e Government Infrastructure Phase II

General Procurement Notice for e Government Infrastructure Phase II GENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICEKINGDOM OF LESOTHOe Government Infrastructure Phase IIGENERAL PROCUREMENT NOTICE1 The Kingdom of Lesotho has received a loan from the African Development Fund to finance the eGovernment Infrastructure Phase II Project 2 The principal objective of this project is to To drive digital finance and financial inclusion by improving access to reliable digital Servicesparticularly among citizens living in rural and unserved areas through a Increase data enabled coverage in rural and unserved areas b Expansion of digital infrastructure and services3 The project includes the following components Component 1 Extension of Rural Broadband ConnectivityThe activities under this component will include a support the construction of 48 mobile sites with the support of USF 25 and ADF 75 to achieve 99 6 population coverage improving 4G coverage in rural and unserved areas of Lesotho and b and support the completion of a 96km OPGW fibre network from Roma Maseru to Thaba Tseka thus improving the quality of service experienced by end users in Thaba Tseka when using mobile data services Component 2 Enhancement of the Lesotho Government Digital ServiceThe second component of the project aims to provide the required support for the promotion of a digital economy in Lesotho It will focus on building the required digital payments infrastructure improving access to legislation process and enacted laws and provide facilities to rural communities to access e government and digital financial services The component will have three sub components namely a establishment of common digital Centers at Lesotho Post Office locations spread out in the rural areas b strengthening of National Payment infrastructure and c implementation of an eParliament System for the Lesotho Parliament Component 3 Capacity Building and Project ManagementThis component will provide staff development skills in areas relating to ICT infrastructure andeServices The component will also support the operations of the project implementation units Theareas that will be considered for training and technical assistance include a USF models and IRUcontract management b e waste c ePayment agent management d eParliament models andtechnical skills e financing digital infrastructure and f support of organization of annual nationalforum on eProcurement and the use of digital payment to fight corruption 4 Procurement of goods including non consultancy services works and the acquisition of consultingservices financed by the Bank for the Project shall be carried out in accordance with the Bank sProcurement Framework dated October 2015 More information is available on the Bank s website atwww afdb org Bidding documents are expected to be available from October 2020 5 Interested bidders may obtain further information and should confirm their interest by contacting Ministry of Communications Science and Technology Department of Information and CommunicationTechnologyP O Box 36 Maseru LesothoMr Lira MoetiTel 266 22323063 266 22324873Email lira moeti gov ls

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