NOTICE OF EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DIRECTORY OF APPROVED SERVICE PROVIDERS OF THE CONSULTATIVE INTERNATIONAL CASHEW COUNCIL (CICC)

The Consultative International Cashew Council (CICC) is an intergovernmental organization that promotes cashew value chains through policy coordination and cooperation among member states. The organization currently has eleven member states: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.

As part of the execution of its activities, the CICC informs potential contractors, suppliers and service providers (individuals or legal entities) who wish to take part in procurement procedures falling within the exemption and quotation request thresholds, that a list of service providers will be designed for this purpose. It invites service providers who are not affected by the provisions of the articles of the CICC Member countries on Public Procurement, to send their application for approval including the following documents:

  1. For businesses, companies, establishments, groups (legal entities in general):
  • A letter of request for approval addressed to the Executive Secretary of the CICC specifying the areas concerned;
  • A certified double-sided copy of the commercial register;
  • The Tax Declaration of Existence (DFE);
  • A certified copy of the statutes (for SARLs and SAs);
  • The average annual turnover for the last three years (2022, 2023 and 2024 financial statements.
  • Evidence of experience in the applicant’s preferred field.

Start-up companies and those that are less than 3 years old will provide:

  • Their opening balance sheet and financial statements for their years of existence;
  • Evidence of practice in the relevant field if available.
  1. For individual consultants:
  • The Tax Declaration of Existence (DFE);
  • Evidence of practice in the applicant’s preferred field;
  • The consultant’s curriculum vitae.
  1. Areas of service

The non-exhaustive areas concerned are:

  • Hotel and accommodation;
  • Audit and certification of accounts
  • Office supplies;
  • Material transport supplies;
  • Furniture;
  • Office equipment
  • Communication equipment
  • Informational Materials ;
  • Intellectual services (consulting firm);
  • Economic study;
  • Studies on approval procedures;
  • Training;
  • New technologies and web development provider;
  • Restoration
  • Newspaper advertisements;
  • Preparation of planning documents and other sectoral documents
  • Software Package Suppliers;
  • Simultaneous translation service
  • Travel agency
  • Car rental service
  • Cultural animation service
  1. Submission

The files must be submitted in two (02) copies, including one (01) original and one (01) copy, and submitted to the following address: Executive Secretariat of the CICC no later than 18 April 2025 at 5:00 p.m. (local time ). Tenders that do not arrive at the times and dates indicated above will be purely and simply rejected and returned unopened, at the expense of the tenderers concerned and no company/firm/group/consultant may submit its tenders in more than three areas of activity.

Applications must be submitted in sealed envelopes with the following statement: << EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE DIRECTORY OF CONTRACTORS, SUPPLIERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS OF THE CICC>> to the Secretariat of the institution located at Plateau, Avenue Franchet d’ Esperey , Immeuble OLLO, 1st Floor, Pavilion B, Telephone +225 2720272289, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Abidjan, April 18, 2025

André Mahoutin TANDJIEKPON

Executive Secretary

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