procurement notice

5636-GPN-17149

The National Electric Company – NEK-EAD (the “Employer”) intends using the proceeds of the grant funds provided by the “Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund” (the “KIDSF”), administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the “Bank”) and of its own financial sources towards the cost of the “Rehabilitation and Extension of the Power Transmission Network Project - substations Tzarevetz, Burgas, Metalurgichna”.

The project, which has a total estimated cost of EUR 14.6 million, includes the implementation of the following three projects:

(i)  Project „Rehabilitation and extension of s/s Tzarevetz 400/110/31,5 kV”
Procurement of equipment for the replacement and the extension of the 400 kV switchyard (400/110/31,5 kV equipment, shunt reactors, relay protections, control system); design works, procurement of materials, installation and erection works (foundations, steel structures, roads, cable channels, fences, commissioning and training).

(ii) Project „Rehabilitation and extension of s/s Burgas 400/110/31,5 kV”
Procurement of equipment for the replacement and the extension of the 400 kV switchyard (400/110/31,5 kV equipment, shunt reactors, relay protections, control system); design works, procurement of materials, installation and erection works (foundations, steel structures, roads, cable channels, fences, commissioning and training).

(iii) Project „Rehabilitation of s/s Metalurgichna 400/110/31,5 kV”
Procurement of equipment for the replacement of the 400 kV switchyard (400/110/31,5 kV equipment, shunt reactors, relay protections, control system); design works, procurement of materials, installation and erection works (foundations, steel structures, roads, cable channels, fences, commissioning and training).

The Contracts in reference shall be awarded in compliance with the EBRD Procurement Policies and Rules and will be open to firms that qualify under the Rules of the KIDS Fund: The eligible countries as at 1 November 2007 are: EU member states, Switzerland, all so-called PHARE countries and the EBRD's Countries of Operations.

Interested suppliers and contractors should contact:

Mrs. Ludmila Vitanova
Head of Investment Department
Natsionalna Elektricheska Kompania
5, “Vesletz” str.,
1040 Sofia
BULGARIA
Tel.: +359 2 9263 552
Fax: +359 2 986 12 88
E-mail: lvitanova@nek.bg