Nabavka usluga na implementaciji Projekta pogona na biomasu sa jedinicom za kogeneraciju za gradsko grijanje Prijedora

Prijedor District Heating Project

INVITATION FOR TENDERS

Supply and Installation of biomass-based plant with cogeneration unit

This Invitation for Tenders follows the General Procurement Notice for this project, which was published among EBRD Procurement Opportunities on 1 August 2014 (www.ebrd.com).

Toplana AD Prijedor (the Employer), has applied for a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) towards the cost of Prijedor District Heating Project.

The Employer now invites sealed tenders from contractors for the following contract to be funded from the proceeds of the loan:

Biomass-based district heating plant with 2x10 MWt capacity with a 1 MWe cogeneration unit, including but not necessarily limited to:

- Design of the new biomass cogeneration plant, including obtaining the necessary permits
- Civil works including landscaping, foundation, boilerhouse building and related installations
- Biomass storage and processing facilities
- Supply and installation of heat-only boilers and related equipment
- Supply and installation of CHP system
- Trainings, testing, commissioning, and spare parts for stockholding for the first 36 months

The estimated completion time under the contract is 48 weeks for the entire plant or 36 weeks for the entire plant without CHP system.
To qualify for award of the contract, the tenderer shall meet the following qualifying requirements:
a) Experience as a prime contractor in the execution of at least 2 successfully completed similar contracts over the last 5 (five) years, with at least one of them having a value of not less than EUR 4 million equivalent;
b) Experience of the tenderer in design and construction (design and build contract) of at least of 3 biomass cogeneration plants with a design capacity of at least one of them not less than 8 MWt capacity with co-generation system. At least one biomass plant shall successfully operate for a minimum of two heating seasons;
c) Average annual turnover of the tenderer as prime contractor (defined as billing for works in progress and completed) over the last 5 (five) years shall be not less than EUR 10 million.
d) The Tenderer shall demonstrate that it has access to, or has available, liquid assets, unencumbered real assets, lines of credit, and other financial means sufficient to meet the construction cash flow for the contract for a period of 14 weeks, estimated as not less than EUR 5 million equivalent, taking into account the tenderer's commitments for other contracts.

Joint venture must satisfy the following minimum qualification requirements:
a) The Joint venture must satisfy collectively all the above mentioned criteria, for which purpose the relevant figures of each partner will be added to arrive at the Joint venture total capacity
b) Each partner of the Joint venture shall meet not less than 20 per cent of all the qualifying criteria for the turnover and the availability of financial means as per the criteria specified under general experience and financial position above.
c) The lead partner of the Joint venture shall meet not less than 50 per cent of all the qualifying criteria for the turnover and the availability of financial means.
d) At least one partner shall satisfy the requirements for general and specific experience.

Tendering for contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank is open to firms from all countries. The proceeds of the Bank’s loan will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Tender documents may be obtained from the address below upon payment of a non-refundable fee of 200 EUR or equivalent in a convertible currency. The payment shall be sent to the following bank account:

Beneficiary customer:
IBAN: BA395620078037839968
Toplana a.d. Prijedor
Rudnička 66, Prijedor, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Account:
SWIFT BIC: RAZBBA22
NLB Razvojna banka a.d.
Milana Tepića 4, 7800 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Intermediary institution for payments in EUR:
SWIFT BIC: LJBASI2X
Nova Ljubljanska banka d.d.
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Scan of the bank transfer order shall be sent via e-mail to info@toplanapd.com, indicating the name and contact address of the prospective tenderer. Upon receiving the scan, the Employer will send electronic version of the Tender documents in reply. Upon receiving the payment, the Employer will send hardcopy of the Tender documents to the indicated contact address by courier, but no liability can be accepted for loss or late delivery.

A two stage tender procedure will be adopted and will proceed as follows:

(a) the First Stage tender will consist of a technical proposal only, without any reference to prices, and a list of any deviations to the technical and commercial conditions set forth in the tender documents or any alternative technical solutions a tenderer wishes to offer, and a justification therefor, provided always that such deviations or alternative solutions do not change the basic objectives of the project.  Following evaluation by the Employer of the First Stage tenders, the Employer will invite each tenderer who meets the qualification criteria and who has submitted a technically responsive tender to a clarification meeting. The proposals of all such tenderers will be reviewed at the meeting and all required amendments, additions, deletions and other adjustments will be noted and recorded in a Memorandum.  Only qualified tenderers submitting a technically responsive and acceptable First Stage tender will be invited to submit a Second Stage tender.

(b) the Second Stage tender will consist of an updated technical tender incorporating all changes required by the Employer as recorded in the Memorandum to the clarification meeting or as necessary to reflect any amendments to the tender documents issued subsequent to submission of the First Stage tender; and the commercial tender.

First Stage tenders must be delivered to the address below on or before 15 January 2015 at 10:00 am local time at which time they will be opened in the presence of the tenderers’ representatives who wish to attend.

All Second Stage tenders must be accompanied by a Tender Security of 300,000 EUR or its equivalent in a convertible currency, and must be delivered to the address below on or before the time and date of the submission deadline specified in the Letter of Invitation to submit Second Stage tenders, at which time they will be opened in the presence of the tenderers’ representatives who wish to attend.

Prospective tenderers may obtain further information from, and inspect and acquire the tender documents at, the following office:

CONTACTS

Toplana AD Prijedor