REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The Zambia Electronic Clearing House Limited (ZECHL), is a non-profit making private limited company registered under the Companies Act No. 10 of 2017 of the laws of Zambia. It is a private company limited by Shares. It was formed in 1999 and the current Shareholders are the Bank of Zambia and the Commercial Banks.

The Company was formed for the purpose of providing interbank clearing and switching services to the Bank of Zambia, Commercial Banks and Financial Institutions. The ZFCHL operates the National Financial Switch (NFS) and the Cheque Truncation System (CTS), which are common/shared payment gateways that facilitate efficient and secure payment processing and interconnectivity between multi-payment institutions within the country. Supported interoperable services on the platform include ATM, POS, EFT, CIC, and Mobile transactions all taking place across participant networks. Extended to this service is the role of performing daily industry net settlement reporting for each participant and provide an approved clearing cycle.

In addition to the above services, the ZECHL has embarked on the following national projects with the aim to foster development of new payment solutions and expand service outreach into regional markets supporting the financial inclusion agenda, open banking and go-cashless strategies. These include:

1. Shared Agency Banking
2. Standardized National QR Code payments
3. Cross-Border Payments/remittances
4. Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
5. Centralized e-KYC

The ZECHL is inviting proposals from qualified and experienced brand experts and graphic designers to provide logo redesign, branding, and graphic services for the ZFCHL, to give it a fresh look.

PROVISION OF LOGO REDESIGN, BRANDING, AND GRAPHIC SERVICES – PROCUREMENT NO. ZECHL/003/07/2024