1. Background

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Palestine is looking to design and print several visibility items and publications in the coming year, and is therefore requesting quotes for several sets of specifications to be valid for the next 12 months.

2. Description and Quantity

3. Responsibilities of UN-Habitat

• The UN Finance Regulations and Rules preclude advance payments and payment by letter of credit. The UN Standards payment terms are 30 days upon receipt of vendor invoices and proof of provision of satisfactory goods and/or service to the United Nations.
• UN-Habitat reserves the right to accept the whole or part of your offer. Information provided by the bidder will constitute the basis for any eventual award of contract and/or Purchase Order (PO)
• PO/contract will be awarded to the bidder with the lowest offer that complies with the specifications

4. Responsibilities of the vendor

• Delivery address for subject Request for Quotation (RfQ) is UN-Habitat, 17 Nizar Qabbani Street, Al Masyoun, West Bank
• Acknowledgment that this RfQ and resultant purchase order are subject to the United Nations General Conditions of Contract for Goods
• Submission of an offer that details any duty or VAT charges. Taking into consideration that UN-Habitat is exempt from all duties and VAT
• Indicating the following information in the offer:
  • Unit Cost (in USD exclusive of VAT)
  • Total Cost to UN-Habitat for goods as per the RfQ
    • State validity period of offer (offers should be valid for at least 12 months)
    • Indicate quantity discount(s) where applicable
    • State country of Origin, Brand name(s) and Article number(s) of item(s) offered
    • State warranty period and warranty provisions (where applicable). A minimum of three years is required for all items. Please note that UN-Habitat requires a global guarantee on any manufactured products purchased. Any defects not detected at the time of delivery will result in the goods being replaced at supplier’s expense

5. Required qualifications of the vendor

• Bidders must have been in business for 3 years or more to conduct business with UN-Habitat (Copy of Certificate of Registration required)

6. Submission and evaluation

Interested vendors bidding must deliver financial offers in electronic format addressed for the attention of UN-Habitat at: unhabitat-palestine@un.org by the deadline of 9 March 2022 at 12:00 hours (Jerusalem local time). Bidders must submit offers for all listed equipment. Joint offers involving more than one vendor are accepted.

Late quotations and quotations sent to or copied to any other e-mail address will be automatically disqualified.

The Financial Evaluation consists of two phases:

Phase 1: Evaluation of the mandatory criteria of the financial evaluation criteria with Pass/Fail scores. Only vendors who score “Pass” to all mandatory criteria will move to the next phase and be evaluation on their financial offer

• Certified true copy of original certificate of registration
• A signed letter stating agreement to the terms of the UN General Conditions form, and confirming the validity of the financial offer for 90 days
• Complete information as outlined in Section 4

Phase 2: Evaluation of the financial offer in comparison to lowest qualifying offer received

• The Financial Evaluation: Financial score = Maximum number of points for the financial proposal / Price of proposal being evaluated x Lowest price

7. Inquiries

Please direct any inquiries concerning this RfQ to: unhabitat-palestine@un.org.

All inquiries should be received no later than 28 February 2022 by 12:00 hours (Jerusalem local time) and will be responded to collectively.