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                              PROCUREMENT PLAN

                   Of RRLP From Aug’2012 to July’2013

I. General



1. Project Information:



   Country:               India



   Borrower:                Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance
                            Government of India, New Delhi, India.

   Project Name:           Rajasthan Rural Livelihood Project (RRLP)



   Responsible Agency: Director, State Project Management Unit, RRLP,
                        Panchayati and Rural Development Department,
                        Government of Rajasthan India



  Project at a Glance:

         Rajasthan Rural Livelihood Project (RRLP) is an ambitious project of the
   Government of Rajasthan for the alleviation of poverty in the State. The RRLP
   has been conceived as a project that will support livelihood not only through
   smaller groups – the Self Help groups (SHGs) but these will be aggregated at
   the higher levels of achieving scale and ensuring benefits from the growing
   market economy. These SHGs will aggregate in CDO The CDO will receive grant
   from the project and in turn returnable support fund to its SHGs of their
   capitalization. Further these groups will take form of higher level financial
      institutions- Cluster Development Organization (CDO) and activity based
      organizations in the form of Producer Organizations (PO).

      2. Bank’s approval Date of the Procurement Plan [Original] (Date of signing
         of agreement)

      3. Period covered by this Procurement Plan August, 2012 to July 2013




II.      Goods and Works and non-consulting services.


      1. Prior Review Threshold: Procurement Decisions subject to Prior Review by
         the Bank as stated in Appendix 1 to the Guidelines of Procurement:
         [Thresholds of applicable procurement methods (not limited to the list
         below) will be determined by the Procurement Specialist /Procurement
         Accredited Staff based on the assessment of the implementing agency’s
         capacity.
       Procurement          Value per contract US$        Prior Review Threshold US$

1.     ICB (Goods)          Contracts estimated to cost   All ICB contracts and contact
                            more than US$ 400,000         above US$ 500,000

2.     NCB (Goods)          Contracts estimated to cost   First 2 contracts NCB
                            more than US$ 30,000 and      regardless of value and all
                            <= US$ 400,000 equivalent     subsequent contracts costing
                            (>=INR 1.2 million but <INR   more than US$ 400,000
                            12.0 million)                 equivalent each will be prior
                                                          reviewed by the World Bank

                                                          All other contracts will be post
                                                          reviewed by the World Bank.

3.     Shopping ( Goods-    Contracts estimated to cost   Post Review only.
       including issue of   less than or equal to US$
       supply orders        30,000 equivalent (<= INR
       under DGS&D rate
       contracts)           1.2 million)

4.     Direct Contracting   Contracts estimated to cost     Post review only. All contracts
       (Goods)              US$ 1,000 equivalent or less    exceeding US$ 1000 each to
                                                            be awarded on direct
                                                            contracting basis will be
                                                            subject to prior review and
                                                            agreement with the Bank.

5.     ICB (Works)          Civil works estimated to cost   All ICB contracts
                            more than US$ 5 million[>
                            INR 200 million] equivalent

6.     NCB (Works)          Civil works estimated to cost   First two works contracts
                            more than US$ 50,000 and        under NCB regardless of value
                            Less than or equal to US$       and all subsequent contracts
                            5[<= INR 200] million           costing moue than US$
                            equivalent                      500,000 equivalent each

7.     Shopping (Works)     Civil works estimated to cost Post review only
                            the equivalent of US$ 50,000
                            or less



2.      Pre-qualification. Not Applicable
3.      Proposed Procedures of CDD Components (as per paragraph. 3.7 of the
        Guidelines): The project has prepared a Procurement Manual of Project
        Management and Producer Organizations, chapters 7 and 8 of which detail
        the proposed procedures of procurement under World Bank financing.
      Reference: To (If Any) Project Operational/Procurement Manual: Procurement
     Manual of Project Management and Producers Organization as approved by the
                                                                            Bank.