Agriculture Resilience and Competitiveness Project

Project: P171266 - Agriculture Resilience and Competitiveness Project Financing: World Bank GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AGRICULTURE RESILIENCE AND COMPETITIVENESS PROJECT Project ID No. P171266 LOAN NO. 9359-BA The Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has received financing in the amount of US$ 80.0 million equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Agriculture Resilience and Competitiveness Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, works, non-consulting services and consulting services to be procured under this project. The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase climate resilience and competitiveness of the agriculture sector. The project will include the following components: Component 1: Enhancing Public Support Resilience and Traceability. (a) Enhancing agriculture information systems, through, inter alia : (i) enhancement of the farm and client register, including establishing new registers, information systems and web portals, as might be necessary; (ii) development of a payment system; (iii) strengthening the existing agricultural information system; and (iv) establishment of the Farm Accountancy Data Network; (b) Supporting climate-resilient agriculture, through, inter alia : (i) improvement of seed quality and production, (ii) activities to increase farmers’ awareness of possible climate change impacts; and (iii) improvement of extension services delivery, including through developing of related information systems, registers and web portals, as well as providing support to producers to comply with good agricultural practices, integrated pest management and climate risk assessment and interventions in value chains; (c) Enhancing agriculture information system’s capacities for the benefit of MoFTER. Component 2: Improving Agriculture Productivity, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Enhancing Linkages with Markets. (a) Strengthening value chains and developing productive partnerships through: (i) provision of Matching Grants to eligible Beneficiaries for carrying out Matching Grant Subprojects with the aim to support: input supply, marketing of horticulture and livestock products in the internal and external markets, and increase of knowledge and capacity of the Beneficiaries; (ii) technical assistance to the Beneficiaries to comply with the market requirements; and (iii) awareness activities to promote the Matching Grants. (b) Improving irrigation and drainage systems for climate change adaptation Sub-projects, including: (i) construction of new, and rehabilitation and modernization of selected existing irrigation and drainage systems, including the preparation of the feasibility and design studies; and (ii) strengthening of irrigation and drainage management institutions, including capacity building of selected local administrative bodies, WUAs and local utility companies, development of a database of all irrigation systems and assessment of their functionalities, and development of the drainage information management system. Component 3: Enhancing Food Quality and Safety (a) Enhancing food quality and safety standards, through, inter alia : (i) strengthening selected food quality and safety institutions’ capacities in disease and pests controls, traceability, inspections, risk assessment, as well as laboratory capacity and testing in food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary areas; (ii) alignment with the relevant EU legislation and international standards and requirements; (iii) investments into veterinary, inspection, food quality and safety infrastructure, including procurement of necessary laboratory and IT equipment, as well as consumables, and Training. (b) Strengthening IT systems for food safety enhancement with the purpose of alignment and compliance with EU requirements, through, inter alia , development and upgrading of IT software and hardware systems in veterinary, food safety and plant health areas. (c) Review and upgrade of the veterinary IT systems, upgrade of the phytosanitary system, and of the food safety system for the benefit of MoFTER and FSA. Component 4: Project Management This Component relates to coordination, administration, monitoring and evaluation of the Project. Procurement of contracts financed by the World Bank will be conducted through the procedures as specified in the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers (July 2016, revised November 2017 and August 2018) (Procurement Regulations) , and is open to all eligible firms and individuals as defined in the Procurement Regulations . After project negotiations, the World Bank shall arrange the publication on its external website of the agreed initial procurement plan and all subsequent updates once it has provided a no objection. Specific procurement notices for contracts subject to open international competitive procurement will be announced, as they become available, in UN Development Business online, on the World Bank’s ext