Specific Procurement Notice

 

Request for Bids

Plant

Design, Supply and Installation

(Two-envelope Bidding Process, Without Prequalification)

 

Employer:	JSC National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan
Project:	Electricity Sector Transformation and Resilient Transmission (ESTART)
Contract title:	Design, Procurement and Installation of Fiber Optic cables in Andijan, Namangan and Fergana
Country:	Republic of Uzbekistan
Credit No.:	IDA-69430
RFB No:	RFB/FOC/2021-01
Issued on:	August 2024

 

1.          The Republic of Uzbekistan has applied for financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Electricity Sector Transformation and Resilient Transmission (ESTART) Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the Contract Design, Procurement and Installation of Fiber Optic cables in Andijan, Namangan and Fergana.  This include Optical cables are hereafter named OPGW for Optical Ground Wire, UGFOC for Underground Fiber Optic Cable and OFAC for Optical Fiber Approach Cable. The total length of the cable is 438 km to be installed in in Andijan, Namangan and Fergana regions.

2.          The JSC National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan (NEGU) now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders Design, Procurement and Installation of Fiber Optic cables in Andijan, Namangan and Fergana regions.

The Bidders’ qualification requirements include:

General Experience:

• Experience under construction contracts in the role of prime contractor, JV member, sub-contractor, or management contractor for at least the last 5 years, starting 1st January 2019.

Specific Experience:

     ♦   A minimum number of 1 (one) contract with a value of at least $5,000,000 (five million United States Dollars) in power sector construction projects that have been satisfactorily and substantially [1] completed as a prime contractor, joint venture member [2], management contractor or sub-contractor between 1st January 2014 and bid submission deadline.

     ♦   As a prime contractor, joint venture member, management contractor or sub-contractor, successful completion of at least 200 km OPGW installation, as applicable, that have been successfully or substantially completed, preferably in the electricity sector companies, during the last 10 (ten) years prior to the applications submission deadline, in the countries, those are similar to the energy system of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The similarity should be based on the configuration, standards, and technical parameters within the power grid complex. For each commitment, the Bidder shall provide details of the client, country, date, voltage, rating, scope of work and value.

 

Financial Capabilities:

     ♦   Sound financial position and prospective long-term profitability (2020-2024) supported by audited financial statements of at least the three previous years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024).

     ♦   Minimum average annual construction turnover of $5,000,000 (five million United States Dollars), calculated as total certified payments received for contracts in progress and/or completed within the last 5 (five) years, divided by five years.

     ♦   The Bidder shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available, liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means (independent of any contractual advance payment) sufficient to meet the construction cash flow requirements estimated as $1,300,000 (one million and 3 hundred United States Dollars) for the subject contract(s) net of the Bidder’s other commitments.

     ♦   The Bidders shall also demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the Employer, that it has adequate sources of finance to meet the cash flow requirements on works currently in progress and for future contract commitments

     ♦   The audited balance sheets or, if not required by the laws of the Bidder’s Country, other financial statements acceptable to the Employer, for the last 3 (three) years shall be submitted and must demonstrate the current soundness of the Bidder’s financial position and indicate its prospective long-term profitability.

Experience in managing ES aspects

     ♦   For contracts [substantially completed and under implementation] as prime contractor, joint venture member, or Subcontractor between 1st January 2019 and Application submission deadline, experience in managing ES risks and impacts in the following aspects: Design Supply and Installation of OPGW network.

 

3.          Bidding will be conducted through international competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”) and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the Procurement Regulations.

4.          Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from JSC National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan, Makhmudjon Mukimov – PM SCADA, ERP and PIU (neguopgw@gmail.com) and inspect the Bidding document during office hours 09:00 to 17:00 hours at the address given below.

5.          The bidding document in English may be obtained by interested bidders on the submission of an application for bidding documents by sending a request to the email address: neguopgw@gmail.com. The document will be sent by e-mail to the address indicated in the application.

6.          Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before October 4, 2024, at 11:00 Tashkent time. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. The outer Bid envelopes marked “ORIGINAL BID”, and the inner envelopes marked “TECHNICAL PART” will be publicly opened in the presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend, at the address below on October 4, 2024 at 11:00 Tashkent time. All envelopes marked “FINANCIAL PART” shall remain unopened and will be held in the safe custody of the Employer until the second public Bid opening.

7.          All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security of US$75,000.00.

8.          Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document.

9.          The address referred to above is:

JSC National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan

Osiyo street 42, Yunusabod district, Tashkent 100084, Uzbekistan.

Floor 4, Room 401.

Phone: +99871 236 66 33.  e-mail: neguopgw@gmail.com