AIIB tenders (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank)

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a multilateral development bank focused on infrastructure. It finances projects in its member economies through sovereign-backed loans to governments and non-sovereign-backed financing for private and commercial borrowers. Contracts under AIIB-financed projects are usually awarded by the client that implements the project, under the AIIB Procurement Policy, and are open to firms and consultants internationally.

AIIB concentrates on infrastructure and other production sectors, and it states a priority for green and low-carbon projects. Financed sectors include:

• Transport: roads, railways, ports, and aviation.
• Energy: generation, transmission, and renewable power.
• Water: supply, sanitation, irrigation, and flood management.
• Urban development, sustainable cities, and social infrastructure.
• Digital infrastructure and technology-enabled connectivity.

AIIB publishes procurement and consulting opportunities in a small number of official places. For any project you can trace a notice back to its source:

• The AIIB Business Opportunities portal at aiib.org, which lists project procurement notices, consultant opportunities, and the Bank’s own corporate procurement.
• Each financed project’s page, which carries the project summary, documents, and procurement plan.
• Requests for Expressions of Interest for consulting assignments, issued by the client or by AIIB.
• UN Development Business, a subscription service that aggregates development-bank procurement notices in one feed.

AIIB separates project procurement, done by the client under an AIIB-financed project, from corporate procurement, the Bank’s own institutional purchases. Check which stream a notice belongs to, because the rules, client, and contact point differ.

For sovereign-backed projects, procurement is carried out by the client under the AIIB Procurement Policy, and AIIB reviews key steps and gives its no-objection. The policy rests on value for money, transparency, fairness, and open competition. For consulting assignments the usual path is:

1. Expression of interest. The client publishes a Request for Expressions of Interest, and firms submit evidence of relevant experience.
2. Shortlist. The client evaluates the submissions and draws up a shortlist of qualified firms.
3. Request for proposals. Shortlisted firms receive the RFP, the terms of reference, and the selection method.
4. Proposals. Firms submit a technical proposal, including expert CVs, and, for most methods, a separate financial proposal.
5. Evaluation and award. Technical and financial scores are combined using the weights set in the RFP, and the winning firm is invited to negotiate the contract.

AIIB relies on internationally recognized selection methods. For consultants, quality- and cost-based selection (QCBS), which scores technical quality and price together, is common; goods and works are usually procured through open competitive tendering. The exact method is stated in each notice and in the procurement plan.

Many AIIB projects are co-financed with other multilateral development banks, such as the World Bank, ADB, or EBRD. When another bank leads, AIIB can rely on that partner’s procurement framework instead of running a parallel process. In practice this means a project financed by AIIB may be procured under World Bank or ADB rules, forms, and portals.

Always confirm which procurement framework governs a specific AIIB notice before you prepare documents. If a co-financier’s rules apply, you may need that bank’s standard forms, such as the World Bank CV Form TECH-6, rather than AIIB’s own templates.

A competitive AIIB bid takes weeks to assemble, so begin as soon as a relevant notice appears. Practical steps:

1. Read the full project. Open the project page and procurement plan to understand scope, budget, and timeline.
2. Confirm the framework. Check whether AIIB’s own rules or a co-financier’s rules apply, and use the matching forms.
3. Confirm eligibility. Review country, experience thresholds, and conflict-of-interest rules before you commit.
4. Assemble the team early. Identify the experts you will propose and collect their CVs in the required format.
5. Write to the terms of reference. Map your technical proposal directly to the evaluation criteria.
6. Prepare the financial proposal separately, keeping it consistent with the staffing and inputs in the technical proposal, and submit before the deadline through the channel named in the notice.

Silka brings live AIIB opportunities together with feeds from the World Bank, ADB, EBRD, IsDB, and UZEX, so you can track them without checking each portal by hand. With Silka you can:

• See active AIIB notices filtered by sector, country, and procurement method.
• Open the original project page and procurement plan directly from each listing.
• Tell at a glance whether AIIB or a co-financier’s rules apply, so you prepare the right forms.
• Generate expert CVs in the required format and assemble technical and financial envelopes.
• Invite independent experts into a specific tender workspace and track readiness against the deadline.