{"id":5519,"date":"2026-03-24T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:46:13","slug":"notice-of-best-evaluated-bidder-23rd-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/?p=5519","title":{"rendered":"NOTICE OF BEST EVALUATED BIDDER\u2013 23RD MARCH, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pursuant to section 71 of the Public Procurement Act, No. 8 of 2020, the Commission has concluded the evaluation and Procurement Committee approval of the above tender to the best evaluated bidder as detailed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the intention of the Procuring Entity to place a contract with the named bidder after Five (5) working days from the date of the display given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Procurement Reference Number:<\/td><td>ID: ECZ\/ONB\/002\/2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Procurement Description:<\/td><td>Tender For The Supply, Delivery And Installation Of Firewall Hardware And Licences For The Electoral Commission Of Zambia&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Method of Procurement:<\/td><td>Open National Bidding<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Names of Best Evaluated Bidder and Address of Best Evaluated Bidder:<\/td><td>Liquid Telecommunications Zambia Elunda 2, Addis Ababa Roundabout, Rhodes Park, Lusaka Zambia<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Proposed Contract Period:<\/td><td>Eight Weeks (8) weeks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Proposed Contract Price:<\/td><td>&nbsp;ZMW 2,765,083.65VAT inclusive<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Date Notification Issued<\/td><td>&nbsp;23<sup>rd<\/sup> March,2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Date for End of Notification Period:<\/td><td>&nbsp;27<sup>th<\/sup> March,2026<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kindly note this notice of best evaluated bidder does not constitute an award of contract to the bidder mentioned above. Bid acceptance and contract placement shall be in accordance with Part XIV of the Public Procurement Regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bidders have the right to appeal against the proposed award in accordance with Section 100 of the Public Procurement Act and Section 241 of the Regulations, provided the appeal is made within Five (5) days of the date of this notice pursuant to section 23 of the Public Procurement (Amendment) Act No.17 of 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ISSUED BY:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>23<sup>RD<\/sup> MARCH, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pursuant to section 71 of the Public Procurement Act, No. 8 of 2020, the Commission has concluded the evaluation and Procurement Committee approval of the above tender to the best evaluated bidder as detailed below. It is the intention of the Procuring Entity to place a contract with the named bidder after Five (5) working<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}