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RE-Invitation for Bid

1.      The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation shall allocate budget towards the civil works project for the construction of District offices and it is intended that part of the proceeds of this budget will be applied to eligible payments under the contract.

2.      EEPCO invites all eligible Contractor category of GC/BC class IV (4) and above with renewed license and tax registration for the year 2000 and Minister of Work and Urban Development (MOWUD) renewed registration certificate, who would be financial and technically capable to furnish the necessary material, labor and equipment to undertake Construction works of EEPCO Regional and District Office in various town listed below.

3.      The District office will include a G+1 main structure and a Guard house structure. All internal roads and parking lots will be paved with double surface asphalt treatment and all side walks will be paved with concrete payments.

4.      Bidders must be VAT registered and have certificate from Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. All Bidders who don’t have poor performance and negative remarks within the Corporation in the last one year can participate in the Bid.

5.      Any bidder can participate in all sites. Due to the urgency of the projects to give service as early as possible a maximum of three (sites) shall be awarded with the choice of the client upon the examination of bidder’s capacity that can able to carry on up to three sites simultaneously, presenting independent resource required for each site is necessary.

6.      The complete set of bidding documents can be purchased as of the date shown in the table above from EEPCO-Head Office, Procurement Division De Gaulle Square, Ground Floor Addis Ababa Ethiopia, and upon payment of non-refundable fee of Ethiopian Birr 500.

7.      Bidders may obtain further information form, EEPCO Regional and District Office Construction Project: Tel. 251-15 50 99 40 Or 515 41 64, Fax 251-11-551 42 56, Addis Ababa.

8.      A Pre-bid meeting will be conducted on Nov. 30/2008 at 9:30 A.M. local time at Electric Club near Mexico Square Addis Ababa.

9.      Bids should be submitted with ONE ORIGINAL AND THREE COPY for technical and financial proposals each in separate wax-sealed envelopes on the date and time specified above in eth table.

EEPCO Head Office
Procurement Division Ground Floor
De Gaulle Square
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

10.  Wax-sealed bids must be accompanied by 1% bid bond in the form of cash deposit, CPO bank guarantee which is payable on first written demand, but not exceeding Birr 100,000 which shall remain in force for 90 calendar days from the bid opening date. Bids must be delivered at EEPCO Head Office Addis Ababa, De Gualle Square Procurement Division, Ground Floor on or before 12:00 noon of the bid opening date.

11.  Bids will be opened in two stages. First envelopes containing technical proposals alone will be opened at EEPCo’s Club near Mexico Square on the date and time specified above in the presence of bidders or their legal representatives who choose to attend. Envelopes containing financial proposals will be kept sealed until the owner completes the technical evaluation. The Owner will inform the opening date of financial envelopes to all bidders.

12.   Bids shall be opened on the same day at EEPCO Electric Club Mexico Square, Addis Ababa at 2:00 P.M. in the presence of those bidders/representatives who wish to attend

13.  The eligible bidders shall read the tender documents particularly the ITB and Technical Specifications volume II which is given as soft copy before preparing BOQs.

14.  The Successful bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond in the sum of 10% of the bid sum.

15.   The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive informalities.