Construction of New Office Facilities at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

It is anticipated that the Procurement Division of the United Nations’ Headquarters in New York, will be issuing a solicitation on the above subject requirement. In this connection, the United Nations hereby seeks to pre-qualify suitably experienced construction firms (General Contractors) with capacity to provide and carry out the construction work required to a short list of companies. Eligible construction firms (General Contractors) from the Short List, who can meet all of the pre-qualification criteria stated in the EOI Response Form, may be invited to the RFP tender. The requirement envisages selection of a single construction firm (General Contractor) to undertake construction work of additional office facilities at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In accordance with General Assembly’s resolution 56/270 of March 2002, the area of the intended new six storey, reinforced concrete office building plus ground floor and basement that is to be built in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, of approximately 11,000 square meters. It is intended that the above Work shall be completed in approximately 675 calendar days after receipt of Notice-to-Proceed. The General Contractor shall prove capable of providing enough manpower; financial resources and equipment to perform the whole scope of work in the mentioned schedule. The invitation will be open to qualified national and international companies and joint ventures. Construction firms wishing to participate must have demonstrated experience dating at least 5 (five) years back as a General Contractor, performing similar work including, but not limited to all of the above. Only those firms possessing substantial and proven record of performance and resources in this same field of activities are encouraged to participate. The successful contractor will be required to respond to the following: Pre-qualification criteria: 1. Established office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (It should be noted however that the successful contractor will be required to hold/obtain a license for such work in Ethiopia); 2. Demonstrated experience of previous projects in Ethiopia; 3. Minimum of 5 years in business performing similar projects; 4. Successful completion of comparable projects. Only those firms deemed to have adequate expertise, acceptable experience and sufficient size would be invited to participate in the subject tender. Please note that the United Nations is precluded from entering into contracts with firms that are not fully registered with the United Nations Procurement Division (UNPD). If your firm is interested in responding to this EOI, and is not currently fully registered as a Vendor with UNPD, firms would be encouraged to register now by enrolling and initiating registration processing at the following web site: www.ungm.org