SPECIFIC PROCUREMENT NOTICE (SPN) Country General information: Country: SENEGAL City/Locality: Dakar Notice/Contract Number: MCA2/2023/COMPACT/QCBS/RE08_3/F47 Issue Date: March 7, 2024 Closing date: May 3, 2024 Funding Agency: (MCC) Millennium Challenge Corporation Buyer: Millennium Challenge Account Sénégal II (MCA-Sénégal II) Procurement name: Support for establishment of Communication Plan for CRSE Type of procurement: Request for offers (RFO) Eligibility of Bidders: Consultant firms eligible and meeting requirements set forth in the Request for offers (RFO) The Government of Senegal (“GoS”) has been selected for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (“MCC”) Grant (“Compact”) and plans to allocate a portion of the proceeds of funding to the payment of contracts for goods, services and works. The Compact includes an investment of about USD 550 million from MCC and an additional contribution of USD 50 million from the Government for a global amount of USD 600 million. It includes three major projects: The “Modernizing and Strengthening of Senelec Transmission Network” Project aims to provide quality electricity from the low-cost sources available for Senelec to meet the growing demand on the interconnected network in Senegal; The “Increasing Access to Electricity in Rural and Peri urban Areas” Project seeks to increase the quality electricity supply and demand in rural and peri urban areas in Senegal; The “Power Sector Enabling Environment and Capacity Development” Project has as objective to create an environment favorable to improving the financial viability and good governance of the sector for a quality and quantity electricity supply. This Specific Notice is supplement to the General Procurement Notice, which was issued on UN Development Business (« UNDB »), dgMarket, MCA-Senegal II web site (www.mcasenegal.sn) and the local media, le Quotidien and Le Soleil on December 28, 2023. MCA Senegal II hereby invites duly established companies to submit a offers for the provision of the above-mentioned services (“offers”). More information regarding such Consultant Services are provided in the Terms of Reference. This Request for offers is open to all eligible entities (“Consultants”) that want to submit a proposal. Subject to restrictions set forth in the RFO, Consultants can join other consultants to optimize their ability to successfully implement the contract. A consultant will be selected through the QCBS (Quality and Cost-Based Selection) method, the evaluation procedure, which is described in the RFO sections, in accordance with “MCC Program Procurement Guidelines”, which can be found on MCC Web site (www.mcc.gov/ppg). The selection process, as described, includes the review and assessment of the consultant qualifications and past performances, as well as a check of its references, before contract award. Note that prior to proposals, a conference will be held on March 20, 2024, as indicated in the Specific Data of Request for offers, in Section II of this Standard Document of Request for offers (IC 1.4). The Consultants who want offers are invited to register by email, mentioning their full contact details to the following address: MCA-Senegal II Procurement Agency E-mail:
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[email protected] Once, you are registered, the PDF version of the Request for offers (RFO) will be forwarded to you. The registration of interested Consultants will enable them to be directly informed of potential additional information and/or updates of the RFO. Offerors shall be submitted by email to the address and in the manner indicated at IO 17.1 and 18.1 of the Specific Data of the RFO, not later than May 3, 2024 at 3 pm (Dakar/Senegal time). Note that only offers transferred by email, through the Dropbox link indicated in the specific data of the RFO, will be considered. Submissions for which financial offer are not password-protected will be rejected. It is not necessary to password-protect technical offer. However, if a bidder decides to submit a password-protected technical offer, the password of the technical offer should be sent to the Procurement Agent (
[email protected]) not later than 15 minutes before the submission date and time (Dakar time). Late offers will not, in any case, be considered. Sincerely yours, MCA-Senegal II CEO DISCLAIMER: THIS NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. FOR UPDATES ON THIS SOLICITATION PLEASE FOLLOW THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE LINK PROVIDED. THIS PROCUREMENT IS NOT CONDUCTED UNDER THE FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS, IS NOT ADMINISTERED BY THE US GOVERNMENT, AND THE RESULTING AWARD WILL BE MADE BY THE COUNTRY INDICATED IN THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS PROCUREMENT PLEASE CONTRACT THE PERSON NAMED IN THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT.