If you are qualified for the Tenders & Bids for Request for Bids – Supply and Delivery of Small Plants and Tools, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi in Malawi is looking for you. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications before the closing date on July 28, 2026. See the guidelines below to submit your application successfully. Please ensure to mention you found this opportunity on NyasaJobs.com website when submitting your CV and application to the employer or when making online applications for organizations.

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CORPORATION OF MALAWI (ESCOM) LIMITED

REQUEST FOR BIDS (FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS) FOR GOODS (PRIMARY PROCUREMENT, ONE-ENVELOPE BIDDING PROCESS)

Procuring Agency: Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi
Country: Malawi
Name of Project: Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation In Malawi Project
Framework Agreement Title: Supply and Delivery of Small Plants and Tools
RFB Reference No.: MW-ESCOM-534525-GO-RFB
No.: IDA E4010
Date of issue: 24th June 2026

1. This Invitation for Bids follows the General Procurement Notice for this Project that appeared UNB Online, Notice number OP00336801 dated 31st January 2025

1. The Government of Malawi has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation in Malawi (ASCENT) and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under Call-off Contracts that may be awarded under the Framework Agreement (FA)/Framework Agreements (FAs) for the supply and delivery of Small Plants and tools concluded through this RFB Primary Procurement process. For this contract, the Borrower shall process the payments using the Direct Payment disbursement method, as defined in the World Bank’s Disbursement Guidelines for Investment Project Financing, except for those payments, which the contract provides to be made through letter of credit.

2. The Procuring Agency is undertaking the Primary Procurement with a view to concluding a Framework Agreement /Framework Agreements. The Procuring Agency is the sole Purchaser under the Framework Agreement/Framework Agreements. The Procuring Agency now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for supply and delivery of small plants and tools.

Lot No.	Description of goods	Quantity	Physical Unit	Final (Project Site) Destination as specified in BDS
1	Allen key set	176	Set	Blantyre
	Android gadgets for data collection	340	Each	Blantyre
	Banding Tool	176	Each	Blantyre
	Cable knife	352	Each	Blantyre
	Climbers	352	Each	Blantyre
	Clip-On Ammeter (Avo meter with clamp)	88	Each	Blantyre
	Combinational screw drivers	176	Each	Blantyre
	Cones	176	Each	Blantyre
	Double Ladders Alluminium 12m	352	Each	Blantyre
	Double Ladders Alluminium 9m	352	Each	Blantyre
	Drone	4	Each	Blantyre
	Earth Resistance Tester	10	Each	Blantyre
	Escom Danger warning sign – Triangle plates	176	Each	Blantyre
	Genset	4	Each	Blantyre
	GPS gadgets	8	Each	Blantyre
	Hack saw frame	156	Each	Blantyre
	wire cutter	312	Each	Blantyre
	Hand Drilling Machine	88	Each	Blantyre
	manual augers 16mm	352	Each	Blantyre
	manual augers 18mm	176	Each	Blantyre
	Linesman safety belts	704	Each	Blantyre
	Measuring wheel	190	Each	Blantyre
	Nylon rope (100m)	176	Each	Blantyre
	Shovels and pick	312	Each	Blantyre
	rubber gloves (1000v)	312	Each	Blantyre
	rubber gloves (35kV)	312	Each	Blantyre
	Operational stick	156	Each	Blantyre
	First Aid Kits	102	Each	Blantyre
	Earth Tube Set	40	Each	Blantyre
	come along 100mm	132	Each	Blantyre
	sling	234	Each	Blantyre
	Winch set	44	Each	Blantyre
	LV ABC Pulley	44	Each	Blantyre
	Stringing block	44	Each	Blantyre
	Nylon sling	156	Each	Blantyre
	phase separator	156	Each	Blantyre
	dynamometer	44	Each	Blantyre
	ABC hydraulic crimping tool + dye	44	Each	Blantyre
	snake gaiters	44	Each	Blantyre
	ABC pulling socks	176	Each	Blantyre
	wire strippers	88	Each	Blantyre
	cable ties	3000	Each	Blantyre
	Pull lift 1.5 tonne	88	Each	Blantyre
	Power Quality Analyser	5	Each	Blantyre

3. The Framework Agreement/Framework Agreements to be concluded will be “Single-User.” “The Single-User entitled to purchase under the Framework Agreement is Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Ltd.

4. The Framework Agreement/Framework Agreements to be concluded will be “Single-Supplier.”

5. The selection of an FA Supplier to be awarded a Call-off Contract will be done through a Secondary Procurement process as defined in Framework Agreement. However, the conclusion of a Framework Agreement shall not impose any obligation on the Procuring Agency, including participating Purchasers, to purchase Goods under a Call-off Contract. The conclusion Framework Agreement does not guarantee that an FA Supplier will be awarded a Call-off Contract.

6. Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids
(RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” Seventh Edition, September, 2025. (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

7. Bidders may submit Bids for one or more of the following items:

LOT	Description of Goods
1	Small Plants and Tools

8. The Framework Agreement/Framework Agreements shall be concluded for a Term of 2 years from the commencement date stated in the Framework Agreement. The initial term maybe extended by a maximum of two years.

9. The Primary Procurement shall establish a Closed Framework Agreements).

10. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Ltd, The Chairperson of Internal Procurement and Disposal of Assets Committee and inspect the Bidding Document during office hours 0900 to 1200 hours and 1330 to 1630 hours at the address given below.

11. The Bidding Document in English may be purchased by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of MWK30,000.00 or its equivalent in a freely convertible currency. The method of payment will be a Direct Deposit to the following accounts.

FOREIGN CURRENCY PAYMENTS
Type of Information	DETAILS
BENEFICIARY ACCOUNT NAME	ESCOM Border Towns
BENEFICIARY ADDRESS	P.O. BOX 2047, BLANTYRE
BENEFICIARY BANK	Standard Bank
SWIFT CODE	SBICMWMXXXX
BANK ACCOUNT	9100000906260
CURRENCY	USD
LOCAL CURRENCY PAYMENTS
Type of Information	DETAILS
BENEFICIARY ACCOUNT NAME	ESCOM Main
BENEFICIARY ADDRESS	P.O. BOX 2047, BLANTYRE
BENEFICIARY BANK	National Bank of Malawi
SWIFT CODE	NBMAMWMW002
BANK ACCOUNT	694592
CURRENCY	MWK

The document will be sent by Courier or email.

Please note that the Bidding Documents are being provided in hard copies. However, only for the convenience of the bidders, in filling the various Forms and the Bills of Quantities, a soft copy in CD is also being given along with the hard copy. The bidders should note that in case of any difference in the hard and the soft copy, the one in hard copy only will prevail

12. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 28th July, 2026. Electronic Bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected.

13. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s/bidders’ beneficial ownership, as part of the publication of the conclusion of framework agreement notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form included in the bidding document.

14. The address(es) referred to above is (are):

For Bidding Document.

The Chairperson of the Internal Procurement and Disposal of Assets Committee
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Ltd
ESCOM House, Annex Building, 9 Haile Selassie Road.
Projects Procurement
P.O. Box 2047
Blantyre, Malawi
+265 1 822 000
e-mail: ascentproc@escom.mw

The address(es) referred to above is (are):

For Submission of Bids:
The Chairperson of the Internal Procurement and Disposal of Assets Committee
Electricity Supply
Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Ltd
ESCOM House, Annex Building, 9 Haile Selassie Road.
P.O. Box 2047
Blantyre, Malawi
+265 1 822 000
e-mail: ascentproc@escom.mw
www.escom.mw

For Opening of Bids
ESCOM, Mpemba Training Centre Blantyre, Malawi