PROCUREMENT PLAN Project information: Bangladesh, Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance Project, P159497 Implementation agency: Bangladesh Computer Council ICT Division, Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology Date of the Procurement Plan: November 2016 Period covered by this Procurement Plan: Preamble In accordance with paragraph 5.9 of the “World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” (July 2016) (“Procurement Regulations”) the Bank’s Systematic Tracking and Exchanges in Procurement (STEP) system will be used to prepare, clear and update Procurement Plans and conduct all procurement transactions for the Project. This textual part along with the Procurement Plan tables in STEP constitute the Procurement Plan for the Project. The following conditions apply to all procurement activities in the Procurement Plan. The other elements of the Procurement Plan as required under paragraph 4.4 of the Procurement Regulations are set forth in STEP. The Bank’s Standard Procurement Documents: shall be used for all contracts subject to international competitive procurement and those contracts as specified in the Procurement Plan tables in STEP. National Procurement Arrangements: In accordance with paragraph 5.3 of the Procurement Regulations, when approaching the national market (as specified in the Procurement Plan tables in STEP), the country’s own procurement procedures may be used. When the Borrower uses its own national open competitive procurement arrangements as set forth in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (Public Procurement Act 2006 - PPA, 1st amendment to PPA (2009) and the Public Procurement Rules 2008, as amended in August 2009) , such arrangements shall be subject to paragraph 5.4 of the Procurement Regulations and the following conditions : a) e-GP system of the country for national competitive bidding (NCB) shall be followed using Standard/Model Procurement documents satisfactory to the Bank b) Post bidding negotiations shall not be allowed with the lowest evaluated or any other bidder; c) Bids should be submitted and opened in public in one location immediately after the deadline for submission; d) Lottery in award of contracts shall not be allowed; e) Bidders’ qualification/experience requirement shall be mandatory 1 f) Bids shall not be invited or rejected on the basis of percentage above or below the estimated cost. When other national procurement arrangements other than national open competitive procurement arrangements are applied by the Borrower, such arrangements shall be subject to paragraph 5.5 of the Procurement Regulations. Leased Assets as specified under paragraph 5.10 of the Procurement Regulations: “Not Applicable” Procurement of Second Hand Goods as specified under paragraph 5.11 of the Procurement Regulations – “Not Applicable” Domestic preference as specified under paragraph 5.51 of the Procurement Regulations (Goods and Works). Specify for each Goods: is applicable for those contracts identified in the Procurement Plan tables. Other Relevant Procurement Information. Procurement Threshold Bank-financed all contracts at or above the thresholds set out in the below table 1 are subject to the Bank’s procurement prior review. Table 1: Procurement Prior Review Thresholds (US$ millions) Substantial Moderate Type of procurement High risk Low risk risk risk Works (including turnkey, supply & installation of plant 5 10 15 20 and equipment, and PPP) Goods, information technology and non-consulting 1.5 2 4 6 services Consultants: firms 0.5 1 2 4 Consultants: individuals 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Irrespective of the contract value, the following procurement activities are subject to the Bank’s procurement prior review: a. procurement processes involving contract negotiations as, described in paragraphs 6.34-36 of Section VI of the Procurement Regulation for Borrowers; 2 b. competitive dialogue; c. sustainable procurement; and d. best and final offer. The determination of whether a contract meets the procurement prior review threshold is based on the estimated value of the contract, including all taxes and duties payable under the contract. Approaching the International Market As per the Procurement Regulations paragraph 6.14, Open international competitive procurement, for which international advertisement is required in accordance with these Procurement Regulations, is the preferred approach for complex, high-risk, and/or high-value contracts. The Bank has set specific thresholds for this purpose in the Guidance on Country Thresholds and excerpt for Bangladesh is quoted below: WORKS GOODS, IT AND NONCONSULTING SERVICES SHORTLIST OF NATIONAL CONSULTANTS OPEN OPEN RFQ OPEN OPEN NATIONAL RFQ CONSULTING ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL INTERNATIONA SERVICES AND L CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION ALL VALUES IN USD EQUIVALENT ≥ < ≤ ≥ < ≤ < ≤ 10,000,000 10,000,000 100,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 50,000 500,000 N/A 3 PROCUREMENT Bangladesh : BD: Leveraging ICT Growth, Employment and Governance Project PLAN General Information Country: Bangladesh Bank’s Approval Date of the Original Procurement Plan: 2017-07-20 2018-11-04 Revised Plan Date(s): (comma delineated, leave blank if none) Project ID: P122201 GPN Date: Project Name: BD: Leveraging ICT Growth, Employment and Governance Project Loan / Credit No: IDA / 50250, IDA / 59110 Executing Agency(ies): Bangladesh Computer Council WORKS Bid Evaluation Activity Reference No. / Draft Bidding Loan / Credit Market Procurement Prequalification Actual Amount Process Draft Pre-qualification Prequalification Specific Procurement Bidding Documents Proposal Submission / Report and Description Component Review Type Method Document / Signed Contract Contract Completion No. Approach Process (Y/N) (US$) Status Documents Evaluation Report Notice / Invitation as Issued Opening / Minutes Recommendation for Justification Award Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual GOODS Bid Evaluation Activity Reference No. / Draft Bidding Loan / Credit Market Procurement Prequalification Actual Amount Process Draft Pre-qualification Prequalification Specific Procurement Bidding Documents Proposal Submission / Report and Description Component Review Type Method Document / Signed Contract Contract Completion No. Approach Process (Y/N) (US$) Status Documents Evaluation Report Notice / Invitation as Issued Opening / Minutes Recommendation for Justification Award Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Contract Package no. GG4C / Supply, Installation, Commission & Premium Request for Open - IDA / 50250 Prior 2,224,849.47 Signed Support Service of RDBMS Quotations International & SOA SYSTEM for National Data Center Contract LICT-57-CD-B- GG4B / Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) of IDA / 50250 Prior Direct Selection Direct 890,533.88 Signed Infrastructure for National Data Center LICT-56-CD-B-GG4A / Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) of IBM IDA / 50250 Prior Direct Selection Direct 807,312.73 Signed Product for National Data Center BCC-LICT-G14 / Supply, Installation, Commissioning Open - Single Stage - One of Hardware and Software IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 1,037,026.28 Signed International Envelope for Establishment of Certificate Authority (CA) BCC-LICT-G15 / Supply, Installation, Implementation, Commissioning, and Open - Single Stage - One IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 1,495,820.00 Signed Maintenance of Hardware for International Envelope Expansion of National Data Center. LICT-BCC-G16 / Supply, Installation, Implementation, Commissioning, and Open - Single Stage - One IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 1,223,805.00 Signed Maintenance of Software for International Envelope Expansion of National Data Center Page 1 AF-G1 / Supply, Installation and Open - Single Stage - One Commissioning of Expansion IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 7,840,930.29 Canceled International Envelope of National Data Center (NDC) at BCC AF-G5 / Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Hardware Open - Single Stage - One & Software for IDA / 59110 Prior Request for Bids 1,859,263.33 Signed 2017-08-10 2017-08-10 2017-10-09 2017-12-28 2018-03-06 2019-03-16 International Envelope Establishment of Cyber Defense Training Center at BCC G8 / Supply, Installation and commissioning of Open - Single Stage - One software & various IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 1,799,000.00 Signed 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2018-10-20 International Envelope equipments for setting up CIRT Laboratory at BCC AF-G4 / Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Cyber Open - Single Stage - One IDA / 59110 Prior Request for Bids 1,458,000.00 Signed 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2018-10-20 Sensors into the Critical International Envelope Information Infrastructure for Cyber Security AF-G3 / Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) Single Stage - One IDA / 59110 Post Request for Bids Open - National 510,235.99 Signed 2018-01-10 2018-01-15 2018-02-26 2018-03-28 2018-05-09 2019-06-30 of Infrastructure for National Envelope Data Center G21 / Supply and Installation of Personal Single Stage - One Computer (Desk Top/ IDA / 50250 Post Request for Bids Open - National 59,100.59 Signed 2017-12-20 2017-12-25 2018-01-22 2018-02-21 2018-04-04 2018-07-03 Envelope Laptop), Printer, Copier and Others for PMU G22 / Supply, fitting and Single Stage - One IDA / 50250 Post Request for Bids Open - National 11,734.93 Signed 2017-12-12 2017-12-17 2018-01-14 2018-02-13 2018-03-27 2018-06-25 fixing of Furniture for PMU Envelope AF-G6 / Supply, Installation and Under Commissioning of data Open - Single Stage - One IDA / 59110 Post Request for Bids 0.00 Implementati 2018-01-21 2018-02-11 2018-03-31 2018-05-12 2018-06-23 2019-04-30 analytics software for use as International Envelope on NEA platform across government AF-G2 / Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) of Software and Secure IDA / 59110 Post Direct Selection Direct 600,060.00 Signed 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2019-05-31 Email Gateway (IBM Products) for National Data Center AF G1 / Supply, Installation and Open - Single Stage - One Commissioning of Expansion IDA / 59110 Prior Request for Bids 7,764,261.25 Signed 2018-04-03 2018-04-08 2018-04-22 2018-05-06 2018-05-27 2018-11-23 International Envelope of National Data Center (NDC) at BCC AF-G8 / Supply, Installation and Under Open - Single Stage - One Commissioning of Cloud IDA / 59110 Prior Request for Bids 0.00 Implementati 2018-07-22 2018-08-01 2018-09-12 2018-11-21 2019-01-02 2019-05-02 International Envelope Computing Platform in on National Data Center Page 2 AF-G9 / Supply, Installation and Under Open - Single Stage - One Commissioning of Hyper IDA / 59110 Post Request for Bids 0.00 Implementati 2018-08-02 2018-08-07 2018-09-18 2018-10-30 2018-12-11 2019-04-10 International Envelope Converged Infrastructure in on National Data Center AF-G10 / Supply, Under Installation and Single Stage - One IDA / 59110 Post Request for Bids Open - National 0.00 Implementati 2018-08-30 2018-09-01 2018-09-29 2018-11-03 2018-12-15 2019-04-14 Commissioning of Generator Envelope on for National Data Center AF-G11 / Supply, Installation and Under Commissioning of Anti- Open - Single Stage - One IDA / 59110 Post Request for Bids 0.00 Implementati 2018-08-16 2018-08-26 2018-10-07 2018-11-18 2018-12-30 2019-04-29 Distributed Denial of Service International Envelope on (Anti-DDoS) Solution in National Data Center NON CONSULTING SERVICES Bid Evaluation Activity Reference No. / Draft Bidding Loan / Credit Market Procurement Prequalification Actual Amount Process Draft Pre-qualification Prequalification Specific Procurement Bidding Documents Proposal Submission / Report and Description Component Review Type Method Document / Signed Contract Contract Completion No. Approach Process (Y/N) (US$) Status Documents Evaluation Report Notice / Invitation as Issued Opening / Minutes Recommendation for Justification Award Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual LICT-4-LPI-S-NS1 / Non- Open - Single Stage - One Consulting Services for Top- IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 7,068,530.00 Canceled International Envelope up IT Training Program Contract Package #NS2 / Open - Single Stage - One Foundation Skills Training IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 5,666,473.43 Signed International Envelope Program LPI-NS1 / Non-Consulting Open - Single Stage - One Services for Top-up IT IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 7,767,615.38 Signed International Envelope Training Program NS10 / Delivery of Middle Management Training Open - Single Stage - One IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 2,969,877.15 Signed 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2019-04-13 Services for IT and IT- International Envelope Enabled Services Industry AF-NS2 / Strategic CEO Outreach Services on Open - Single Stage - Two IDA / 50250 Prior Request for Bids 5,656,880.49 Signed 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2019-05-31 IT/ITES Business International Envelope Development for Bangladesh AF-NS4 / Mainstreaming of Open - Single Stage - Two the NDC across other IDA / 59110 Prior Request for Bids 0.00 Canceled 2017-08-10 2017-08-10 2017-08-23 2017-12-05 2018-02-01 2019-02-11 International Envelope agencies REBID AF-NS4 / Mainstreaming of the Open - Single Stage - Two IDA / 59110 Prior Request for Bids 1,119,825.44 Signed 2017-11-19 2017-11-24 2018-01-08 2018-03-19 2018-04-30 2019-04-30 National Data Center (NDC) International Envelope across other agencies AF-NS5 / Delivery of Job Fairs, Round table Discussions & Workshops, Under Promotional Activities for Single Stage - One IDA / 59110 Post Request for Bids Open - National 0.00 Implementati 2018-05-20 2018-05-25 2018-06-24 2018-07-24 2018-09-04 2019-05-02 Local Market Engagement Envelope on and Marketing Material Development to Support Industry Promotion CONSULTING FIRMS Page 3 Activity Reference No. / Combined Evaluation Loan / Credit Market Contract Type Actual Amount Expression of Interest Short List and Draft Request for Proposals Opening of Technical Evaluation of Description Component Review Type Method Process Status Terms of Reference Report and Draft Signed Contract Contract Completion No. Approach (US$) Notice Request for Proposals as Issued Proposals / Minutes Technical Proposal Negotiated Contract Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual Planned Actual LICT-36-SBCC-CF-S10 / Quality And Cost- Open - Firm - Enterprise IDA / 50250 Prior 2,316,034.51 Signed Based Selection International Architecture S-7 / Consultancy Services for IT/ ITES Industry Quality And Cost- Open - Promotion Services on IDA / 50250 Prior 1,264,594.79 Signed Based Selection International Marketing and Communications. S28 / REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR Building Quality And Cost- Open - IDA / 50250 Prior 925,427.33 Signed Data Center Recovery Site Based Selection International (DRS) at Jessore Software Technology Park (JSTP) S11 / Development of Information Security Policies, Quality And Cost- Open - standards, and National IDA / 50250 Prior 954,840.54 Signed Based Selection International Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) implementation AF-S2 / Strategy and Technical Assessment of Quality And Cost- Open - IDA / 59110 Prior 618,855.08 Signed 2017-08-10 2017-09-12 2017-11-16 2018-01-05 2018-03-06 2018-04-26 2018-06-07 2019-01-13 NEA for Integrated Digital Based Selection International Government AF-S4 / Enhancement of Quality And Cost- Open - Incident response capabilities IDA / 59110 Prior 0.00 Canceled 2017-09-19 2017-10-04 2017-11-17 2018-01-04 2018-02-15 2018-04-12 2018-05-17 2019-05-17 Based Selection International of BGD e-GOV CIRT AF-S3 / Development of cyber security strategy, assessment of critical Quality And Cost- Open - infrastructure, provision of IDA / 59110 Prior 1,119,274.20 Signed 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-10-20 2017-11-24 2018-02-07 2018-03-14 2019-03-14 Based Selection International self-assessment toolkit, and basic cyber security package for agencies AF-S45 / Audio Visual Production (AVP) Development for promoting Consultant ICT Sector of IDA / 59110 Post Qualification Open - National 0.00 Canceled 2017-12-28 2018-01-25 2018-03-17 2018-04-16 2018-05-21 2019-05-31 Bangladesh to the potential Selection foreign investors, foreign policy-makers and analyst firms INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANTS Page 4