Call for Expression of Interest
TO PROCURE AND DISTRIBUTE ETHANOL CLEAN COOK-STOVES UNDER PROJECT “SCALING UP BIOETHANOL AS A CLEAN ALTERNATE FUEL FOR COOKING IN DAR ES SALAM, TANZANIA”
Approximately 3 billion people lack access to clean cooking solutions and 85% of this global population lives in 20 high-impact countries which includes Tanzania. The baseline study for Tanzania shows that more than 80% of its population depends on traditional biomass as their primary energy source for cooking in households. The common cooking devices widely used in Tanzania are traditional three-stone firewood, metal charcoal stoves, improved charcoal stoves, and kerosene stoves which produce smoke and soot. While fuels for cooking are relatively diverse (firewood, charcoal, kerosene, electricity, cow dung, crop residues, wood processing residues, etc.), wood-based biomass fuels clearly stand out as the most utilized in the 20 high impact countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, some of these typical cooking fuels can produce significant amounts of smoke and prolonged exposure can be associated with respiratory infections, eye damage. and heart and lung diseases, which leads to approximately 4 million deaths annually in the world.
UNIDO is implementing a European Union (EU) Cook Fund project sub-component focused on ethanol cooking in Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the Government of Tanzania. The approved EU project under its biomass energy strategy for Tanzania aims to promote bio-ethanol as alternative clean cooking fuel by creating a market enabling environment for the introduction of 500,000 bio-ethanol fueled stoves in Dares Salaam and production and distribution of the bioethanol fuel. Under this initiative, UNIDO is soliciting an Expression of Interest (EON) from suitable qualified distribution companies or consortiums of companies, for the procurement and distribution of 175,000 subsidized ethanol clean cook stoves to households in Dar es Salaam.
If your company wishes to participate in this call of EOI, please visit the UNIDO e-procurement portal (https.//procurement.unido.org/} RfX7000005616 for further documents.
Submission deadline for EOI is 17:00 CEST, 24th June 2022 1
Please direct all questions on the call for expression of interest to UNIDO by
email: [email protected] and [email protected]. Ensure to indicate the EOI No. 7000005616 in the subject line of the communication.
