Background information

Kilimo Trust (KT) is a not-for-profit organization working on agriculture and agribusiness for development and creation of employment opportunities across East Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Burundi).

Kilimo Trust Rwanda is leading the implementation of a five-year project (June 2020 – December 2024) titled Rural Youth Employment Support (R-YES) project to build technical and entrepreneurial capacities of rural youth for employment in agribusiness as wage earners or commercial providers of services/products.

With funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development and BMZ, R-YES project is implemented by Kilimo Trust Rwanda in partnership with Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (RYAF) and Rwanda Polytechnic – with Integrated Polytechnic Regional Colleges (IPRCs), TVETs and agribusiness industries as centers of technical training for youth employment in agribusiness.

Through R-YES project, Kilimo Trust Rwanda invites bids from eligible bidders for supply of equipment and consumables to equip facilities of R-YES training partners to enable technical training of youth.

Equipment and materials to be supplied are broken down per subject in eleven (11) lots. The bidder may bid for any lot or all lots. Each lot must be priced separately. Bid for a particular lot must contain all items of the lot. Bids will be evaluated, and contracts will be awarded for every lot separately.

Interested and eligible bidders shall submit the following:

1. Expression of interest addressed to the Human Resource Manager of Kilimo Trust.

2. Bid for any lot or all lots with each lot priced separately.

3. Company registration certificate.

4. Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) Tax Clearance Certificate.

5. Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) Clearance Certificate.

6. At least 2 recommendations /certificates for supply of similar goods in the past five years.

Submission and Deadline 

All required documents must be written in English and submitted electronically in one folder to recruitment@kilimotrust.org not later than Friday 15^th  March 2022 at 5:00PM Rwanda Time. Late bids will be rejected.