Construction of two Primary Livestock Market centers ( LOT 1 : Dulessa woreda , LOT 2: Megale wreda ) — Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project, Phase Two (LLRP II)

Specific Procurement Notice – Request for Bids Small Works (One-Envelope Bidding Process) Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Project: Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project – Phase Two (LLRP-II) Contract Title: Construction of Two Primary Livestock Market Centers (Lot 1: Dulessa Woreda; Lot 2: Megale Woreda) RFB Reference No.: ET-AFR-RPCU-589811-CW-RFB Credit No.: IDA-7519-ET The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project – Phase Two (LLRP-II), and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contracts for the Construction of Two Primary Livestock Market Centers (Lot 1: Dulessa Woreda; Lot 2: Megale Woreda). The Afar National Regional State, Office of the President, Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II) Regional Project Coordination Unit, now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for the construction of two primary livestock market centers in two lots: Lot 1 – Dulessa Woreda and Lot 2 – Megale Woreda. The construction period is 7 months for each lot. Bidders may bid for one or both lots Bidding will be conducted through national competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers”, Seventh Edition, 2025 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II), Afar Regional Project Coordination Unit, via e-mail at: afarllp@gmail.com, with copy to: aidahishassen@gmail.com, and inspect the bidding document during office hours, 7:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (East Africa Time) on working days, at the address given below. A complete set of bidding documents in English may be obtained upon payment free of charge by interested eligible Bidders upon submission of a written application to the address below. The document will be issued in hard copy at the address below or sent by e-mail upon request. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 16 November-, 2026, 2026, 9:30 a.m. (East Africa Time). Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below on 16 November-, 2026 , at 4:00 A.M. (East Africa Time). All bids must be accompanied by a "Bid Security" of : ETB 500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand Birr) for Lot 1 and ETB 500,000 ( five hundred thousand birr) for Lot 2, in the in the form of a CPO, made out to the name of: Afar Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project, Regional Project Coordination Unit (LLRP-II). The bid is valid for 90 days after the bid opening date. The bid security shall be valid for twenty-eight (28) days beyond the end of the validity period of the bid. The bidder must submit an original and one copy for all contracts, with both technical and financial documents sealed together in one mother envelope. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document. The employer has the right to cancel the bid partially or in full in the best of alternative advantage. The address referred to above is: Afar National Regional State, Office of the President, Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project (LLRP-II), Afar Regional Project Coordination Unit (RPCU) Attn: Procurement Office, Room No. 7 Tel: +251 33 666 0188, +251 98 986 6589, +251 912689022 E-mail: afarllp@gmail.com; aidahishassen@gmail.com Semera, Afar, Ethiopia