PCMMDC Punjab RFP for Digital Financial Services and E-Ticketing Across 113 Cattle Markets

Punjab Cattle Market Management & Development Company (PCMMDC) invites separate Technical and Financial Proposals for the competitive grant of Digital Financial Services Access Rights and the provision of an integrated E-Ticketing and Digital Payment Solution across all 113 cattle markets identified in its Request for Proposals (RFP).

PCMMDC is a public-sector company established under Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2017. Its objectives include establishing, organizing, managing, operating, regulating and developing cattle markets throughout Punjab, including mechanisms for collecting animal fees and providing cattle-market services. This project supports the Government of Punjab’s digitalisation initiatives and policy objectives for greater adoption of cashless and electronic payment channels in public-service delivery and receipt collection.

The project is one indivisible province-wide opportunity. Each bidder must submit one proposal covering the complete portfolio of 113 cattle markets. Partial, cattle-market-specific, geographical or otherwise limited proposals will not be accepted. Joint ventures and consortium proposals are not permitted. The bidder itself must satisfy the Mandatory Eligibility and Qualification Requirements in Section 5 of the RFP and remain responsible for project performance.

The successful bidder must, at its own cost, provide, integrate, deploy, operate, maintain and support the E-Ticketing and Digital Payment Solution, together with the Digital Financial Services presence, payment acceptance infrastructure and other requirements of the RFP. PCMMDC will not pay the successful bidder any development, implementation, integration, licensing or operating fee for the solution.

The solution must enable payments against prescribed e-tickets through the successful bidder’s payment acceptance and acquiring infrastructure using interoperable digital payment channels. A person making such a payment must not be required, merely for that purpose, to open or maintain an account or wallet with the successful bidder.

The competitive process comprises separate Technical and Financial Proposals. Technical Proposals will first be assessed against the Mandatory Eligibility and Qualification Requirements and then evaluated under the Technical Evaluation and Scoring System in the RFP. Only the Financial Proposals of bidders declared technically qualified will be opened. Subject to fulfilment of all RFP requirements, the project will be awarded to the technically qualified bidder achieving the highest combined Financial Score under Section 7, based on the Service Charge and Revenue Share percentages offered in its Financial Proposal.

The complete RFP is available for free download from pcmmdc.punjab.gov.pk from the date of publication of this invitation. Interested bidders may also obtain a physical copy from PCMMDC following the procedure in the Bid Data Sheet. Complete Technical and Financial Proposals must be prepared and sealed separately in accordance with the RFP and received by PCMMDC before the submission deadline.

Any clarification, amendment or addendum issued by PCMMDC under the RFP forms part of the RFP. Bidders are responsible for reviewing the complete RFP and subsequent clarifications, amendments and addenda before submitting their proposals.

Issuer and contact: Chief Executive Officer, Punjab Cattle Market Management & Development Company, 8th Floor, Vertex Building CBD, Quaid District, Lahore, Pakistan. Phone: +92 42-99235075-0. Email: info@pcmmdc.punjab.gov.pk. Reference: IPL-11868.