Contract Award Advertising Requirements

In accordance with paragraph 2.28 of the Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers and paragraph 2.60 of the Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits, World Bank borrowers must advertise the award of contract within two weeks of receiving the Bank’s no objection.

For all ICB and limited international bidding (LIB) awarded contracts (procurement of goods, works or non-consulting services), the borrower must publish in UN Development Business (UNDB) online and dgMarket the results identifying the bid and lot numbers, (a) the name, address, bid price at opening and final bid price of awarded bidder; (b) name, bid prices as read out at bid opening and evaluated bid price of all evaluated bidders; and (c) name, bid price at bid opening, and reason for rejection for all bidders whose bids were rejected, as well as the duration and summary scope of the contract awarded.

For consulting services (QCBS, QBS, FBS, and LCS), the borrower must publish in UNDB online and dgMarket (a) the names of all consultants who submitted proposals; (b) the technical points assigned to each consultant; (c) the evaluated prices of each consultant; (d) the final point ranking of the consultants; (e) the name of the winning consultant and the price, duration, and summary scope of the contract. All consultants competing for the assignment should be informed of the result of the technical evaluation (number of points that each firm received) before the opening of the financial proposals, and at the end of the selection process the results should be published. Borrowers should debrief losing consultants on the reasons why they were not awarded the contract.

Publication of results of direct contracting (DC), selection based on consultants’ qualifications (CQS), and single source selection (SSS) is done quarterly and in a simplified format. Publication of results for national competitive bidding (NCB) is not required by the Bank and should follow the requirements of the law of the country of the borrower.