Avis d’appel d’offre pour le projet de renforcement de l’administration fiscale en Érythrée – ESTAP

GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE

ERITREA

Eritrea Strengthening Tax Administration Project (ESTAP)

 

1. The Ministry of Finance of the State of Eritrea has received grant financing from the African Development Fund for strengthening domestic resource mobilization through a project “Eritrea Strengthening Tax Administration Project –ESTAP” ;
2. The principal objective of the Project is to provide a strategic platform for domestic resource mobilization and support the government plan to accelerate and strengthen tax administration by modernizing tax collection and compliance procedures through automation of Inland Revenue Department (IRD) business process and enhancing critical skills and competencies of revenue administration staff ;
3. The project includes the following two components : Component 1 : Enhancing Inland Tax Administration systems and procedures. This component include: i) introducing a new tax administration software that allows electronic taxation services to be delivered in an interrelated manner; ii) Training IRD staff on new business processes, and iii) developing new tax procedures. The scope of this component includes providing an integrated tax software application based on a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) taxation framework, training staff and providing IT equipment ;
4. Component 2 : Human resource capacity building to enhance tax compliance and increase tax collection. The objective of this component is to enhance staff skills and professionalism in critical tax administration areas in order to improve compliance and revenue collection. Activities under this component include: i) Train staff in tax audits and investigation to enforce compliance ii) Technical assistance to train staff on new tax administration tools ;
5. Procurement of goods and acquisition of the services of Consultants will be in accordance with the Bank’s Procurement Policy for Bank Group Funded Operations, dated October 2015. Bidding and/ or Request for Proposal (RFP) documents are expected to be available in November 2019 ;
6. Interested service providers and bidders may obtain further information, and should confirm their interest, by contacting :

Ministry of Finance

P.O. Box 198, Asmara, Eritrea

Attn. :  Mr. Efrem Tesfai (Project Coordinator)

Tel. :  +291-120404

Fax : +291-126899

Email : eftesfai@gmail.com