{"id":5549,"date":"2026-04-16T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:55:57","slug":"notice-of-best-evaluated-bidder-16th-april-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/?p=5549","title":{"rendered":"NOTICE OF BEST EVALUATED BIDDER &#8211; 16TH APRIL, 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 bidders as detailed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the intention of the Procuring Entity to place contracts with the named bidders 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><strong>ID: ECZ\/ONB\/003\/2026<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Procurement Description:<\/td><td>TENDER FOR THE SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2022 &#8211; STANDARD EDITION FOR THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Method of Procurement:<\/td><td>Open National Bidding<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1. Names of Best Evaluated Bidder and Address of Best Evaluated Bidder:<\/td><td><strong>RA Consulting Services (Z) Limited<\/strong> Plot No.3550, Rhodes Park Lagos Road, Lusaka Zambia<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Proposed Contract Period:<\/td><td>2 weeks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Proposed Contract Price:<\/td><td><strong>ZMW 216,342.86 <\/strong>VAT Inclusive<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Date Notification Issued<\/td><td>16<sup>th<\/sup> April 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Date for End of Notification Period:<\/td><td>22<sup>nd<\/sup> April, 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 bidders 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>16<sup>th<\/sup> April, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPPLY AND DELIVERY OF MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2022 &#8211; STANDARD EDITION FOR THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA<\/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-5549","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\/5549","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=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}