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Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. 

CRS launched its work in Ghana in 1958 and currently has robust programming in Agriculture and Livelihoods, Health, WASH, Migration, Youth Development and Peace Building, Gender and financial inclusion. CRS is implementing several projects across these core program areas to address issues of poverty and in Justice

Job Description

Request for Quotation (RFQ) - Hospital Equipment

CRS/Ghana Country Program

RFQ Reference Number :RFQ9175

Date: 19/06/2025

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Ghana is seeking quotations for the supply and delivery of hospital equipment to support healthcare operations in North East Region. Please refer to Annex 1 for CRS’s technical specifications, delivery and quantity requirements.

Quotation Due Date and Submission Details

All quotations must be received by email no later than the deadline for submission

Eligibility Criteria:

Bidders are required to submit the following documents as proof of eligibility

• Current Certificate to Commence Business / Current Certificate of Incorporation if applicable
• Form 3
• VAT Certificate (if applicable)

INCOTERMS to Quote for Delivery Address: Walewale

Catholic Relief Services’ Terms and Conditions

Catholic Relief Services’ Standard Terms and Conditions can be found at http://crs.org/vendorterms/vendor-terms.pdf, or obtained from CRS upon request, and are binding as applicable under local law.

Termination: 

Either party may terminate this contract for cause, in whole or part upon three (3) days’ notice, in writing to the other party.

Quote Validity Period

Quotation should remain valid and upon acceptance for a period of at least Sixty (60) days from the closing date 

Evaluation Criteria

The evaluation process will be conducted in two stages:

Stage 1 – Administrative Compliance

All submitted quotations will first be reviewed to ensure compliance with the administrative requirements outlined in the solicitation documents. Submissions that do not meet the administrative criteria will be disqualified at this stage and will not proceed to technical evaluation.

Stage 2 – Technical Evaluation

Quotations that pass Stage 1 will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

1. Adherence to Technical Specifications: Quotations must fully comply with the technical specifications provided for each item.
2. Best Value Assessment: Quotations will be assessed to determine the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer that also meets the delivery schedule requirements of Catholic Relief Services.

Scoring Criteria

Purchaser’s Right to Vary Requirements at Time of Award: 

CRS reserves the right at the time of making the award of contract to increase or decrease by up to 50 % the quantity of goods specified in the Request for Quotation without any change in unit price or other terms and conditions.

Eligibility:

Offerors must not be associated or have been associated in the past directly or indirectly with a firm or any of its affiliates which have been engaged by CRS to provide services for the preparation of the specifications and other documents to be used for the procurement of the goods under this request for quotation.

Offerors shall not be eligible to submit an offer and to be awarded a contract when, at the time of quotation submission

Offerors are already suspended by CRS or by United Nations, the World Bank or other public international entities

Offerors name are associated with terrorism and appear in the list that the European Union, the U.S. Government and the United Nations Security Council have published identifying individuals and organizations considered to be associated with terrorism. 

Furthermore, as a condition to doing business with CRS, the supplier, their subsidiaries, agents, intermediaries and principals must cooperate with the CRS or its agent in the conduct of evaluation, review, audit, inspection, assurance validation, counter-fraud activities, investigations or other action.

Failure to fully cooperate with investigations will be considered sufficient grounds to allow CRS to repudiate and terminate the contract, and to include the supplier on CRS list of suspended suppliers.