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Invitation to Bid for the Supply of Breeding Goats
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Date posted
April 17, 2025
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Closing date
April 25, 2025
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Hiring location
Jigjiga
Description
Tender description
Procurement Reference No.: VSFS/ETH/2025/02-WFP
Background
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières – Suisse (VSF-Suisse) is a development-oriented, politically and religiously neutral non-profit international non-governmental organization (INGO) headquartered in Berne, Switzerland. Activities range from emergency relief to long-term development, with projects in Togo, Mali, South Sudan, Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. VSF-Suisse envisions having healthy people live and derive their livelihoods from healthy livestock in a sustainable, healthy and peaceful environment.
VSF-Suisse is an independent, humanitarian, and development organization with a long-standing presence in Ethiopia, supporting pastoral and agro-pastoral communities through livestock-based interventions. Currently, VSF-Suisse is implementing the project titled "Strengthening the Resilience of Vulnerable Groups in the Context of Desert Locust Infestation in Ethiopia," funded by the World Food Programme (WFP). This project is being implemented in the Harshin and Mula districts of Fafen Zone and the Erer district of Sitti Zone, Somali Region.
About You
A core intervention of the project is the restocking of small ruminants (goats) to restore the livelihoods of highly vulnerable, resource-poor, female-headed households affected by the desert locust crisis. Under this initiative, each selected household will receive 10 breeding goats (9 does and 1 buck) to strengthen their economic resilience and enhance food and nutrition security.
To facilitate this intervention, VSF-Suisse invites eligible and competent livestock marketing cooperatives operating within the project target zones to submit sealed bids for the supply and delivery of 3,000 high-quality breeding goats that meet the technical specifications outlined below.
The tender needs to be submitted as completed tender /bid documents, one original marked "Original "and one copy marked "copy "by stating the tender name and reference number with wax-sealed envelope deposited on the Tender Box at VSF-Suisse's Jigjiga office within nine working days from the date of advertisement, i.e. Until April 25, 2025, 2:00 PM afternoon. The technical and financial proposals must be placed together in a sealed envelope.
How to apply
For further information contact: address: VSF Suisse Jigjiga Field Office is located in Jigjiga City,Kebele 010, Zone 2 House N.01386
Jigjiga Field Office +251915051992, +251915782341 or +251912668536
VSF-Suisse Ethiopia
Overview
VSF Germany has been implementing projects in Somalia since 2005, and added a total of six projects to its portfolio in 2020, five of which were in Somaliland and one in Puntland. These were implemented with the aim of improving food security and livelihoods through resilience building of vulnerable communities affected by shocks, improving household dietary diversity and coping strategies, improving infrastructure and handling facilities in the meat and milk value chains, strengthening service delivery capacity of public and private institutions and enhancing adaptive and transformative capacity of pastoral and agro-pastoral households. Furthermore, Donkey welfare concerns were addressed.
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Founded in
2010
Location
Berlin Nairobi