Palestine Trade CENTER (PalTrade)

PalTrade was established in 1998, as a non-profit development organization, which was mandated as the Palestinian National Trade Promotion Organization.  Recently, PalTrade has evolved into an export development organization with a mission to lead the development and sustainable increase of Palestinian exports as a driving force for sustainable national economic growth; and has been instrumental in leading the way to establish a National Export Strategy.  PalTrade provides a wide range of support in the areas of export development and market intelligence, export promotion, and export policy and advocacy.  

PalTRade- EU PROJECT, Creating a businiess enabling environment for green economy in Palestine 

PalTrade has received a grant from the EU to implement a project titled “Creating a Business Enabling Environment for a Green Economy in Palestine” as part of European Union (EU), represented by the European Commission (EC), Support to Civil Society Organizations in Palestine – Economic Development and Local Authorities, To ensure that actions which are funded by the European Union (EU) incorporate information and communication activities designed to raise the awareness of specific or general audiences of the reasons for the action and the EU support for the action in Palestine concerned, as well as the results and the impact of this support , PalTrade will undertake a series of activities to ensure the visibility of the project 

PalTrade has set two specific objectives for this project: 

• Objective 1: To create a national policy that would foster a green enabling environment for Palestinian economic enterprises;
• Objective 2: To build up enterprises’ green capacity to penetrate global markets.

As part of the National Policy component, and within activity 1.1.5, proposing tax and investment incentive packages which encourage the production of green products through environmentally friendly processes; PalTrade will hire a consultant / company to support in the development of an ISO system and issuing the certificates.    

The purpose of this system development and certification tender is to help the project targeting beneficiaries to achieve the Global Gap.

Global GAP certification provides assurance that food has been grown using recognized levels of quality and safety. It also ensures that it has been produced sustainably in a way that respects health, environment, welfare and safety of workers and animals.

The Global gap certification process is to ensure that all aspects of food safety are adhered to elaborate tracking system that guarantees consumers’ health which is the first objective, hence it is well articulated, developed and imperative to have participants well trained on how to establish a proper record keeping system as per the Global gap food safety standard version 5 for Fruits and vegetables. The second objective is to ensure sustainability of the traceability system, which means that the implementer should demonstrate to the farmer the importance of adopting Global gap and set of systems that will guarantee the success of the certification process.

 General terms and Conditions 

• Your proposals should be addressed and submitted to Palestine Trade Canter – Al Balou Street, Mall of Palestine Bldg. 5th floor, in 2 separated financial and technical sealed envelopes no later than Monday, Jun 29, 2020 at 02:00 PM with subject RFQ # PTC-023-06-2020. 
• Winner will bear the cost of the add. 
• The offer should remain valid for a period no less than 60 days after the deadline date specified for submission.
• Offer should be sent by completing the price schedule in Annex 1 in page 6.
• The rates quoted should be fixed for the duration of the contract and should not be subject to adjustment on any account, unless to offer a deduction to the rates. 
• Prices should be in EURO and include VAT. 
• Prices should include delivering the requested items.
• Payment will be issued within 30 days from the date of the issue of the invoice and upon acceptable of the deliverables.
• PalTrade will award the contract to the bidder whose offer has been determined to be responsive to requests.

Click to download: RFPglobal gap system development