China Food Safety Improvement Project (Китайская Народная Республика - Тендер #69332596)

NOTICE AT-A-GLANCE

• Project ID

P162178

• Project Title

China Food Safety Improvement Project

• Country

China

• Notice No

OP00416142

• Notice Type

Request for Expression of Interest

• Notice Status

Published

• Borrower Bid Reference

GDCS-008

• Procurement Method

Quality And Cost-Based Selection

• Language of Notice

English

• Submission Deadline Date/Time

Jan 07, 2026 09:30

• Published Date

Dec 16, 2025

• CONTACT INFORMATION
• Organization/Department

Guangdong Provincial Center of Agro-product Safety and Quality

• Name

Shuheng Zhang

• Address

135 Xianlie Dong Road, Guangzhou

• City

• Province/State

China

• Postal Code

• Country

China

• Phone

020-87590235

• Email

nynct_ncpzx_zhangsh@gd.gov.cn

• Website

Request for Expression of Interests

Country：People"s Republic of China

Project Name: IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) Project

Numbers: 9213-CN

Financial Risk Sharing Mechanism Project Third-Party Service Institutions

Contract Number: GDCS-008

The Government of the People"s Republic of China has obtained a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to improve food safety management at the national and sub-national levels, and to reduce food safety risks in certain value chains. The project is implemented by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), Guangdong Province, and Shandong Province (Yantai City).

As part of the project, Guangdong Province plans to establish a financial risk-sharing mechanism, using $40 million from the Bank loan funds to set up a financial risk compensation fund pool (hereinafter referred to as the "Fund Pool"), aimed at specifically enhancing the quality and safety control levels across the full value chain of agricultural products and pre-cooked food industries such as vegetables, lychee, pigs, and aquatic products in the project area, and addressing the challenges of difficult and expensive financing faced by new types of agricultural operators, rural collective economic organizations, and farmers (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementing Entities"). The project initially focuses on four industries—vegetables, lychee, pigs, and aquatic products—as well as the pre-cooked food industry in five cities: Guangzhou, Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing, while also considering other industries.

This contract utilizes World Bank loan funds to purchase third-party service institutions for the financial risk-sharing mechanism project (hereinafter referred to as the "Third-Party Service Institutions"), to provide services for the orderly and compliant lending and risk compensation work of cooperating financial institutions, and to assist in the establishment and management of the project database. The contract implementation period is 36 months, with an estimated total input of 210 person-months. The anticipated start date of the task is July 1, 2025. For a detailed task outline, please refer to the attachment (Note: Please contact the Procurement Agent for the attachments of the task outline).

Guangdong Provincial Center for Agricultural Product Quality Safety (Guangdong Green Food Development Center) is now inviting qualified and interested service institutions to provide third-party services for the financial risk-sharing mechanism project.

A. Scope and Content of the Consulting services

1. Responsible for drafting detailed management methods, operation manuals, loan usage standards, risk prevention, and emergency management operation guidelines, etc., providing and operating the information management platform for the financial risk-sharing mechanism project;

2. Assist in the selection of financial institutions;

3. Assist in establishing and managing the project database;

4. Responsible for accepting financing reports, reviewing the financing projects applied for by financial institutions, and ensuring that the financing projects included in the risk protection scope meet the project requirements;

5. Responsible for verifying and summarizing the loan data reported by financial institutions in accordance with project regulations, and establishing accounting books;

6. Responsible for accepting, reviewing, and summarizing the compensation application materials submitted by financial institutions, establishing accounting books, verifying whether the borrower is indeed unable to fulfill their loan repayment obligations, and reporting to the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs;

7. Responsible for summarizing the non-performing loans that have been approved by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, establishing accounting books, and urging financial institutions to promptly recover the reported non-performing loans before the distribution of compensation funds.

8. Responsible for summarizing the non-performing loans that have received compensation funds, establishing accounting books, and urging financial institutions to fully fulfill their recovery and collection obligations, and promptly return the recovered collection and disposal funds to the fund pool.

9. Responsible for summarizing the return of recovery and disposal funds for non-performing loans from financial institutions and establishing accounting books.

10. Responsible for supervising whether the loan funds of the implementing entities are used in accordance with project regulations.

11. Responsible for monthly summary and reporting to the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on cooperation with financial institutions, the operating status of project entities, and the use of risk compensation funds, etc..

12. Provide relevant materials for this project in a timely manner as required by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

13. Assist the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in assessing financial institutions and cooperate with the World Bank and other related departments for audit and supervision work.

B. Criteria for Shortlist Evaluation

(1) Legally registered institutions with the capability to independently bear civil liability, operating in a standardized manner, possessing good business reputation, and having a sound financial and accounting system (Note: please provide ① a copy of the Business License, ② company profile,③ a Letter of Commitment affirming sound commercial reputation (the format of the Letter of Commitment may be self-drafted), and④ the audited financial report for the year 2024);

(2) Successfully implemented at least two contracts for consultation services in the fields of agricultural and rural finance, food safety finance, financial risk sharing, financial guarantee management, financial risk analysis, and training, with an annual service fee of no less than 1.35 million yuan per contract (Note: please provide copies of supporting documents, including:⑤ key contract pages (which should reflect the contract name, scope of services, contract value, the page with signatures and seals of parties).

(3) Required Personnel Profiles

Key experts will not be evaluated during the shortlist stage; however, the proposal"s compliance with the required personnel profiles and service level expectations will be assessed.

Interested consultants shall submit the information and documents specified in B. Criteria for Shortlist Evaluation, to demonstrate their qualifications and capability to perform the consulting services. The submission shall also include the contact details (e.g., address, telephone number, and e-mail address) of the consultant"s contact.

Interested consultant should pay attention to the provisions concerning conflict of interest in the Procurement Regulations for Investment Project Financing (IPF) Borrowers (November 2020) (see: www.worldbank.org).

Consultant may submit expressions of interest jointly with other firms to enhance their qualifications, but such collaboration shall be clearly indicated as being in the form of a consortium and/or subcontracting. If a consortium is chosen and subsequently selected, all parties to the consortium shall bear joint and several liabilities for the entire contract. In the case of joint venture, each of the members of the joint venture must be reasonably strong on their own to carry out the assignment in the event the other members of the JV withdraw.

The project will be selected in accordance with the Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) method specified in the Procurement Regulations.

This Request for Expressions of Interest for consulting services is published on the China Tendering and Bidding Public Service Platform World Bank Section (https://bulletin.cebpubservice.com/bank/index.html) and China Procurement and Bidding Network (https://www.chinabidding.cn/).

Further information may be obtained from the Procurement Agent between December XX, 2025 and December XX, 2025 from 9:00 to 11:30 AM and 13:00 to 17:00 PM (Beijing time, excluding holidays).

Expressions of Interest and related supporting documents (such as company profile, performance materials, brief service proposal, relevant personnel qualifications, etc.) must be delivered in written form (by hand delivery, mail, fax, or email, one original and four copies in English and Chinese; the original and copies should be identical; in case of discrepancy, the English original shall prevail) and must be received by 9:30 AM on December XX, 2025, at the address: XX, 6th Floor, Guangren Building, No. 1 Guangren Road, Guangzhou, China, Attn: Ms. Guo; Tel: 010-87945198-503/504; E-mail: guoying@ck.citic.com; zhangfan@ck.citic.com. Consultants intending to submit via mail, fax, or email are requested to contact the Tendering Agent for confirmation first.

Client: Guangdong Provincial Center for Agri-Product Quality Safety (Guangdong Green Food Development Center)

Contact Person: Mr. Liu

Address: No. 135, Xianlie East Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Postal Code: 510230

Phone: 020-37288944

Email: nynct_ncpzx_zhangsh@gd.gov.cn

Procurement Agent: CITIC International Tendering Co., Ltd.

Contact Person: Ms. Guo and Mr. Zhang

Address: Room 1811, 18th Floor, Building 59, East 3rd Ring Middle Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Postal Code: /

Phone: 010-87945198-503/504

Fax: /

Email: guoying@ck.citic.com; zhangfan@ck.citic.com

Attachment: IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) Project Task Outline for Third-Party Consulting Services for Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism Project

Attachment 1:

IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) Project

Task Outline for Third-Party Consulting Services for Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism Project

I. Project Background

• Brief Introduction

In order to thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on strengthening food safety work, to accelerate the improvement of food quality and safety levels, and to promote the innovative development of the food industry. Following a request from the Chinese government, the World Bank"s Board of Executive Directors approved a loan of $400 million to China"s Food Safety Demonstration Project in March 2021. The loan is intended to assist China in strengthening food safety management at the national and local levels and reducing safety risks in the food value chain. The project is led by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, with Shandong and Guangdong as pilot provinces, among which Guangdong Province received a loan amount of $260 million. In December 2023, the Ministry of Finance of China officially signed the loan agreement for the China Food Safety Demonstration Project with the World Bank, which officially came into effect in March 2024.

The Guangdong project includes four components: (1) the construction of agricultural product quality safety supervision mechanisms; (2) the construction of agricultural product quality safety supervision capabilities; (3) the construction of full value chain improvement projects for agricultural products; and (4) the construction of project implementation management and performance evaluation mechanisms.

Third part of the project focusing on the construction of the full value chain enhancement for agricultural products will assist family farms, cooperatives, small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises, leading companies, e-commerce firms, distribution and logistics service providers, and food business operators, in supporting food safety improvement demonstrations along the selected value chains. In addition to direct investment for facility upgrades, this part of the project will also utilize credit lines and risk-sharing mechanisms through participating financial institutions to facilitate borrowers" access to food safety credit and establish incentives for borrowers to meet agricultural product quality safety and food safety standards.

The innovative aspect of the project in Guangdong Province is the establishment of a financial risk-sharing mechanism. The province plans to use World Bank loan funds to set up a risk fund pool, targeting the enhancement of the quality and safety control levels across the full value chain of agricultural products such as vegetables, lychee, pigs, aquatic products, and pre-cooked food industries within the project area. This initiative aims to solve the problem of difficult and expensive financing for improving agricultural product quality safety. The Guangdong Project Office has actively communicated with potential participating financial institutions, and they have expressed their willingness to provide loan funds for value chain borrowers to improve food safety. However, they hope to establish a financial risk-sharing mechanism that can facilitate financing for implementing entities by reducing collateral requirements or transferring and dispersing their risks. In the medium to long term, this will reduce the loan risks for food safety investments and increase financing channels for value chain participants.

(II) Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism

Guangdong Province will focus on improving the quality safety of agricultural products in the value chains of pigs, aquatic products, lychee, and vegetables, and promote an increase in agricultural quality safety credit for borrowers, especially family farms, cooperatives, and small and medium-sized enterprises, by establishing a financial risk-sharing mechanism. This mechanism will utilize $40 million in World Bank funding to establish a risk fund pool for agricultural product quality safety. By means of credit enhancement and risk compensation, it will motivate banks and leverage financing from participating financial institutions, specifically for the quality and safety enhancement of the full value chain enterprises and farmers involved in pigs, aquatic products, lychee, and vegetables, effectively addressing the challenges of difficult and expensive financing for agricultural enterprises (farmers). The financial risk-sharing mechanism will be managed by the Provincial Project Office, with the day-to-day management entrusted to a third-party service institution.

1、Guiding Principles

The financial risk-sharing mechanism will take into account the World Bank"s principles on credit guarantee programs and cover the governance, management, administration, sustainability, and monitoring of the financial risk-sharing mechanism. The following principles are most relevant to the type of financial risk-sharing mechanism designed for this project:

1.Credit guarantee programs should be adequately funded to achieve their policy objectives (Principle 2).

2.Credit guarantee programs should have sound management, internal controls, and risk management systems (Principles 6, 7, and 8)

3.Credit guarantee programs should adopt clearly defined and transparent eligibility and qualification criteria for lenders and credit instruments, reflecting the balance between the scope of services, additionality, and financial sustainability (Principles 9 and 10).

4.The guarantees issued should be partial guarantees, thereby providing incentives for lenders to assess risks prudently and correctly (Principle 11)

5.Credit guarantee programs should adopt transparent and favorable risk-based pricing policies to ensure the financial sustainability of the guarantee program (Principle 12).

6.The claims management process should be efficient, well-documented, and transparent, providing incentives for the recovery of loan losses (Principle 13)

7.Credit guarantee programs should accept financial reporting (Principle 14).

8.The performance of credit guarantee programs should be regularly evaluated, particularly their outreach, additionality, and financial sustainability (Principle 16).

2. Available Funds under the Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism

The project will establish a $40 million risk-sharing fund pool for cooperating financial institutions to leverage their support for the compliant project construction of targeted entities and to compensate for the principal losses of cooperating financial institutions. It is anticipated that this risk fund will reduce the risk exposure of participating financial institutions through the financial risk-sharing mechanism arrangements, thereby increasing the motivation of cooperating financial institutions to provide funding for activities aimed at improving agricultural product quality safety. The total credit loan amount for large enterprises in this project database will not exceed 40%, with the remaining 60% to support other new types of agricultural operators, rural collective economic organizations, and farmers to meet their financing needs for acquiring fixed assets and working capital.

II. Purpose of Services

The project aims to engage a third-party service institution to provide comprehensive professional services and training for the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and various project implementation units in the implementation of the financial risk-sharing mechanism. This ensures compliance with the regulations of the World Bank and the Chinese government, smooth implementation of the financial risk-sharing mechanism, and the security of funds. It is anticipated that the mechanism will leverage financial institutions to provide loans to 2,000 enterprises (organizations, farmers), effectively addressing the challenges of difficult and expensive financing for the enhancement of agricultural product quality safety.

III. Scope and Service Time of Services

(1) Scope of Services

The project initially focuses on five cities: Guangzhou, Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing, with an emphasis on four industries—vegetables, lychee, pigs, and aquatic products—as well as the pre-cooked food industry, while also considering other industries.

The scope of supported activities is primarily aimed at helping implementing entities meet technical solutions for agricultural product quality and food safety standards, typically clean, green, and blue solutions (including low-carbon, climate-resilient plans), from farm to table, covering various stages of the entire value chain of production, processing, marketing, distribution, and consumption across different industries. Investments unrelated to the enhancement of agricultural product quality safety and those requiring land acquisition or resettlement of residents are not supported. The supported entities plan to support no fewer than 2,000 entities, with large enterprises (referring to those with an annual operating income of 200 million yuan or more) receiving no more than 40% of the total credit loans, and the remaining 60% focusing on supporting other new types of agricultural operators, rural collective economic organizations, and farmers.

Implementing entities within the agricultural product quality safety financial risk-sharing institution"s project database must not have had any major safety production accidents or environmental pollution accidents in the past two years, must not be included in the abnormal business directory, must not have any illegal or disciplinary actions by the main responsible person, must not be included in the list of defaulters, and must commit to providing unconditional access to agricultural product quality safety-related data and information to the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

(II) Service Time

The implementation period of this contract is 36 months, calculated from the date of signing the agreement.

IV. Service Content

The third-party service institution provides full-process services for this project. The specific services include, but are not limited to:

1.Assist in formulating detailed management methods, operation manuals, loan usage standards, risk prevention, and emergency management operation guidelines for the financial risk-sharing mechanism, which will be reviewed and published by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; provide and operate the information management platform for the financial risk-sharing mechanism project.

2.Assist in the selection of cooperating financial institutions, including drafting the technical sections of bidding documents;

3.Assist in establishing and managing the project database, including providing an information management module for the project database, and assisting in the promotion, collection, review, evaluation, and management of implementing entities in accordance with the "Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism Project Database Management Regulations";

4.Be responsible for accepting financing reports, reviewing financing projects applied for by financial institutions, and ensuring that financing projects included in the risk protection scope meet the requirements of this project;

5.Be responsible for verifying and summarizing loan data reported by financial institutions in compliance with the regulations of this project, and establishing an account book;

6.Be responsible for accepting, reviewing, and summarizing compensation application materials submitted by financial institutions, establishing an account book, verifying whether borrowers are indeed unable to fulfill their loan repayment obligations, and reporting to the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs;

7.Be responsible for summarizing non-performing loans that have been approved by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, establishing an account book, and urging financial institutions to promptly recover the reported non-performing loans before the distribution of compensation funds according to the account book.

8.Responsible for summarizing non-performing loans that have received compensation funds, establishing an account book, and urging financial institutions to fully fulfill their recovery and collection obligations based on the account book, ensuring the timely return of recovered collection and disposal funds to the fund pool;

9.Responsible for summarizing the return of recovery and disposal funds for non-performing loans from financial institutions and establishing an account book;

10.Responsible for guiding and supervising whether the use of loan funds by implementing entities complies with the regulations of this project; guiding implementing entities to strengthen risk management, improve investment benefits, and enhance risk resistance capabilities;

11.Responsible for summarizing and reporting to the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on a monthly basis the cooperation status with financial institutions, the operational status of loan entities in the project database, and the use of risk compensation funds, etc.;

12.Provide relevant materials for this project in a timely manner as required by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs;

13.Assist the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in assessing financial institutions and cooperate with the World Bank and other related departments for audit and supervision work.

V. Expected Objectives

The project duration is 36 months. Within this scope of responsibility, it is anticipated that by the end of the project, potential participating financial institutions will be encouraged to provide funding for qualified beneficiaries" compliant projects through the utilization of the financial risk-sharing mechanism, thereby increasing their loan portfolios to improve agricultural product quality safety in specific value chains.

The "Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism Implementation Manual" serves as the procedural document guiding the mechanism. The third-party service institution should regularly collect and provide relevant data to the PMO; when necessary, assist project monitoring and evaluation personnel in verifying the data.

VI. Deliverables and Timeframes

The third-party service institution will provide semi-annual and annual reports (in Chinese and English) to the PPMO on the implementation of the financial risk-sharing mechanism.

• The deliverables include, but are not limited to, the following information:
• The number of entities in the project database;
• The number of guarantees issued;
• The loan amount under guarantees;
• The investment returns of potential participating financial institutions;
• The number of risk compensations issued and the amount of funds;
• The funds for the recovery and disposal of non-performing loans by potential participating financial institutions.
• Basic information of the borrowers: The project name of the venture investment activities undertaken by the borrowers, the amount of borrowing, contact information, geographical location, and a brief description, etc.;
• Any other matters related to the operation of the guarantee program.

Note: The third-party service institution reports to the Leading Group of the IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) PLG and is subject to the supervision of the IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) PMO and the World Bank Project Management Group.

• Delivery Time of Results
  (1) The semi-annual report on the implementation of the financial risk-sharing mechanism shall be prepared and submitted to the Provincial World Bank Office for review before August 1st of each year and February 1st of the following year.
  (2) The annual report on the implementation of the financial risk-sharing mechanism shall be prepared and submitted to the Provincial World Bank Office for review before March 1st of the following year.

VII. Response Time

The response time of the third-party consulting service institution shall not exceed 24 hours.

VIII. Qualification Requirements for the Third-Party Service Institution

(1) Possess the ability to independently bear civil liability; have a good business reputation and a sound financial and accounting system; have the necessary equipment and professional technical capabilities to fulfill the contract; have a good record of paying taxes and social security funds in accordance with the law. There should be no significant violations of the law, no adverse records, no negative social impact, and no serious complaints from project owners in similar work tasks;

(2) Have experience and performance in consulting services in fields such as agricultural and rural finance, food safety finance, financial risk sharing, financial guarantee management, and financial risk analysis and training;

(3) Be familiar with the local conditions of the service area.

(4) Consulting firms may submit letters of interest jointly with other companies to enhance their qualifications, but they should clearly indicate that such a joint submission is in the form of a consortium and/or subcontracting. If a consortium form is selected, and if appointed, each member of the consortium shall jointly and severally be liable for the entire contract.

Ⅸ.Staff Requirements

X. Support that can be provided by the Provincial PMO

The Provincial PMO will work closely with the third-party service institution, designate a dedicated contact person, and provide relevant information and other forms of support to the third-party service institution.

Other institutions involved in the financial risk-sharing mechanism will assist the third-party service institution in its work.

XI. Important Regulations to be Implemented

(1) "Implementation Plan for the Agricultural Product Quality Safety Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism Project under the IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) Project" (Attachment 2);

(2) "Management Measures for the Project Database of the Agricultural Product Quality Safety Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism Project under the IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) Project" (Attachment 3);

(3) "Performance Assessment Measures for Financial Institutions of the Financial Risk-Sharing Mechanism Project under the IBRD Guangdong Agricultural Product Quality Safety Improvement (Demonstration) Project" (Attachment 4).

Источник закупки

Перейти

Импорт - Экспорт по стране Китайская Народная Республика