Provision of Logistics and Catering Services

Item Description:

The International Trade Centre (ITC), is a joint subsidiary organ of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.

The ITC South Sudan Jobs Creation and Trade Development Project was created to help create jobs for the people of South Sudan by boosting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) working in the fruit and vegetables sectors. Enterprises in both rural and urban areas will be benefiting from the project’s intervention. Youth between 15 and 34 years of age will be primary beneficiaries of the project.

ITC is lending its international expertise and providing training opportunities to help these businesses build up their capacities and skills. The project is also responding to the need for jobs for women and youth, by building up local entrepreneurship and business management capacities. The project has an overall objective of improving the livelihoods of targeted South Sudanese populations through the creation of jobs and income.

ITC is looking for a company to provide logistics support to various capacity building trainings throughout South Sudan, from now until August 2024. These trainings will be working toward the objectives of:

1. Train MSMEs in market and buyer identification, marketing approach and business negotiation skills
2. Develop and provide training on business management and entrepreneurship

The locations of these events will be the Central Equatoria States of Rejaf, Kator, Gondokoro, Juba-nabari, Lokiliri, Jebe Lado, Kworijik and Luri, and the Western Equatoria States of Yambio and Nzara. It is estimated that ITC will host (per each location mentioned above) 3 events in 2022, 6 events in 2023 and 3 events in 2024. Each event will last approximately 2 days. To give a better idea of the time involved, for 2022, that would mean ITC will need 60 days of logistic services total (2 days x 10 locations x 3 events).

The exact services needed include (estimated number of attendees per event is 50 people):

• Tent
• Chairs
• Table
• Flipcharts with stand
• Stationary (pens, markers, notebooks)
• Food (breakfast snacks, traditional lunch, mineral water, soda)
• COVID-19 facemasks

ITC Procurement Services invites interested companies to forward their Expression of Interest (EOI) by email before the closing date to:

Procurement Services
International Trade Centre
54-56 Rue de Montbrillant
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
arndt@intracen.org
Website: http://www.intracen.org

Please indicate your vendor ID number and the reference of this EOI in your response. If not registered with ITC/UNOG or UNGM, please follow the Procedure for Registration as Potential Vendor at http://www.ungm.org as soon as possible.

ITC reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement at any time during the EOI and/or solicitation process.

Please note that only those companies considered qualified by ITC for this project will be invited to participate in this procurement exercise.

For any further information on ITC, please consult our website: http://www.intracen.org

Documents

2022-36-WA EOI.pdf