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INVITATION TO NATIONAL COMPETITIVE BID

FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF CISCO SWITCHES AND ACCESS POINTS CRef. No MOENCO IT/9/2022/

  1. MOENCO would like to invite interested and eligible bidders for the procurement of the following CISCO Productsthrough open tender. 
Lot No Description of Goods UoM Qty
A Catalyst 9300X 12x25G Fiber Ports, modular uplink Switch Pcs 4
B Cisco Catalyst 9400 Series 4 slot chassis, 9400-SUP-1, C9400-LC-24XS and C9400-LC-48P Pcs 2
C Cisco Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller for Cloud Pcs 1
Cisco Catalyst 9162 AP Pcs 10
  1. A complete set of Bidding Documents can be collected starting from July 19, 2022, during office hours as specified below:
  • Monday to Friday: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM and 1:00 P.M.- 4:30 PM
  • Saturday: 8:00 A.M-12:30 PM
  1. Address: MOENCO Procurement Division, located at Bole Road, Behind Medhanialem Church, 2nd floor, for further information: Telephone +251 8090 Ext 215 or +251 8090 Ext 212.
  2. For eligibility, bidders should bring copies of renewed Trade license, Certificate of registration, Taxpayer registration certificate, Value added tax certificate and tax clearance certificate.
  3. The bid document shall be submitted in a wax-sealed envelope by stating the address. Bids shall be submitted to the above-mentioned address.
  4. Bid proposal must be accompanied by a Bid Security amount indicated in tender document in the form of CPO or unconditional Bank guarantee valid for not less than 60 days from the date of bid opening.
  5. This bid will be closed on July 30, 2022, at 10:30 A.M in the morning and will be opened on the same day July 30, 2022 at 11:00 A.M in the presence of bidders or their representative at the address mentioned above.
  6. Bidders are advised to review the bid document carefully before submitting their bids, any failure to observe instructions and conditions in the bidding document will constitute grounds for rejection.
  7. MOENCO reserves the right to accept or reject the bid either partially or fully without giving reasons thereof. 

MOENCO

Telephone +251 8090 Ext 215/+251 8090 Ext 212

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

MoTRI streamlines efforts to capitalize on Franco-Valuta privileges

Metasebia Teshome
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Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration (MoTRI) stresses that despite Franco-Valuta privileges being applied with the aim of stabilizing the market, it has not performed as expected.
As Kumneger Ewnetu, Public Relation Director at MoTRI explains, Franco-Valuta has not reeled in the success as expected and has further not been able to stabilize the soaring inflation. To this end the Ministry in a bid benefit from the privilege has been working with the stakeholders to increase items.
A Franco-Valuta privilege is basically a permission to import goods on which foreign exchange is not payable following the strict payment procedures implemented by banks and regulated by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE). On April 2022, the government had decided to lift the minimum requirement for the import of basic goods to which anyone who lives abroad including the diaspora can import the stated commodities at any volume and value.
Food inflation stands high in Ethiopia despite policy measures to stabilize prices. Beside Franco-Valuta, as Kumneger indicated the Ministry is also considering to apply duty privileges.
Back in April 2022, the Ministry of Finance had informed the Ethiopian Customs Commissions that the privileges have been lifted for the import of the basic goods. The move at the time aimed to narrow the supply-demand deficit on basic food items as well as tackling the increasing inflation.
In order to alleviate the problems of inflation, Ethiopia has allowed individuals with USD 250 000 to use Franco-Valuta to import food consumables such as cooking oil, wheat, rice, milk and flour by verifying the source of the foreign currency with the NBE.
The Ministry said the decision was made after a request from the diaspora community to lift the restrictions and allow them to play their part in addressing the inflation.
The permit is said to stay in effect for six months starting from April. Officials had been indicating to review the decision based on the circumstances.
Experts in the financial sector claim the opening up of Franco-Valuta has reduced remittance whilst inflating the parallel market. The financial pundits have further explained that the flow of hard currency to banks as remittance has been affected because of the new type of Franco-Valuta condition.
Despite the government’s plans to stabilize the market and narrow the supply-demand deficit on basic food items, the inflation rate has almost doubled in the past few months. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine added to price risks, with a shortage in foreign currency needed to import fuel and fertilizer weighed heavy on the Ethiopian birr.
However, inflation rates in June dropped a little to 34% from 37.2% in May, according to data from the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia. Food-price growth slowed to 38.1% from 43.9%, while non-food inflation showed slight change at 28.4%.

Sidama coffee dominates Cup of Excellence

Staff Reporter
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Coffee with origins from Sidama dominates the Cup of Excellence (CoE) 2022 with this year’s competition only involving farmers. The CoE international online auction has also been scheduled for late August.
This year the participation of women coffee growers has also improved.
For the past two years, CoE Ethiopia has been able to register astonishing records in the global bean’s online auction.
According to Adugna Debele, Director General of Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority (ECTA), this year’s competition only accommodated coffee farmers that have less than 20 hectares of farming land.
“In the past, 150 shortlisted competitors had participated on the cupping, while except for the top 40, the beans for others had been returned to competitors. This time around, we have facilitated a market linkage for all to sale their products at better prices. This also make the current year CoE different compared with others,” Adugna, who is also a scientist in coffee development, told Capital.
For the 2022 CoE competitor’s samples have been submitted and top 150 samples have passed for the second stage and 40 of them are in the final top round. From the top 40 specialty coffees, the first 30 have achieved 87.17 points and above to trade their bean on international online auction on allianceforcoffeeexcellence.org which will be held on August 23, 2022.
Meanwhile the Director General said that remaining ten winners that are also called National Winners would have a chance to sell their product on an online auction that will be opened on August 15 for eleven consecutive days.
This year CoE had 5 Presidential Award winners for those who scored over 90 points, while at least 5 varieties and four regions were represented. ⁠
This year, coffee from Sidama also took the highest points similar to that of the past two CoEs with a tally of 90.69 points whilst in close second was also coffee with origins from Sidama at a score of 90.25.
The top coffee with origins from Oromia scored 90.19 points, followed by two Sidama coffees that attained 90.17 and 90.08 points respectively.
The top scored coffee is registered under the farmer Legese Botosa.
Adugna explained that Sidama coffee has become dominant because of the new technologies being used by the region which others should also emulate so as to improve the country’s coffee sector development and quality.
Coffees which come from Sidama mainly use the process called Honey and Anarobic.
Adugna said that this year competition is special owing to the significant number of women farmers who have won.
Kassahun Geleta, CoE Project Office Coordinator, said that this year’s competition saw 15 women farmers being included on the shortlisted finalists list.
“Four of them have also enabled to be part of the CoE winner and one included at the top 40 winners,” he added.
Regarding regions from the top 40 winners, Oromia dominated and took 16 positions, while Sidama and SNNP took 14 and 10 spots respectively.
However those who were included on the CoE top 30 mainly came from Sidama who took 13 spots, followed by Oromia which took 10 winners, whilst the remainder was from SNNP.
Kassahun told Capital that the third top wining coffee came from Jimma, while Oromia region coffee growers that came from West Arsi, Guji and East Welega were also involved in the winners list.
Similarly, coffee coming from Gedio zone controlled the position for SNNP.
The authority head said that the process had taken place as per the standard of CoE but this year the number of samples taken had reduced to 800.
For instance, the 2021 CoE, saw submissions of 1,848 competitor’s samples.
“Expanding the number of sample only consumes time, money and labour. 800 samples are ample for 40 finalists,” the ECTA head added.

Ethiopia, Kenya to pen agreement to combat illegal trade

Metasebia Teshome
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Ethiopia and Kenya to sign simplified trade regime agreement to manage illegal cross border trade.
Small scale trade along the Kenya- Ethiopia border is poised to thrive following bilateral negotiations between the two parties to agree on a Common List of products to be traded under the Simplified Trade Regime (STR).
The negotiations took place on 1st March 2022 at the Moyale border post and addressed the implementation of the STR between two countries. The STR which was launched in 2010 was done so in order to enable small-scale traders’ to become beneficiaries from COMESA’s trade liberalization programme by simplifying and formalizing the trade.
According to experts, effective implementation of the STR spurs growth, enhances production and productivity of the agricultural sectors through value addition and processing thereby creating jobs and increasing household incomes down the road.
Ethiopia has lost up to 78 billion dollars in five years through trade mis-invoicing practices, one of the tools in executing illicit financial flows.
Export under-invoice and import over-invoicing are the common activities in the illicit financial flows.
Corrupted officials at borders contributed to the expansion of illegal financial flows and trade, Mussie Mindaye, Trade Relations and Negotiations Directorate General at the Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration, pin-pointed.
Mussie explained that the absence of a comprehensive trade deal with neighbors and poor border management as contributing factors to the booming illegal trade in border areas.
Ethiopia’s vast borderland makes construction of infrastructures across the border expensive and cumbersome task, according to Mussie.
Illegal business activities conducted in different ways in Ethiopia are affecting the country’s economy to a great extent and the problem is reaching at serious level.
As stated in the discussion forum held recently regarding illegal trade and related issues, domestic and foreign illegal trade activities are becoming a thorn in the flesh for the contry economic activities.
The Director of Trade Relations and Agreements of the Ministry of Trade and Regional Cooperation of Kenya, Moses Mendaye pointed out that the illegal trade with income and expenditure trade is a concern.

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