Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
(Office of the Registrar and Secretary to Council)
Invitation for Expression of Interest and Pre-Qualification for Consultancy in Capacity Building
Introduction
The Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto in its efforts to ensure the realization of health for all, policy and the need to integrate herbal/traditional medicine into the primary health care delivery, intends to carry out a capacity building to upgrade the physical and human facilities of the Department of Pharmacagnosy and Ethnopharmacy of the faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University, using its 2011 Capital Appropriations.
Scope of the Service
1. The services required is to train both academic and technical staff in the department of Pharmacognosy and Bthropharmacy on conventional and modern methods of teaching and contacting researches in traditional medicine. This is to give an opportunity for research and teaching of the art and science of traditional medicine and clinical herbal practices with the view of integrating this in medical care. The consultants will also be required, to mount workshops to train traditional birth attendants/herbalists, bone settlers and related practitioners in Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States.
2. The Consultants will also be required to specify/design the creation and development of Herbarium, Medicinal Plant Garden, and Animal house. Locating of medicinal plants (using GIS mapping) in Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States as part of the project
3. The consultants will be required to specify and facilitate the acquisition and consumables that will be required by this project.
Pre-Qualification Requirements
A pre-qualification exercise of Interested companies will be carried out and only companies successfully pre-qualified will be invited to submit proposal for the project. As part of the pre-qualification process, interested companies are required to submit the following information/documents for assessment:
a. Company profile, including curriculum vitae of Key staff of the company;
ii. Certificate of incorporation from Corporate Affairs Commission;
iii. Verified copy of tax Clearance for the last three (3) years;
iv. Evidence of successful execution of similar projects or being executed within the last three years;
v. audited financial account for the last three years; and
vi. The firm must have bias in Pharmaceutical Sciences or evidence of linkage with a Pharmaceutical Institution.
Submission of Pre-Qualification Documents
Completed pre-qualification documents must be submitted to:
The Secretary
Registry Department
Usmanu Danfodiyo University
P.M.B. 2346
Sokoto
Receipt of pre-qualification documents will be closed on 28th July 2011.
Opening of Pre-Qualification Documents
Completed and submitted documents will be opened, in the presence of companies’ representatives, at the Senate Chambers, Ahmadu Bello House, Main Campus of the University, by 12:15pm on the date of the close of receipt of pre-qualification documents.
Signed
Umaru U. Bunza
Registrar and Secretary to Council
