ERP PROPOSAL

BIOVISION AFRICA TRUST (BvAT)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)

SUPPLY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE

Release Date: Friday, 26^th February 2021

Last Date for receipt of Proposals: Friday 26^th March 2021

2.1 Purpose of the document

The purpose of this RFP is to request the services of qualified ERP System Tenderers to supply an ERP solution for Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) offering the functionality and features that would cover its core components of Donor grants and Projects management, Financial management, Human Resource management and Procurement management.

The purpose of this document is therefore to set out terms of reference for an ERP solution from Tenderers with the experience, expertise, and qualifications to provide a fully integrated, proven state-of-the-art solution (Future System). BvAT is looking to partner with the selected vendor to provide the associated professional services to complete implementation.

2.2 About Biovision Africa Trust

Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) is a not-for-profit organization established in Kenya in 2009 and based in the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi. It is an agent of change and aspires to contribute to alleviation of poverty and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Kenya and other African countries with agroecology and ecological organic farming. BvAT provides people with a wealth of information and knowledge to achieve good crop yields without relying on expensive chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

BvAT has built competence in the field of linking research and practice to process and disseminate information on appropriate technologies. While helping smallholder farmers, BvAT addresses four target groups with a holistic perspective. It works firstly directly with the smallholder farmers and through multipliers of information for building farmer’s knowledge and capacity. BvAT creates secondly market demand for farmer’s product while working with processors, traders and consumers. Thirdly, it supports the legitimized institutions of the farmers to build their capacity to advocate for their rights and to establish the needed market functions. Finally, and fourthly, it facilitates building better framework conditions with improved government policies **

3 REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL 

The Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) intends to deploy an efficient, manageable and cost-effective Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to address the current and future information management system requirements of the Trust’s Donor grants and Projects management, Financial management, Human Resource management and Procurement management.

BvAT hence invites eligible and qualified firms who are able to demonstrate capability to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution by responding to this Request for Proposal (RFP).