A tender is being advertised to procure an automated Multimodal and Modular Biometrics Authentication System in Rwanda, under the plan name, issued by the Rwanda Digital Acceleration Project.
The project will receive bids until 7th May 2025 at 10:00 Local Time. The government is seeking a contractor to develop the foundational, modular biometric infrastructure for the Umucyo e-Procurement system.
The official tender document could not be accessed by IdentityWeek.net in the original post providing further details.
Operating for five years, the Rwanda Digital Acceleration Project, promoting digital investment for recovery, resilience and connectivity in the country, receives sovereign funding of USD 100 million, which was approved in December 2021. It draws a roadmap for digital recovery since the pandemic, increasing protected access to broadband and selected digital public services and strengthening the digital economic ecosystem.
The project was shared proceeds from a financing round granted by the World Bank to support the Government of Rwanda’s goals for digital transformation. Covering the cost of the Rwanda Digital Acceleration Project in June 2023, other proceeds were funnelled into the development of the SDID Pre-enrolment and identity-proofing solution, which invited sealed bids to complete the project in 6 months.
The country-wide digital transformation effort focuses on critical infrastructure building on “existing digital foundations” that future-proof economic growth, of which the current tender for biometric authentication is a sub-component.
For other components, read here.
