SELECTION OF CONSULTING FIRMS BY THE WORLD BANK GROUP
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)
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ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
Assignment Title: Guinea - Agriculture by-products, fish feed formula and local production
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ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
The fisheries sector is anessential component of the Guinean economy. It accounts for an estimated 4.5per cent of the GDP in 2020 and is dominated by small scale fisheries. Thefishery sector is estimated to provide 238,000 jobs (direct and indirect) andsupport the livelihoods of just over one million people in Guinea, or 7.5percent of the national population. This sector is also an important contributorto the food security of the population. In 2022, the Guinean Government adoptedan ambitious halieutic and aquaculture strategy and associated investment planfor 2023-2027 based on the recent assessment of the sector, to address the maindevelopment challenges of the sector. A strategic orientation of the Strategyis the socio-economic development of aquaculture to improve the food securityof the Guinean population. Indeed, aquaculture is the fisheries sector inGuinea that has the greatest development potential and can contribute in themedium term to increase the national fish supply and reduce the trade deficitin fisheries products.
The World Bank has been workingwith Guinea for several years to support various sectoral reforms important forthe country's transition to a sustainable blue economy. The World Bank hassupported the fisheries sector through the West Africa Regional FisheriesProject (WARFP) which ended in December 2021 with very positive results inGuinea. A new project, Guinea - Climate Resilience, Food Security andFisheries, which aims to strengthen food and nutritional security and increasethe income of beneficiary communities, is currently under preparation. Thisstudy will inform the preparation of the Climate Resilience, Food Security andFisheries - Guinea project by providing the World Bank with the necessaryknowledge and technical elements to advise the Government on the opportunitiesand priority investments for the development of the aquaculture sector inGuinea.
The proposed work constitutes aprerequisite for the socio-economic development of aquaculture to improve thefood security of the Guinean population. The specific objective of the study isto address the current questions on the availability of agricultural productsand by-products in sufficient quantity and quality to propose anintensification under technical and economic conditions of production favorableto the development of semi-intensive aquaculture.
Indeed, fish farmers will notinvest in a higher level of intensification than the existing one if they donot have access to quality inputs at a price that maintains the profitabilityof the activity.
After having identified thedifferent agricultural products and by-products currently used by fish farmersto feed fish in Guinea, and the factors influencing their use, the objective ofthe study is thus: (i) to carry out an inventory of the agricultural productsand by-products available in Guinea that can be used as ingredients of a basicfish feed for semi-intensive aquaculture, (ii) to define the compositions andformulations of these feeds for semi-intensive farming, (iii) to carry out thePreliminary Draft Summaries of pilot fish farming feed manufacturing units, andto provide elements for the technical and economic analysis of these productionunits.
FUNDING SOURCE
The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment / services described below under the following:
- BB: Bank Budget
- TF0C0581: PROBLU
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The World Bank Group invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested firms must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. for firms; CV and cover letter for individuals). Please note that the total size of all attachments should be less than 5MB. Firms may associate to enhance their qualifications unless otherwise stated in the solicitation documents. Where a group of firms associate to submit an EOI, they must indicate which is the lead firm. If shortlisted, the firm identified in the EOI as the lead firm will be invited to the request for proposal (RFP) phase.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through WBGeProcure RFx Now
NOTES
Following this invitation for EOI, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding.
Only those firms which have been shortlisted will be invited to participate in the RFP phase. No notification or debrief will be provided to firms which have not been shortlisted.
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