[ALBSA-Info] Doing Business in Tirana

[Agron Alibali]

ALBANIA
TIRANA TRANSPARENCY PROJECT Grant No.: TF050034GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE 
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The Government of Albania is finalizing a Grant Agreement from the Netherlands and administered by International Development Association (IDA) in the amount of US$ 614,000 equivalent toward the cost of the Tirana Transparency Project, and it intends to apply the proceeds of this Grant to payments for goods, works, related services and consulting services to be procured under this project.

The project will include the following components:

o Consulting services for design, test, and analysis Citizens' Report Card; Local Consultanting services to create a municipal strategy, administer and analyse the CRC; International consultant to build capacity of municipal stakeholders to access and use information generated; Consultant to design computerisation strategy for citizens information center.

o Equipment for citizens information center: and local government staff (work stations, printers, scanner, servers, copiers, furniture, UPS, software, internet access faxes, cabling, phones, supplies and consumables; Furniture (desks, chairs, book shelves, brochure stands, etc.) 

o Works for small rehabilitation of the centers' main hall of Tirana Municipality.

Procurement of contracts financed by the credit 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 from eligible source countries 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).

Specific procurement notices for contracts to be bid under the World Bank's international competitive bidding (ICB) procedures and for large-value consultants' contracts will be announced, as they become available, in Development Business and in local newspaper.

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 large-value consultants' contracts, or those requiring additional information, should contact the address below.

Project Implementation Unit
Ministry of Finance
Bulevardi "Deshmoret e Kombit"
Tirana, Albania
Tel: +355 42 27941
Fax: +355 42 27941
E-mail: rtpiumof at icc-al.org



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