Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD)

Accessibility Modification Construction Works - Re-Advertised

Posted Date: 28 December 2025

Deadline: 28 January 2026

I. BACKGROUND

INVITATION TO BID

Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian Development Organization established in 2005 and reregistered at the Agency for Civil Society Organizations as Ethiopian Development Civil Society Organization with Certificate No 0321 under the Proclamation No 1113/2019. ECDD is working with other organizations to promote and facilitate the inclusion of persons with disabilities and disability issues in mainstream service delivery and development programs envisioning an Inclusive Ethiopia where persons with disabilities exercise the same rights and have access to the same services and opportunities enjoyed by other citizens.

The Ethiopian Centre for Disability and Development (ECDD), with the financial support of Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), is currently implementing a project entitled Enhancing employment inclusion through the development of vocational skills and inclusive training-employment nexus in Ethiopia: RISE project in collaboration with ECDD, in Addis Ababa, Hawassa, and Mekelle.

Based on the barriers identified by the accessibility auditors, the project will support the improvement of college's infrastructure's accessibility (Disability friendly) by undertaking accessibility modification construction works in selected areas of the college compound is to demonstrate the accommodations and modifications required for students with disabilities to participate fully and to show a model for the college community where they will practice for their future construction projects.

As part of the project, ECDD seeks to conduct accessibility modification construction work at Teferi Mekonen Polytechnic College. Thus, ECDD is looking for a qualified and interested bidder to provide accessibility modification construction works in the aforementioned public institution.

The following are the requirements:

1. Contractors Licensed in GC/BC Grade 6 and above are eligible to participate in the BID. The License should be valid for the Year 2017 Ethiopian Calendar, experienced in similar works (sanitary works, ramps and curb construction...)
2. Bid documents, including the technical documents with all necessary information, must be completed and submitted in hardcopy to the ECDD Office in Addis Ababa by 28 January 2026.
3. A Contractor who is undertaking a construction project for the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) with a performance/progress of less than 80% is not eligible for this bid.
4. A contractor whose financial proposal is 20 Backs