Procurement and Prepositioning of WASH Core Pipeline Supplies in Afghanistan The proposed project will enable DACAAR to continue to support the WASH Cluster partners with the timely availability of WASH Core Supplies in order to strengthen and speed up humanitarian response in Afghanistan. 
DACAAR proposed project aims to directly contribute to the prevention and containment of the COVID 19 and AWD outbreaks and to improve the overall hygiene conditions of at-risk populations by procuring, prepositioning, and making available WASH supplies as a core WASH pipeline supply in support of WASH Cluster partners. 
Given that this is a stockpiling project and the distribution of the supplies will be undertaken by other WASH partners, the target beneficiaries will not be assessed by DACAAR but by partners. DACAAR will report on the beneficiaries based on reports from WASH partners who accessed the stockpiles. DACAAR will procure and preposition 9,500 Hygiene Kits plus two months worth of hygiene  consumables in line with the new WASH cluster approved hygiene kit list and following the cluster's strategy.  The items will empower WASH Cluster partners to reach 66,500 people in need. The Hygiene kits will be stocked in the following six strategic geographical hubs: Kabul Kandahar city Herat city Mazar-e-Sharif Kunduz city and Jalalabad with the potential of being moved to locations where the need is greatest. DACAAR will maintain sufficient flexibility to transfer supplies among the warehouses. Partners can readily access available stock of hygiene kits for use in their response projects based on approval from the WASH Cluster. Procurement of the items will be performed as part of a comprehensive Invitation to Bid (ITB) per each required unit, processed following DACAAR procurement procedures which is in line with AHF procurement regulations. The ITB process will include a market assessment enabling DACAAR to identify and contract the cheapest bidder who can deliver the highest quality of the required items. Procured items will be checked stringently to ensure the highest quality (e.g. given recent lessons learned from the sector on fake Dettol soap in the market). The following will be performed during the ITB to ensure the quality of the items procured
- Physical Description: Based on experience and technical know-how, the assigned technical colleagues know the physical attribute of the quality required and check the delivered units accordingly.
- Industrial Standards Certificate/ Proving Documents: - The bidders are usually asked for the required documents.
- Legal Import: DACAAR buys legally imported items having proper custom.

JUSTIFICATION FOR REDUCED NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES: Please note that when DACAAR submitted its first draft proposal, it was planned to procure 15,000 hygiene kits sufficient for 105,000 beneficiaries.  This estimate was based on the previous WASH Cluster approved hygiene kit content list  However, the WASH cluster recently updated its HK content and distribution strategy, thus requesting DACAAR to include new items in the list and distribution of hygiene consumables sufficient for an additional 2 months.  This change by the WASH Cluster has significantly increased the cost of HK per family (from USD 36 to USD 84) thus reducing the number of beneficiaries that can be covered by the project.   Despite this, given that it is a procurement and prepositioning project, 81% of the total budget goes directly towards procurement, while 9% goes towards staffing (procurement and logistics staff, storekeepers, guards, support staff etc) and 3 percent goes towards operational costs. We believe this is a reasonable distribution of project resources whereby a significant portion of the resources go directly to beneficiaries.. Endorsement from the WASH Cluster has been included in the document tab for your further information.