ETH/ITB/2015/04 - Supply, Training and After Sales Services of Meteorological Instruments for Conventional Station

UNDP
ETH/ITB/2015/04 - Supply, Training and After Sales Services of Meteorological Instruments for Conventional Station Invitation to bid

Reference: ETH/ITB/2015/04
Beneficiary countries or territories: Ethiopia
Registration level: Basic
Published on: 08-Jul-2015
Deadline on: 06-Aug-2015 15:06 (GMT 3.00)

Description

BACKGROUND / RATIONALE

The National Meteorological Agency is mandated to establish different categories of meteorological station over Ethiopia to monitor the weather and climate of Ethiopia. It collect meteorological data from its station network, analyze the data and provide weather and climate services in the form of data, information, forecast and early warnings.  The agency has made spearhead movement in an expansion of station network across the country. Nevertheless, the agency has a lot of resource constraint in maintaining meteorological instrument, which most of them are imported as well as very expensive with the existing annual government budget. The document dictates that the NMA’s current weather observational includes

  • 1200 weather stations, mostly conventional (manual)
  • More than one hundred automated weather stations and one upper air observing system.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE SUPPLY OF GOODS / EQUIPMENT / TECHNOLOGIES

The objective of the project is to rehabilitate all first-class meteorological station over Ethiopia by fulfilling all missing equipment as per the WMO required standards and quality.  

It is, therefore, UNDP Ethiopia on behalf of government beneficiary hereby invites potentially qualified bidders to supply the following product and service specifications and/or “its equivalent”:

  • Maximum thermometer
  • Minimum Thermometer
  • Dry bulb Thermometer
  • Wet bulb thermometer
  • Measuring cylinder
  • Evaporation Gauge Pitch type (Piche Evaporimeter)
  • Wind vane (Wild type)
  • Sunshine Recorder
  • Actinograph
  • Thermo hygrograph
  • Counter Anemometer
  • Digital Precision Air-Pressure Measuring Instrument
  • Earth thermometer (Soil thermometer) at 0.05m,0.10m&0.20m with support (the support made of steel with rust protection and blue hammer blow effect lacquer finish, with clamping device for mounting of the earth thermometer)
  • Earth thermometer (Soil thermometer) at 0.5m consisting of protective tubular rod with protective bell, guide tube handle, sealing ring and closing cap (rod and tube made of hard PVC)
  • Earth thermometer (Soil thermometer) at 1.0m consisting of protective tubular rod with protective bell, guide tube handle, sealing ring and closing cap (rod and tube made of hard PVC)
  • Aspiration psychrometer according to Assman
  • Spare Parts

BID SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION:

  • Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the ITB Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto
  • Both Technical and Financial Proposals shall be Physically or Courier delivered before application deadline August 6, 2015 on or before 10:30 AM Addis Ababa/Nairobi Time
  • Physical Address of Delivery: Attn: STAFF BT; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); ECA Compound, Congo Bld.; North Wing,; 6th floor; P.O. Box: 5580; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:  

EMAIL SUBJECT LINE WHILE REQUESTING FOR CLARIFICATION:

  • Bidders are strongly advised to send their request for clarification (if any) at info.procurementet@undp.org under email subject line ETH-ITB-2015-04