1. Background
Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) is an Ethiopian Development Organization established in 2005 and reregistered by the Authority for Civil Society Organizations as Ethiopian Development Civil Society Organization with Certificate № 0321 under Proclamation № 1113/2019. ECDD is working with other organizations to promote and facilitate the inclusion of persons with disabilities and disability issues in mainstream service delivery and development programs envisioning an Inclusive Ethiopia where persons with disabilities exercise the same rights and have access to the same services and opportunities enjoyed by other citizens. ECDD envisions an inclusive Ethiopia, where children, youth, and adults with disabilities, regardless of gender or kind of disability, as well as their parents and families, enjoy the same rights and have access to the same health, educational, and social services, training, and work opportunities enjoyed by other citizens.
As part of the Advancing Disability Voices, Rights Advocacy, and National Coordination in Ethiopia (ADVANCE) Project, ECDD wants to deploy a company for supplying and installation of Electronic Audible Traffic Signals together with Vibrotactile Indicators in Addis Ababa. Thus, ECDD working in collaboration with the Addis Abeba Traffic Management Agency is looking for a qualified and interested supplier to provide the below-mentioned devices along with the audio signals.
2. Specification
Device Name | Electronic Audible Traffic Signal (eATS) |
Required Units | Audible Unit |
Tactile Unit with | |
Required Features | Audible tone or speech message when “walk” indication is on |
Intersection or street name speech message when “walk” indication is on | |
A pushbutton made from cast aluminum and hard nickel plate | |
Vibrotactile with raised directional tactile arrow together with a pushbutton locator tone. · The vibrotactile indication should communicate to pedestrians who are deaf-blind · Tactile arrows should be located on the pushbutton, have high visual contrast (light on dark or dark on light), and shall be aligned parallel to the direction of travel on the associated crosswalk. · All audible sounds should emanate from the push button station. · All audible sounds from pushbutton stations should be synchronized. · Each audible feature should have independently-adjustable minimum and maximum volume levels · Pushbutton locator tones should have a duration of 0.15 seconds or less and should repeat at 1-second intervals. · Pushbutton locator tones should be intensity responsive to ambient sound, and be audible 6 to 12 feet from the pushbutton · The locating tone should have more than 5 walk sounds that can be field-selectable · The locating tone should have more than 3 pedestrian clearance sound choices that can be field-selectable · The pushbutton system should have user-selectable multiple language capabilities | |
A weather-proof speaker protected by a vandal-resistant screen | |
Multi-operation period with built-in high-precision clock chip, free from interruption of power-down mode and less than 2.5-minute yearly operation error. | |
Available to adjust the volume among 81 grades by control box and when the volume is 0, the power amplifier will work in silence without any noise. | |
Connected to the control box by USB interface and easy to set up; | |
Wood or metal pole mount: fastening on poles through rotating fixing arm easy to install, also on existing supports for poles | |
Yellow in color | |
Having a sign plate with street name in Amharic and English | |
Power supply: Devices should powered directly from the traffic lights they are linked to; | |
Required factory settings for specific features such as the “walk” indicator volume and locator tone volume | |
Tones/sounds/signals requirements | Locating tone at 880 Hz plus harmonic, 0.1-second duration, 1-second interval during pedestrian clearance, and don’t walk interval. |
Cuckoo sound at 1250 Hz and 1000 Hz, 0.6-second duration, 1.8-second interval, during walk intervals only. | |
Chirp sound from 2700 Hz to 1700 Hz, 0.2 second duration, 1 second interval, during walk intervals only. | |
Emission of a constant acoustic signal to indicate the reservation made by a blind person, with a length of maximum 5s and frequency of 2Khz. |
3. Duration of the work
The service shall be completed within two months’ time from the signing of the agreement.
4. Mode of payment
The fee for the service will be made in three phases; the first phase of the payment will be 30% upon the signing of an agreement between ECDD and the service provider. The second 30% is upon the installation of the devices with the necessary messages and signals for use by persons with visual impairment. The third installment is 40% of the agreed amount upon the approval of the quality of the work by ECDD and Addis Ababa Traffic Management Agency. Taxes will be deducted from all payments to be made to the consultant according to government rules.
5. Requirements
The company or supplier should fulfil the following requirements
· legally registered under the Ethiopian business law,
· has renewed its business license,
· has a good reputation with similar work.
6. Selection Criteria
The Technical and Financial Proposals will account for 70% and 30% respectively as a selection criterion, broken down as follows:
Criteria | Score |
Financial | 30% |
Technical proposal: | |
Experience related to the task | 30% |
Technical proposal | 40% |
Total | 100% |