Specific Procurement Notice
Invitation for Bids [IFB]
Goods
(Two-Envelope Bidding Process)
IFB Number: SADC/3/5/1/107
Purchaser: SADC Secretariat
Project: Macroeconomic Stability and Financial Integration (MSFI)
Project in SADC Region
Contract title: Supply, delivery, and installation, of a Smart Order
Router (SOR) system, purchase of licenses, capacity
building and to develop a database management system.
Country: Multinational SADC Secretariat
Loan No. / Grant No.: 2100155041084
Procurement Method: Open Competitive Bidding (International) (OCBI)
OCBI No: SADC/3/5/1/107
Issued on: 07 March 2025
1. The SADC Secretariat has received financing from the African Development Bank hereinafter called the Bank toward the cost of the Macroeconomic Stability and Financial Integration (MSFI) Project in SADC Region and intends to apply part of the proceeds towards payments under the contract for the supply, delivery and installation of the Smart Order Router (SOR) System, purchase of licences, capacity building and to develop a database management system. The main objective of the assignment is to support the interconnectivity of stock exchanges in the SADC Region. For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines and procedures for Investment Project Financing, except for those payments, which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit.
2. The SADC Secretariat now invites Bids from eligible Bidders for:
i) Supply, Delivery and Installation of a Smart Order Router System
ii) Purchase of licences ;
iii) Capacity building (training of end users) ; and
iv) Develop a database management system.
NOTE:
Bidders must bid for the whole package as one lot.
Contract will be awarded for the whole package/lot.
3. Bidding will be conducted through the Open Competitive Bidding (International), (OCBI) method as specified in the Bank’s Procurement Framework for Borrowers” dated October 2015 (“Procurement Framework”), which can be found at the following website: www.afdb.org, and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the Procurement Framework.
4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Mr. Taisekwa Nyamukondiwa at SADC Secretariat and inspect the bidding document during office hours from 0800 to 1630 hours at the address given below:
Mr. Taisekwa Nyamukondiwa
SADC Secretariat
Plot 54385, New CBD Private Bag 0095,
Gaborone, Botswana
E-mail: tnyamukondiwa@sadc.int copy madams@sadc.int and hthomas@sadc.int
Tel: +267 395 1863
5. The bidding document in English may be obtained by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below. The document will be sent via email.
6. Bids must be submitted electronically to SADC Secretariat Electronic Tender Box via this LINK: https://collab.sadc.int/s/54kKyAegES7gyLd, by midnight Botswana time on or before 15 April 2025.
Your submission should be in PDF Format and signed, and should be marked ‘Supply, Delivery and Installation of the Smart Order Router System (SOR), purchase of licences, capacity building and to develop a database management system’. Electronic Bidding will be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened electronically in the presence of the duly appointed Evaluation Committee.
7. All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid-Securing Declaration.
8. “Attention is drawn to the Procurement Framework 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.”
9. The address referred to above is:
Mr. Taisekwa Nyamukondiwa
SADC Secretariat
Plot 54385, New CBD Private Bag 0095,
Gaborone, Botswana, Tel: +267 395 1863
E-mail: tnyamukondiwa@sadc.int copy madams@sadc.int and hthomas@sadc.int
