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| EOI: For the Provision of Transport and Logistics Services at WFP |
EOI: For the Provision of Transport and Logistics Services at WFP
Express of Interest (EOI) for the Provision of Transport and Logistics Services for WFP Tanzania (2024 – 2025).Express of Interest (EOI) for the Provision of Transport and Logistics Services for WFP Tanzania (2024 -2025).
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is a humanitarian organization that works with the government and other partners to improve food security and nutrition for vulnerable populations, especially in areas affected by poverty, malnutrition, gender inequality, and climate change. WFP relies on an efficient supply chain network to deliver assistance to people in need.
WFP Tanzania is inviting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from qualified and competent service providers for transport and logistics services in Tanzania. Interested companies are requested to submit their expressions no later than 04 February 2024,16:00 hrs. via email to tanzania.contracting@wfp.org, with the subject line “Express of Interest for the Provision of Transport and Logistics Services.” Companies should specify the services they are interested in, as outlined in Table I below: Table I: Transport and Logistics Services
| S/N | Service Required | Service Description |
| 1 | Transport Services | • Overland transport services: Will entail transport services
mainly for relief food commodities s from Dar Ports and WFP warehouses
in, Dodoma to destinations outside Tanzania to the Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya’ and Malawi.
• Inland transport services: Will require transportation of mainly relief food commodities from Dar port, Dodoma’ and other regions for delivery to WFP warehouses within Tanzania including to the refugee camps in Kigoma region. |
| 2 | Customs Clearance Services | • Performing customs clearance services for transit, import, and export of mainly relief food commodities and non-food items (including vehicles, equipment, and other materials). |
| 3 | Fumigation and Spraying Services | Performing fumigation and spraying services, of relief food commodities in WFP warehouses mainly at Dar Port, Dodoma, Kigoma Port, and refugee camps in the Kigoma region. |
| 4 | Tally Services | • Performing Tally Services associated with cargo movement including receipt to the warehouse, dispatch from the warehouse, shunting within the warehouse, and all other movements of cargo. |
| 5 | Cargo Handling and Cleaning Services | • Loading/offloading of humanitarian food commodities from
trucks/trailers/wagons. mainly in WFP warehouses at Dar Port, Dodoma,
Kigoma Port • Stacking of cargo in the warehouse/ onto trucks/trailers/wagons. • Rebagging of food commodities • Cleaning services including warehouse, mobile storage tents, etc. at Dar Port, Dodoma, and Kigoma Port. |
| 6 | Maize and Wheat Grain (specify) Milling Services | • Registered milling service companies for grains including Maize, Wheat, and Sorghum in Dar, Dodoma, Kigoma, Iringa, Makambako, Songea, Mbeya, Songwe, Sumbawanga, Kahama, and Kigoma. Owning the milling facility with good internal control measures and having the capacity to do fortification and storage capacity for grain stock. |
| 7 | Warehouse Lease | • Provide warehouse rental service located in Dar Es Salaam
and Dodoma that is in good condition without major repairs required,
accessible at a good location near a main road, and preferably
accessible by railway.
• Minimum size required, covered storage area, is no less than 5,000 SQM and can at least hold up to 10,000 MT of food commodities with adequate open area for trucks to turn, maneuver and park. |
Qualified service providers are requested to complete a WFP Questionnaire (please contact tanzania.contracting@wfp.org to obtain a copy) and submit a filled Questionnaire form together with the requested supporting documents by 18 February 2024,12 noon.
Please note that this is not an Invitation to Tender. Rates/prices are not required at this stage, and this invitation does not bind the World Food Programme to issue any tenders or contracts to the companies expressing their interest.
“WFP encourages service providers to be inclusive of persons with disabilities. A disability-inclusive service provider makes a dedicated, consistent, and measurable effort to implement disability-inclusive practices. Service Providers’ can show that they are disability-inclusive through a variety of means such as instance, having an organizational policy on disability inclusion, recruiting, and hiring people with disabilities, offering reasonable accommodation to candidates and personnel with disabilities, providing accessible premises, or ensuring that their supply chains are disability-inclusive. WFP DOES NOT CHARGE ANY REGISTRATION FEES.
WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE.
All queries, strictly related to this expression of interest should be directed to tanzania.contracting@wfp.org.
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