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PROCUREMENT PLAN Updated Procurement Plan, As of 10 September 2013 Basic Data PROCUREMENT PLAN Updated Procurement Plan, As of 10 September 2013 Basic Data Currency Unit Lao Kip (LAK) LAK 7800.00 = US$1.00 Project Name: Smallholder Development Project (Additional Finacing) Country: Lao PDR Executing Agency: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Loan Amount: $5.5 million Loan Number: L2809-LAO Date of first Procurement Plan: 3 October 2011 Date of second Procurement Plan: 13 November 2012 Date of this Procurement Plan: 10 September 2013 A. Process Thresholds, Review and 2014 procurement plan 1. Project Procurement Thresholds 1. Except as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) may otherwise agree, the following process thresholds shall apply to procurement of goods and works. Procurement of Goods and Works Method Threshold National Competitive Bidding (NCB) for Works $100,000 - $1,500,000 National Competitive Bidding for Goods $100,000 - $500,000 Shopping for Works Below $100,000 Shopping for Goods Below $100,000 Direct Contracting Below $10,000 2. ADB Prior or Post Review 2. Except as ADB may otherwise agree, the following prior or post review requirements apply to the various procurement and consultant recruitment methods used for the project. Procurement Method Prior or Post Comments Procurement of Goods and Works Shopping for Works Prior/Post Prior/Post = First contract under prior and Shopping for Goods Prior/Post subsequently Post review Direct Contracting Prior Recruitment of Consulting Firms Single-Source Selection (SSS) Prior Recruitment of Individual Consultants Individual Consultants Selection Prior 3. Goods and Works Contracts Estimated to Cost More Than $1 Million 3. The following table lists goods and works contracts for which procurement activity is either ongoing or expected to commence within 2013 General Description Contract Value Procurement Prequalification Advertisement Comments Method of Bidders (y/n) Date (quarter/year) NOT APPLICABLE 4. Consulting Services Contracts Estimated to Cost More Than $100,000 4. The following table lists consulting services contracts for which procurement activity is either ongoing or expected to commence within the year 2013 and 2014 NO General Description Contract Value Recruitment Advertisement Intern/National Comments Method Date (quarter/year) Assignment NOT APPLICABLE 5. Goods and Works Contracts Estimated to Cost Less than $1 Million and Consulting Services Contracts Less than $100,000 5. The following table groups smaller-value goods and consulting services contracts for which procurement activity is either ongoing or expected to commence within the year 2013 and 2014 Page 1 of 5 General Description Contract Value Number of Procurement / Advertis Date/ Comments (cumulative) Contracts Recruitment Issuance of Method Bids docs Goods Materials and equipments for FPMGs and ATEC 1 Automatic scale- and plastic vaccuum sealers for $11,000 1 Shopping Nov-13 FPMGs 2 Fertilizer/seed sprayer equipments for FPMGs $21,120 1 Shopping Oct-13 3 Materials for FPMGs' retrial shops $56,000 1 Shopping Nov-13 4 Materials for upgrading organic plantation in Savannkhet $10,000 1 Shopping Oct-13 (Phakkha village) 5 Materials for Demonstration of organic cultivation and $25,000 1 Shopping Oct-13 kitchen at Lao-China Agriculture Cooperation Center, Champasak province 6 Materials (bat dung and limes) $900 1 Direct contracting Sep-13 preparing document 7 Equipements (Small pump, tank and others) $6,760 1 Direct contracting Sep-13 preparing document 8 Materials and equipments for orange nursery in $30,000 1 Shopping Sep-13 preparing document Vientiane province Processing Equipments 9 Rice sorter Machine for miller groups $150,000 1 NCB Nov-13 10 Rice seed dryer (12 tons & 4 tons) for rice miller $29,375 1 Shopping Aug-13 Evaluate of EOI Market promotion equipment 11 Market information posters for markets $43,924 5 Shopping Sep-13 Others 12 Supplies and installation of Electrical Power $20,000 1 Shopping Nov-13 Transformer for rice sorter machine CONSULTING SERVICES 13 National Environmental Safeguarding Specialist (ESS) $9,000 1 ICS Sep-13 advertisement issued (3 person-months) 14 International PCR Economist (1 person-month) $20,000 1 ICS Jun-14 To be procured in June 2014 B. Indicative List of Packages Required Under the Project 6. The following table provides an indicative list of all procurement (goods, works and consulting services) over the life of the project. Contracts financed by the Borrower and others should also be indicated, with an appropriate notation in the comments section. No General Description Estimated Estimated Procurement Domestic Comments Value Number of Method Preference (cumulative) Contracts Applicable GOODS 1 Motorbikes for ONPD office, DAFOs, and ATEC, 44 $68,640 1 Shopping N.A Completed units 2 Pick-up 4x4W (2) ONPD and 2x2W (1) for ATEC $79,500 1 Shopping N.A Completed vehicles 3 Computer (desktops & laptops) DAFOs, PPOs, ONPD $76,650 1 Shopping N.A Completed and ATEC and Photocopier for ONPD and 4 PPOs 4 Office equipment for DAFOs, PPOs, ONPD and ATEC $49,995 1 Shopping N.A Completed 5 Office equipment and furniture for Lao-China $8,376 1 Shopping N.A Completed Agricultural Cooperation Center, Champasak province Production equipment 6 Rice transplanting equipment $49,040 1 Shopping N.A Completed 7 Fertilizer/seed sprayer equipments for FPMGs $21,120 1 Shopping N.A Post- harvest equipment 8 High capacity threshers $47,952 1 Shopping N.A Completed 9 Medium capacity rice seed graders $36,000 1 Shopping N.A Completed 10 Flat bed grain drier (2.5 tons) $43,316 1 Shopping N.A Completed 11 Storeroom facility for seed material at ATEC $55,244 1 Shopping N.A Completed (khammouane and VTE) 12 Bag sewing machines and weighting scale (100kg) $1,920 1 Direct contracting N.A Completed 13 Mowing equipment, small mowing machine and $11,688 1 Direct contracting N.A Completed fertilizer/seed sprayer equipments for ATEC and farmer groups 14 Metal wire and plastic sheet for farmer group in $840 1 Direct contracting N.A Completed Champasak 15 Automatic scale and plastic vaccuum sealers for $11,000 1 Shopping Nov-13 FPMGs 16 Materials for FPMGs' retrial shops $48,000 1 Shopping Nov-13 17 Materials for upgrading organic plantation in Savannkhet $10,000 1 Shopping Oct-13 (Phakkha village) 18 Materials for Demonstration of organic cultivation and $25,000 1 Shopping Oct-13 kitchen at Lao-China Agriculture Cooperation Center, Champasak province Page 2 of 5 Seeds for Farmers group initiatives 19 Capital for seed fund establishment-R3 (for 8 new $122,510 12 Direct contracting N.A Completed (Contract signed) districts/dry/wet-season) ADB approved change in procurement method on 10 September 2012 20 Capital for seed fund establishment-R2 (for 8 new $12,075 1 Direct contracting N.A Completed (ADB approved districts/dry/wet-season) and 4 original district-CPS change in procurement method on 10 September 2012) 21 Capital for seed fund establishment-R2 (for 8 new $1,723 1 Direct contracting N.A Completed districts/dry/wet-season) and 4 original district-CPS 22 Capital for seed fund establishment R3 for farmer $8,997 4 Direct contracting N.A completed group in Champasak ( 4 original districts-wet season) 23 Rice bags $7,308 1 Direct contracting N.A completed 24 Seed capital for farmer group fertilizer fund-Urea (for 8 $29,066 4 Shopping N.A completed new district/dry season) 26 Corn seed for farmer group in Champasak and VTE $11,761 1 Direct contracting N.A completed 27 Vegetable seed for farmer group in Champasak and $7,863 1 Direct contracting N.A completed VTE 28 Job's tear and chili for farmer group in VTE $344 1 Direct contracting N.A completed Materials and equipments to prepare compost for farmer group fertilizer fund(for 8 new districts/wet season) 29 Rice husk burner (22 units) $3,808 1 Direct contracting N.A completed 30 Soil mixer and soil grinder (11 units each) $34,862 1 Shopping N.A completed 31 Materials (bat dung and limes) $900 1 Direct contracting N.A preparing RFQ 32 Equipements (Small pump, tank and others) $6,760 1 Direct contracting N.A preparing RFQ 33 Bags for compost $1,460 1 Direct contracting N.A completed Veterinary equipment 34 Demonstrations - veterinary equipment and Seed $37,899 1 Shopping N.A Completed capital for farmer group vaccination revolving fund (for dry season) 35 Refridgerators for storing Vaccines for farmer group $13,731 1 Shopping N.A Completed Processing equipment 36 processing equipment for farmer in Vientiane province $13,189 1 Direct contracting N.A Completed 37 processing equipment for farmer in Khammouane $2,588 1 Direct contracting N.A Completed province 38 processing equipment for farmer in Champasak $8,679 1 Direct contracting N.A completed province 39 Small rice milling machine for farmer groups and $37,500 1 Shopping N.A Completed moister tester for rice miller groups 40 Rice seed dryer (12 tons & 4 tons) for rice miller $29,375 1 Shopping N.A Evaluate of EOIs 41 Materials and equipments for orange nursery in $30,000 1 Shopping N.A preparing document Vientiane province 42 Rice sorter Machine for miller groups $150,000 1 NCB N.A To be procured in Q4 2013 Materials and equipment for organic vegetable group 43 Equipment (Pump, Tank, Springer system and Other) $92,708 1 Shopping N.A Completed 44 Material (plastic roof and other) $20,513 1 Shopping N.A Completed Market promotion equipment 45 Booth support at Agric Show $18,885 1 Shopping N.A Completed 46 Market information posters for markets $4,181 1 Shopping N.A Completed 47 Market information posters for markets $43,819 5 Shopping N.A To be procured in Q4 2013 Laboratory equipment
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