(UPDATED) GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

Country:

Laos

City/Locality:

Vientiane

Notice/Contract Number:

Publication Date:

Oct 19, 2007

Funding Agency:

World Bank

Buyer:

Second Education Development Project
Ministry of Education

Original Language:

English

Address:

Chaleun Souvong
Project Director
Second Education Development Project Unit
Lane Xang Avenue
Vientiane
Laos

Telephone:

(856-21) 243-672

Fax:

(856-21) 216-006

Email:

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LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
Ministry of Education
Second Education Development Project (EDPII)
Credit No. 3886-LA/Grant No.H0840-LA

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

This GPN updates that appeared in UNDB on February 3, 2005 with regard to Second Education Development Project.

The Lao Ministry of Education (the “MoE”) has receive a Credit in the amount of US$5.3 million and the Grant in the amount of US$7.7million from the International Development Association equivalent toward the cost of the Second Education Development Project and it intends to apply the proceeds of the credit and grant to payments for goods, works, related services and consulting services to be procured under this project.

The Project contributes to the achievement of universal completion of primary education in the long term, and its specific objective is to increase primary school enrollment and completion in the 19 poorest districts of the six poorest provinces in Lao PDR (Attapeu, Houaphanh, Luangnamtha, Oudomxay, Phongsaly and Xekong). The Project is financed in part by a grant and a credit from the International Development Agency of the World Bank Group.

The Project has three components. The first increases access and completion of primary education in the poorest districts by financing (i) community-based contracting for classroom construction, (ii) community grants for schooling program to lower the cost of education to communities, and (iii) in-service teacher training. The second component improves the quality of primary education by financing textbooks and teachers ' guides, and strengthening the assessment of student learning outcomes. The third component strengthens capacities for policy analysis and management within the MoE. Whereas the first component targets resources in the poorest districts in the provinces of Phongsaly, Luangnamtha, Oudomxay, Houaphan, Xekong and Attepeu, the second and third components have a national coverage.

Procurement of contracts financed by the Loan and Grant will be conducted through the procedures specified in the World Bank's Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits, January 1995 (revised January and August 1996, September 1997 and January 1999), and is open to all bidders as defined in the guidelines. Consulting services will be selected in accordance with the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, January 1997 (revised September 1997 and January 1999, and May 2002).

Specific procurement notices for contracts to be bided under the World Bank’s international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures and for consultants’ contracts will be announced, as they become available, in the United Nations’ Development Business.

Interested eligible bidders who wish to be included on the mailing list to receive an invitation to bid under ICB procedures, and interested consultants who wish to receive a copy of the advertisement requesting expressions of interest for consultants’ contracts, or those requiring additional information, should contact:

Mr. Chaleun Souvong
Project Director
Second Education Development Project
Lanexang Avenue
Vientiane, Lao PDR
Tel : (856-21) 243 672
Fax : (856-21) 216 006
Email : edpiimoe@laopdr.com

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