ITC EOI 2014-81-GB Trade Map access to Public Tenders

INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE (ITC)

Major Upcoming Business Opportunity Notice

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)

Important: The purpose of this call for EOI is to identify appropriate suppliers who can potentially fulfil the requirements. The present call for EOI does not constitute an invitation to tender. Only suppliers deemed qualified by ITC will receive the invitation to tender.

Reference: ITC ITB 2014-81-GB Trade map access to public tenders

Date of this Call for Expression of Interest (EOI): 8 December 2014

Closing Date for Receipt of EOI at ITC/PS: 22 December 2014

Terms of Reference (summary):

Trade Map is a web application on international trade flows. The International Trade Centre (ITC) wishes to provide Trade Map users with a new service. In addition to international trade data and company information already available in Trade Map, ITC would like to broadcast information on public tenders.

In this regard, ITC is looking for companies collecting information on public tenders and able to provide ITC with a summary as well as with the detail information for each tender.

The ITC objective is to provide Trade Map users based in developing countries with a free access to public tenders. Depending on the contractor’s cost, the coverage of countries that can access public tenders in Trade Map could be decreased or increased. 

Mandatory requirements:

1. The public tender information needs to be hosted on the contractor’s database and published on the Trade Map web site through an i‑frame. A module developed by the contractor will be called by Trade Map to retrieve the public tender.
2. The contractor will have to provide a link between the public tenders and the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature. The HS codes will allow the identification of public tenders.
3. The contractor will provide ITC on a daily basis with the number of valid public tenders available in its database, by HS code and by country.
4. The coverage of public tenders available in the contractor’s database has to be worldwide.

The contractor is invited to mention any additional service that he could propose to help the Trade Map user to answer to public tenders.

ITC Procurement Services invites interested companies to forward their Expression of Interest (EOI) by fax or by email before the closing date to:

Procurement Services

International Trade Centre

Palais des Nations

1211 Geneva 10

Switzerland

batt@intracen.org

Telefax: +41 22-730 0900

Website: www.intracen.org

Please indicate your vendor ID number and the reference of this EOI in your response. If not registered with ITC/UNOG or UNGM, please follow the Procedure for Registration as Potential Vendor at www.ungm.org as soon as possible.

ITC reserves the right to change or cancel this requirement at any time during the EOI and/or solicitation process.

Please note that only those companies considered qualified by ITC for this project will be invited to participate in this procurement exercise.

For any further information on ITC, please consult our website: www.intracen.org