EXPRESSION OF INTEREST [EOI] FOR UPDATING WFP SUPPLIER DATABASE FOR SUPPLIERS OF FOOD AND NON-FOOD ITEMS

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WFP is pleased to invite expressions of interest for the provision of goods and services of various categories.

Purpose:   The purpose of this request for EOI is to identify suppliers and service providers with verified technical and financial capacity that will be supplying and providing various goods and services to World Food Programme as listed below. Eligible suppliers and service providers may be invited to participate in the bidding process for a proposed tender based on their specific categories.

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Please note that UN WFP requires supporting documentation to register a vendor successfully.
Minimum requirements will be:

  1. Company’s confirmation in writing of interest to participate in the prequalification process In company official letter head.
  2. Valid business license.
  3. Legal registration certificate from Inland Revenue Administration, GST registration certificate.
  4. A minimum 3 years of experience in the sector.
  5. Company profile.
  6. Willing and ready to work with WFP according to its terms and conditions.

Existing registered vendors are also required to re-submit their interest, indicating any new goods or services now available.

This expression of interest will close on Friday 07 November, 2025

Please reply to the WFP Procurement Unit with the categories of Goods and, or Services applicable. Companies that are unable to satisfy the minimum requirements as above will not be considered for registration, for logistics related services kindly use the logistics email below.

Contact details: freetown.procurement@wfp.org

This request for EoI is not an invitation to tender nor does it imply automatic selection to WFP’s shortlist. No rates/prices are required at this stage, and this invitation does not bind WFP to issue any tenders or contracts to the companies expressing their interest

Table of Goods and services

GOODS SERVICES

 

 
Stationery supplies Printing (warehouse ledger Books, waybills, stack cards)

Printing services (Posters banner signpost) and designing of items etc.

 
IT items: Computers and accessories, printers and printing consumables, Cisco access Point Cat 7 patch cords OWL conference cameras, Mobile Phones, Mobile portable projector screen, projector Mobile PA system, PDAs etc. Engineering Consultancy firms, design, soil test, etc  
Light Vehicle Spare Parts Consultancy Services, evaluation, value chain, etc  
Heavy Duty Vehicles (Trucks) Spare Parts Consultants for workshops, trainings…  
Furniture supplies. Car Rental Services  
Plastic products (Plates, Jogs, Cups, Basin, Jerri Cans, Tarpaulins, Prepack Plastics Outsourcing companies (Security, Janitorial & Cleaning, ICT maintenance services, etc)  
Electrical supplies -extensions AVR UPS Consulting firms for maintenance/servicing of copiers  
Visibility items (T-shirt, Caps with Logo printing), Consulting firms for network, tower, etc installations  
Cooking Utensils Maintenance/Servicing of Fire extinguishers  
Guesthouse items (bed, mattresses, etc) Maintenance/Servicing of Air Conditions  
Warehouse Equipment: weighing scale, stitching machine, stitching needles stitching threads, Stitching Machine oil, Empty Polypropylene bags with WFP Logos, Plastic Bags, Padlocks, empty Jerry can, warehouse thermometers, food packaging material Civil Constructions Contractors (Building, Road, Bridge, etc)  
Generator, pump, suppliers Insurance Services  
 Fuel Storage tank supplies Garages specialised in Toyota vehicles  
Fuel supply Courier services  
Toiletries News Advertising  
Electronics materials Generator maintenance/servicing  
Water and Fuel Pumps Re-bagging food  
Fire Extinguishers Professional Education Services  
Generators and generator parts & consumables Catering Services  
Building construction materials Event Planning and Organizing Services  
Agricultural equipment and tools (Power Tillers, Rice milling Machine, Rice Threshers, moisture meter Videography and Photography  
Pharmaceutical Drugs Installation and maintenance of solar panels  
Plastic Hermetic Grain Silos Car Repair Services (Body Works and mechanical)

 

 
Solar driers Aluminium Works  
Solar Pannels Animation  
Motorbikes and spare parts Provision of outsourced staffing services for auxiliary staff, drivers, mechanics, logistics  
Solar water pumps and irrigation systems    
Sanitary and cleaning items    
Office Equipment (copiers, fax machines, etc)    
Agricultural Input (vegetable seed, Nutritious grass seeds, Fruit and forest tree seedlings, fertilizer) Provision of Auction Services in Sierra Leone Country Office  
Local Complementary Food processing equipment & installation Maintenance of food processing equipment  
Food graded packaging materials for finish product and Secondary Packaging – Cartons Jingles production  
Food packaging machine Potential organisation or institutions able to provide:
  • Provide qualified enumerator for conducting survey, assesment
  • Providing conducive training environment for the enumerator
  • Field management during the survey, for quality control

 

 
  Transport Services (Food and non-food) any location within the Country  
  Commodity handling Labour and Warehouse Cleaning Services  
  Third Party Logistics Services-performing logistics services on behalf of WFP to locations within the country  
  Pest Control and Fumigation  
  Clearing and Forwarding services  
  Sale of Unfit food for Human Consumption (UHC)  
  Manpower Services (Outsourced Staffs)  
  Crane Transportation and Forklift services  
 

Food Procurement – Food Suppliers

Milled rice 25% and 100% broken We buy both locally produced & Imported Rice  
Pulses – cow peas and pigeon peas Mainly Pigeon Peas and black-eyed peas  
Vegetable Oil WFP may buy both locally produced oil and Imported oil  
Salt Iodized salt  
Micronutrient Premix-FBF-V13, Potassium Chloride, DCP.    

 

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