY AND RESILIENCE SUPPORT PROJECT
AGRICULTURE/LIVESTOCK
GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE
CREDIT NO.: 70570
PROJECT ID NO.: P 160865
The Federal Republic of Nigeria has received financing in the amount of US$ 500 Million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services to be procured under this project.
The project will include the following components
Component 1: Institutional and Innovation System Strengthening: This Component will strengthen the policy and institutional foundations for improving the performance and governance of the livestock sector, with due regard to the needs for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Project support will focus on: (i) strengthening the livestock policy and regulatory framework, planning, and monitoring at the federal and state levels; and (ii) improving the capacity and capability of key institutions in the livestock innovation system to deliver public goods and services essential for improving sector productivity, increasing the resilience of the livelihoods anchored in the sector (including livelihoods in pastoral systems), reducing competition for natural resources, and reducing the sector’s negative externalities. Project support will be provided through three synergistic subcomponents.
Subcomponent 1.1: Support to Policy Formulation, Planning, and Capacity Strengthening
Subcomponent 1.2: Support to Animal Husbandry and Advisory Support Services
Subcomponent 1.3: Support to Animal Health Services Strengthening
Component 2: Livestock Value Chain Enhancement: This Component builds on herd-level improvements in productivity arising from investments under Component 1 (improved breeds, animal health, and GAHPs) to expand overall production of meat and milk and reduce imports of those commodities. To that end, it will enhance and modernize the value chain for livestock products, promote a stronger commercial/market orientation among small and medium producers, and encourage increased private investment in priority segments of the value chain, while mainstreaming climate change adaptation and mitigation measures. Project support will be provided under three subcomponents:
Subcomponent 2.1: Support to Market Linkages and Market Development
Subcomponent 2.2: Support to Increased Access to Finance
Subcomponent 2.3: Support to Selected Livestock Service Centers
Component 3: Crisis Prevention and Conflict Mitigation: Component 3 will address the most proximate causes of herder-farmer conflict: the declining quantity and quality of resources (water and rangeland), constrained access to resources, and declining social cohesion. In line with the NLTP, support will be channeled through two subcomponents, presented below.
Subcomponent 3.1: Support to Natural Resources Management and Pasture Improvement
Subcomponent 3.2: Support to Conflict Mitigation
Component 4: Project Coordination and Management: This component aims to ensure that programmed project activities are implemented in a timely and appropriate manner, with adequate support to overall project management, M&E, and communication. It will finance the creation and operation of a National Coordination Office (NCO) in FMARD with the following main objectives: (i) ensuring effective strategic and operational planning, implementation, and M&E of the project, beginning with a baseline assessment to measure the project’s progress and impacts; (ii) ensuring that all project funds are used efficiently, and coordinating project interventions implemented by participating stakeholders and partners; (iii) evaluating the project’s mid-term and final results, outcomes, and impacts on beneficiaries; (iv) supporting states to meet criteria for participating in the project; (v) supporting social risk mitigation, especially gender, labor-influx, mapping of GBV services and development of referral pathways and security risks; (vi) supporting and ensuring efficient knowledge management; and (vii) preparation and implementation of a communication strategy to support effective communication to various public and private entities on project activities, outcomes, best practices, and lessons learned. Financing under this component will also be used to create State Coordination Offices (SCOs) to lead project implementation at the state level. All activities will be implemented through input-based financing.
Component 5: Contingency Emergency Response Component: Given Nigeria’s vulnerability to shocks, the proposed project includes a Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC) with a zero-dollar allocation. The CERC provides a mechanism within the project to finance a response to a natural disaster, disease, or other eligible emergency, should one occur
The procurement items include, but are not necessarily limited to:
Procurement of Goods: Procurement of Veterinary Equipment, procurement of office and field equipment, and other critical inputs (e.g. vaccines, feed including forage and concentrated feeds for dairy cattle, starter and growth feed for poultry/layers, day-old-chicks and pullets, feed for small-ruminants fattening etc.) and small equipment/infrastructure (e.g. animal housing, fencing, livestock production tools like waterer, feeder, milk collection tools etc. Procurement of Vehicles, Motorcycles, Bicycles, and Animal Health materials, sample collection tools, IT Equipment, and Lab equipment.
Procurement of works: Works procured under this project would include milk cooling facilities, construction of abattoirs, market centers, market infrastructure; stores, sheds, construction of Veterinary Hospitals, Vaccine Storage Facilities Livestock Service Centre and Value Chain hubs. All of these work contracts are of low risk and their values are too small to attract international contractors’ participation. Hence, open national bidding procedures may be more suitable.
Procurement of Consulting Services: The project will make use of consultant services for IVA, Impact Evaluation, Geospatial assignment, training, technical assistance, and other capacity-building activities, farmer survey, M&E studies, studies to integrate land use system, financial management agency services, independent procurement audits and annual financial audits of program activities. Several suitable national individual consultants and experts, and consulting firms as well as international consultants will also be procured and there are no expected major risks in these areas.
Majority of the consultancy services to be procured by the Project are to be conducted during the first three years. There is a sizable number of Individual Consultants employed as part of the PCU staff and for other technical assistance services who are going to be sourced from both the national and international markets.
Particularly for the procurement of the main consulting services such Infrastructural Engineering Services, Concept development, design specification and requirements for Livestock Service Center and Value Chain Hubs will be procured either National or Internationally.
Procurement of Non-Consulting Services: This includes procurement of preparation and production of training and learning materials for Radio campaigns (incl. program development), Television programs (production of documentary film), preparation of Livestock and provision for translation of documents in local languages, Engagement of Security and Cleaning Service Providers.
Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (July 2016) (Procurement Regulations) and is open to all eligible firms and individuals as defined in the Procurement Regulations. After project negotiations, the World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection.
Specific procurement notices for contracts subject to open international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business online, on the World Bank’s external website and name of newspaper of national circulation in the Borrower’s country and official gazette (if required under national legislation).
Prequalification/Initial Selection of suppliers and contractors will be required for the following contracts Not Applicable Interested eligible firms and individuals who would wish to be considered for the provision of goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services for the above-mentioned project, or those requiring additional information, should contact the Borrower at the address below:
Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project(L-PRES) – National Coordination Office (NCO)
Sanusi Abubakar, National Project Coordinator
77 Kwame Nkrumah Crescent, Asokoro, Abuja, Nigeria
+234 803 474 5010, +234 803 560b 7463
barkanteje10@gmail.com Sanusi.abubakar@lpresnigeria.gov.ng
mail@lpresnigeria.gov.ng kunle.adsoye@lpresnigeria.gov.ng
