Specific Procurement Notice

Request for Bids

Goods

(One-Envelope Bidding Process)

Country: Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Name of Project: Support for Autonomous Higher Education Project

Name of Sub component project: Enhancing Capacity in Science and Technology and Human Resources Training to Contribute to the National Agricultural Restructuring and New Rural Development

Package Title: Equipment for Training for 4 lots including Lot 1. Engineering, Lot 2. Food Technology, Biotechnology, Agronomy, Lot 3. Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine, and Lot 4. Land Management, Environment, Fisheries.

Loan No./Credit No./ Grant No.: Cr. 6036-Vietnam

RFB Reference No.: VNUA-G01

1.    The Socialist Republic of Vietnam has received a financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Support for Sub component project: “Enhancing Capacity in Science and Technology and Human Resources Training to Contribute to the National Agricultural Restructuring and New Rural Development” of “Support for Autonomous Higher Education Project”, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract Equipment for Training for 4 lots including Lot 1. Engineering, Lot 2. Food Technology, Biotechnology, Agronomy, Lot 3. Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine, and Lot 4. Land Management, Environment, Fisheries.

2.     Vietnam National University of Agriculture now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for procurement of:

-       Lot 1: Engineering, including 58 items;

-       Lot 2: Food Science and Technology, Biotechnology, Agronomy, including 432 items;

-       Lot 3. Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine, including 212 items;

-       Lot 4: Land Management, Environment, Fisheries, including 214 items.  

3.    Bidders may Bid for one or several contracts, as further defined in the request for bids document. Bidders wishing to offer discounts in case they are awarded more than one contract will be allowed to do so, provided those discounts are included in the Letter of Bid.

Bid evaluation and contract award shall be for each individual lot.

4.    Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers”, July 2016 (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

5.    Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information and inspect the bidding document during office hours (from 8:00am to 11:00am and from 2:00pm to 5:00pm, except weekends and holidays) at the address given below:

       Office of University Project Management Unit –VNUA (SAHEP-VNUA)

Vietnam National University of Agriculture

Trau Quy, Gia Lam, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Email: Sahep-vnua@vnua.edu.vn,

Tel: + 84 024 62617549 and Fax: +84 02462617586

6.    The bidding document in English may be purchased by interested Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of USD 200 (Two hundred US dollars) or equivalent in VND. The method of payment will be in cash or direct deposit to account No. 3120201005770 at the VIETNAMBANK FOR AGRICULTURE, GIALAM BRANCH – Trau Quy, Gia Lam, Hanoi, Vietnam.  The document will be sent by airmail for overseas delivery and surface mail or courier for local delivery. Bidders who wish to receive bidding documents through courier services should submit an additional amount of 250 USD for overseas delivery.

7.    Bids must be delivered to the address: The Office of SAHEP-VNUA, Room No. 225, the Second Floor, Administration Building, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Trau Quy, Gia Lam, Hanoi, Vietnam on or before 14:00pm on January 27, 2021. Electronic Bidding will not be permitted. 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: Meeting Room No.2, the Second Floor, Administration Building, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Trau Quy, Gia lam, Hanoi, Vietnam on 14:00pm on January 27, 2021.

8.    All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of: 11,000 USD (Eleven thousand US Dollars) for Lot 1. Engineering; 30,000 (Thirty thousand US Dollars) for Lot 2. Food Technology, Biotechnology, Agronomy; 21,000 USD (Twenty-one thousand US Dollars) for Lot 3. Animal Science, Veterinary Medicine; and 30,000 (Thirty thousand US Dollars) for Lot 4. Land Management, Environment, Fisheries.

9.    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.

10.  The address referred to above is:

Name of office: The Office of SAHEP-VNUA

Name of officer and title: Ms. Le Thi Bich Lien, Coordinator of SAHEP-VNUA or Mr. Vo Van Nam, Procurement Section of SAHEP-VNUA

Postal address and/or street address, postal code, city and country: Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Trau Quy Township, Gia Lam District, Hanoi City, Vietnam

Telephone number, country and city codes: +84 024 62617549

Facsimile number, country and city codes: +84 024 62617586

Email address: sahep-vnua@vnua.edu.vn

Website address: http://www.vnua.edu.vn