Provision of Inland Transportation and Related Services for UNSOS

United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) has a requirement for the provision of door-to-door Inland Transportation and Related services. Contractors will also be required to provide inland transportation service by road, Material Handling Equipment (MHE), associated labor, warehousing and yard storage, temporary bonded facilities for cross-border movements, customs clearance, and close liaison with various Government authorities to support inland movement of cargo. UNSOS intends to enter a three-year (3) contract with an option to extend for another 1 + 1 year at the sole discretion of the UN, extension of UNSOS’s mandate and satisfactory performance of the vendor. The Contractor shall provide door-to-door transportation of United Nations Owned Equipment (UNOE) and Contingent Owned Equipment (COE) from point-of-origin to different destinations. This sometimes shall require multimodal transport.The types of consignment encompassed by the Services will include military equipment, dangerous goods, vehicles, heavy equipment, UNOE, COE, temperature-sensitive and general cargo, personal effects, and household goods. The Contractor must have appropriate Material Handling Equipment (“MHE”) with appropriately qualified personnel, to handle such cargo at the various locations. Related Services include; Transportation and Transshipment/Transit arrangements,Ground Handling,Warehousing,Local Storage,Packaging and Labeling, Cargo tracking and Tracing Material Handling Equipment (MHE) and Complete Customs clearance solutions for all Ports of Entry/Exit and cross-border movement of cargo for which the Contractor is responsible along the identified routes and through the identified points of entry/exit. The List of Operational locations include; Somalia (Afgooye, Baidoa, Baledogle, Beletweyne, Bio Cadale, Bulo Burto, Cadado, Cadale, Dhobley, Dhusamareb, Garowe, Garbaharey, Hargeisa, Hero Drogo, Jowhar, Kismayo, Mogadishu, Mirtugo, Qorilow, Raga Ceel), Kenya (Garissa, Liboi, Manda, Mombasa, Nairobi), Somaliland, Puntland, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone. Specific Requirements/Information The Contractor shall be required to deliver services in accordance with the standards stipulated in the International Guidelines on Safe Load Securing for Road Transport, International Forwarding Association, ISO 9001, the terms and conditions laid out in the Contract in accordance with the United Nations General Conditions of Contracts (UNGCC) and to the satisfaction of UNSOS. Bidders must note that UNSOS will obtain quotations through a secondary bidding process, which will be implemented during the life of the contract in the form of a Request for Offer (RFO). Only those Contractors who are qualified and awarded under the initial contract will be obligated to respond to this secondary bidding process. The contract prices submitted during the initial bidding shall serve as maximum ceiling prices, which shall not be exceeded in any future responses. Detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) with the technical specifications,quantities required will be shared in the solicitation document which will be sent out to all qualified companies/vendors shortlisted for receipt of official UNPD/GPSS solicitation. To be awarded a contract, a vendor must be registered at the appropriate level with the UN Secretariat through the UNGM.