Request for Expression of Interest at Kogi State Fadama Coordination Office of Kogi Agricultural Development Project, Lokoja
Kogi State Fadama Coordination Office of Kogi Agricultural Development Project, Lokoja, Kogi State
Request for Expression of Interest as Service Providers for National Fadama Development Project – Additional Financing
This request for expressions of interest follows the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in Development Business issue No 637 and Daily Trust Newspaper of July 3, 2009 and revised on December 04, 2013.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has received additional credit from the International Development Association (IDA) towards the cost of Third National FADAMA Development Project (Fadama III) and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit and its own funds to payments under the contract for various sub-project activities in Kogi State.
The Project has the following main components:
- Component 1: Capacity Building , Communication and Information support- The capacity building subcomponent is key to the successful implementation of the Project and consequently for realizing the benefits from the subprojects funded by the Project.
- Component 2: Small- scale Community – owned Infrastructure which includes new construction or rehabilitation of irrigation facilities, on-farm storage structures, farm access roads, infrastructure for sustainable natural resource management and infrastructure etc. The funding principles is 90 percent grants and up to 10 percent of the investment cost as counterpart contributions in cash or in materials and labour by benefitting communities.
- Component 3: Advisory Services and Input Support, the project is expected to finance delivery of advisory services responsive to the needs of User Groups in production, processing, marketing, input support, including training and TA to promote saving schemes within groups and to develop linkages between farmers’ organizations and financial institutions.
- Component 4: Support to ADPs and Sponsored Research which include support to advisory service providers, quality assurance of advisory services, training of facilitators, sponsored research and on – farm demonstrations and training of extension staff.
- Component 5: Asset Acquisition for individual Fadama User Groups (FUGs) / Economic interest Groups (EIGs). The project will contribute up to 70 percent of the total cost of the demanded subproject while beneficiaries will make up- front cash payment of up to 30 percent of the demanded subproject cost.
Activities that are envisaged to be contracted out to the prospective service providers include:
a) Advisory Services on Crop Production
b) Agricultural Related Trainings /Capacity Building
c) Farm Asset acquisition
d) Community Infrastructures
e) Agricultural Input Supply
f) Cassava Out growers/ Cassava stem Multiplication
g) Cassava Agro – Processing
h) Evaluation of Proposals (Training and Advisory services)
i) Tractor Hiring/Land Clearing Services
Selection of Service Providers (SPs) will be done by the respective communities on the basis of competitive bidding. To facilitate adequate competition by competent parties, the Kogi State Fadama Coordination Office (SFCO), overseeing the implementation of the Project, now invites sealed letters of interest from eligible and competent SPs. The Kogi SFCO will prepare a list of potential bidders who meet the required qualifications and submit the list to the Producer Groups at the community level who, depending on the format they adopt, may: (a) post notices at the village and community notice boards inviting bids; or (b) send to you a formal invitation to bid, including the specifications of the subproject they would want to implement; or (c) invite you to negotiate a contract directly with them.
Eligibility Criteria:
To be eligible for consideration, service provider must provide the following details:
- Profile of your company /institution including certificate of incorporation, physical address, ownership (board membership where applicable), management structure and contacts (telephone and E-mail)
- Possession of relevant experience and skills for at least five (5) years
- For construction works, evidence of possession of required equipment.
- Evidence of financial Management systems (Accounting and internal control)
- Indicate area(s) of core competence.
Submission should be on or before 12th February, 2014 and should be addressed to:-
State Project Coordinator
Lokongoma Phase II Housing Estate, First Gate,
Behind Shopping Arcade,
Lokoja, Kogi State.
Signed
Management
