REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL TRANSPORT SERVICES

Heifer International is an equal-opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with some form of specially abled.

Since 1944, Heifer International has helped more than 36 million families lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.

Our goal is to help families achieve living incomes, which will allow them to feed their families daily, educate all their children; and have proper housing, water, hygiene, and other essential resources. When many families gain this new sustainable income, it brings new opportunities for building schools, creating agricultural cooperatives, forming community savings, and funding small businesses.

Heifer International Zambia is requesting quotations from registered firms to provide transport services.

The Request for Proposals (RFP) further specifies the specifications of all the information that the firms will need to provide a formal quote as indicated below:

Scope:

Transport services for household goods, office furniture, materials, records, appliances, and equipment typically found in a home and professional setting. All Labor, supervision, tools, equipment, transportation, permits, fees, taxes, incidentals, and materials necessary to perform move are to be included and provided by the contractor.

Locations:

The first transport services will take place from home in Chipata (Eastern Province) and the destination shall be Lusaka (Lusaka Province). The second transport services will take place from home in Choma (Southern Province) and the destination shall be Lusaka (Lusaka Province). All materials are to be provided by the contractor (i.e., boxes/bins/crates, carts, packing protection, etc.). All goods are to be wrapped in protective materials to ensure they are protected from any minor or major damage.

The contractor will be required to assemble/disassemble, takedown/setup furniture if needed for transport/moving.

Prospective Bidders are required to submit the following:

• A single quotation for a 10-ton containerized truck
• Company Profile
• Registration/Incorporation Certificate from PACRA or Registrar of Societies.
• Evidence of similar past or completed or ongoing delivery works in the last 3 years.
• Tax Clearance Certificates from ZRA for the last two (2) years for non-cooperatives.
• Terms of payments.

The quotations must be submitted on or before 12:00hrs on 5th June 2024 to the following email address below:

Email: procurement-zm@heifer.org

For further information please contact:

Heifer Procurement on:

+260965 – 256996